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Tom Stoddart is an award-winning British photojournalist whose work has appeared in the most notable international magazines and newspapers. He is widely regarded by editors and his peers as one of the world’s most experienced and respected photographers. His international frontline assignments included almost every major conflict and natural disaster over four decades, from wars to earthquakes and from the fall of the Berlin Wall to pandemics. Stoddart’s work is notable for its humanity, putting the casualties of strife to the fore. Described by one of his editors as “still pictures that move” Stoddart’s work is exemplary in that it demonstrates the courage, strength and endurance of those suffering terrible hardship most. His images empower public opinion and remind us all that in a precarious world, we are never far away from sharing a similar fate. His photographs have proved so powerful they have moved politicians to act and end conflict, such as between warring militias in the Lebanon where his photographs of women being routinely shot by snipers forced an almost immediate cessation of the conflict. His photographic career began with a provincial newspaper in his native North East of England before he moved to London where he quickly impressed picture editors of the foremost newspapers and magazines and won frontline assignments the troubled 80s culminating in Desert Storm.
In 1992 he was seriously injured in heavy fighting in Bosnia. After a year of recovery, he produced a powerful feature on the aftermath of the Mississippi floods and, later that year, an award-winning photo-essay on the harsh training regime of Chinese Olympic Child Gymnasts. In December 1993, Stoddart returned to Sarajevo to report on the hardship of life in the city during a freezing winter under siege. Tom’s acclaimed in-depth work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic blighting sub-Saharan Africa won the POY World Understanding Award in 2003. In the same year, his pictures of British Royal Marines in combat, during hostilities in Iraq, was awarded the Larry Burrows Award for Exceptional War Photography. His book iWITNESS was honoured as the best photography book published in the US and his first major exhibition in London in 2012 attracted nearly a quarter of a million viewers. Stoddart is the recipient of Lifetime Achievement awards from this peers and his new book, Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance and Defiance will be published in October 2020 by ACC Art Books and Iconic Images.
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PREMIUM PRINT Meliha Varešanović defies Bosnian Serb sniper bullets and mortar fire in high heels, pearls and a smart floral dress in the Dobrinja neighbourhood of Sarajevo, June 1995. Media Name: TS_PJ016
A teenage girl and Bosnian fighter with an AK-47 flirt on a Sarajevo street corner during a break in shelling, July 1992. Media Name: TS_PJ012
Girlfriends gather to exchange make-up tips to raise their spirits during a break in shelling, June 1994. Media Name: TS_PJ013
Women shelter from gunfire behind a UN armoured personnel carrier asthey cross ‘Sniper Alley’ during the siege of Sarajevo in 1995. Media Name: TS_PJ030
Five-year-old Amra runs into the arms of her mother Sedija Katica, near Sarajevo’s frontline, June 1995; Sedija lost both legs after being hit by a grenade during the hostilities. Media Name: TS_PJ033
A young girl stares silently through a shattered window, August 1992, as the first United Nations convoy in four months reaches Dobrinja, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo that eight years earlier housed athletes for the 1984 Winter Olympics. Media Name: TS_PJ029
A young Bosnian couple, Eldin and Samra, share a loving embrace during a rare ceasefire in 1993 and say, “We love each other. Please give us back our future. Stop this crazy war.” Media Name: TS_PJ032
67-year-old Antonia Arapovic hugs her neighbour’s child in the darkness of an underground cellar in Sarajevo during a heavy mortar bombardment; as well as snipers’ bullets, Sarajevans faced daily shelling with 3,777 mortar and artillery shells raining down on a single day in July 1993. Media Name: TS_PJ031
A West German girl leaps to reach the top of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate to witness history being made on the morning of 10th November, 1989. Media Name: TS_PJ021
A jublilant man waves the German national flag under the gaze of suspicious East-German border guards on top of the Berlin Wall on the morning of 10th November 1989. Media Name: TS_PJ025
The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by the hands of crowds of determined people on the morning of 10th November 1989. Media Name: TS_PJ001
Armed guards and dogs patrol the perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common, December 1983; women protestors cut through sections of the barbed wire in protest at the deployment of nuclear cruise missiles. Media Name: TS_PJ026
A woman is dragged away by police at RAF Greenham Common near Newbury in Berkshire, December 1983, as her friend pleads with police to release her. Media Name: TS_PJ005
Special Forces blowing up a landing strip used by cartels to transport cocaine from a coca-processing lab in the heart of the Colombian jungle, November 1996. Media Name: TS_PJ003
With silent dignity an old woman waits for aid to arrive at her stricken village near Anjar, Gujarat, after the earthquake of 2001. Media Name: TS_PJ027
Women carry water through the decimated streets of Anjar, India after the most powerful earthquake to hit the country for more than half a century struck at 8.46 a.m. on 26th January 2001. Media Name: TS_PJ008
A child scatters pigeons as she runs through the ruins of Bhachau, one of the towns worst hit by the earthquake, February 2001. Media Name: TS_PJ024
A girl experiences the joy of sight for the first time in years when bandages are removed following an operation to remove cataracts in a clinic in Madurai, southern India, February 1999. Her operation was facilitated by the international charity Sightsavers working globally to help those afflicted by many conditions causing sight loss. Media Name: TS_PJ034
Recruits looking to join the United States Marine Corp. Those who survive the training earn the right to call themselves one of “The Few and the Proud”. Parris Island, South Carolina, November 1998. Media Name: TS_PJ007
The women gradually come to respect, even adore their drill instructors, but for a terrifying 15 minutes recruits are forced to take off masks in a gas chamber to learn to overcome panic at being engulfed in tear gas. Parris Island, South Carolina, November 1998. Media Name: TS_PJ006
A young ANC supporter peers from behind a poster bearing the image of Nelson Mandela during a rally held days before Mandela was elected as South Africa’s first black president in April,1994. Media Name: TS_PJ002
A woman with a Harrods bag stands knitting in a queue alongside domestic servants, waiting, like millions of South Africans, to vote on 27th April 1994, in the country’s first-ever multiracial parliamentary elections. Media Name: TS_PJ015
Standing in line, like millions of South Africans, to vote on 27th April 1994, in the country’s first-ever multiracial parliamentary elections. Media Name: TS_PJ014
An extraordinary young gymnast practices her leaps at Wuhan School of Sport, July 1993, where dozens of children with sporting prowess endured harsh training to enable them to become sporting champions. Media Name: TS_PJ004
A young gymnast training at Wuhan School of Sport. In China each year thousands of children, some as young as four, are enrolled in the schools and begin the harsh training regimes designed to turn them into Olympic winners, July 1993. Media Name: TS_PJ023
Prima ballerina Natalia Makarova with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet on stage, March 1989, during her last London performance; after becoming the first ballerina to defect from the Soviet Union in 1970 she said, “What is important is my work, my art. That is why I have taken my leap to freedom!” Media Name: TS_PJ022
A cordial meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II a ball to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president, October 1979. Media Name: TS_PJ018
Lady Diana Spencer, outside her Earls Court flat in London, is startled as she stalls her car shortly before her engagement to Prince Charles is announced, November 1980. Media Name: TS_PJ009
Couples kiss in front of Russian painter Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel’s famous graffiti painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love on a section of the former Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, July 2014. Media Name: TS_PJ020
A young girl wearing her mother’s shoes holds hands with her sister as policemen from the Royal Ulster Constabulary control vehicles at a checkpoint in Belfast, May 1991, during The Troubles of Northern Ireland. Media Name: TS_PJ017
A couple of ‘flower girls’ conduct a peaceful environmental protest in front of Metropolitan police officers during an anti-capitalism rally in Trafalgar Square, London on May Day, 2001. Media Name: TS_PJ019
A Kurdish mother arrives at Isikveren camp, Turkey, carrying all her belongings and her baby in a plastic bowl after fleeing Saddam Hussein’s forces. Media Name: TS_PJ035
Back breaking work for a woman and her children during harvest time in a poor rural area of Albania, December 1991. During the forty years of hardline communist rule that had just ended ruthless dictator Enver Hoxha isolated Albania from the rest of the world, turning its people into the poorest in Europe. The paranoid president built thousands of concrete bunkers across the country to fight a potential invading army while his people starved and thousands were imprisoned in forced labour camps for crimes such as listening to the BBC World Service. Media Name: TS_PJ038
A young girl digs for water in the parched earth of Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, Sudan, March 2012. “Getting water from the holes is very difficult and dangerous. I’m afraid of the bees and snakes. Life here is difficult,” said one 16-yearold girl trying to scoop a cup of muddy water for her and her family to drink. Jamam housed more than 36,000 vulnerable people fleeing their homes in Blue Nile State to escape on going fighting between Khartoum’s government troops and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army. Media Name: TS_PJ037
A rare moment of joy between siblings at Ajiep feeding centre in Bahr el Ghazal province, Sudan, during the devastating 1998 famine. Media Name: TS_PJ028
A smiling girl collects plastic bags and bottles on a rubbish dump near Lusaka, Zambia, July 2002; many of Zambia’s poor scrape a living by collecting and selling discarded items from city dumps. Media Name: TS_PJ039
A mother guides her children through a line of Slovenian police at the Timovec border crossing with Croatia. Long delays caused by government travel restrictions produced a build up of tension and anger as people tied to make the difficult journey to find better lives in Western Europe, October 2015. Media Name:TS_PJ036
Don McCullin’s hands and camera, November 2009. McCullin is internationally known as a photojournalist and recognised as one of the world’s greatest photographers of war and urban strife. Media Name: TS_PJ010
Photographer Don McCullin photographed at dawn near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. In recent years McCullin has turned away from conflict and concentrated on landscape and still-life images, November 2009. Media Name: TS_PJ011
Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance & Defiance Typical warzone coverage has two focuses. The fighters, predominantly young men; and the victims - everyone else. This book calls this familiar narrative into question. Without glamorising or sanitising the harsh realities of our world, it presents the endurance and iron will of women in situations of war, poverty and hardship. Throughout his career, award winning photographer Tom Stoddart has shown us the remarkable resilience of all sorts of people from across the world. With Extraordinary Women, he hones his focus on the female perspective.
• A photographic collection that salutes the strong will of women through times of war, poverty and hardship. • Photographic assignments from The Balkans, The Sudan, Mozambique, South Africa, India, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Albania, Turkey, China, America, Ireland, and much more. • Foreword by Angelina Jolie, introduction by Robin Morgan, former Editor in Chief of the Sunday Times Magazine (1991-2009). • Includes War on Women, an essay by Marie Colvin.
His photojournalistic approach travels through the recent decades, with images displaying courage and freedom, the working lives of everyday women and the frontline of war. Each photo serves as a testament to the agency and strength of those who are so often portrayed as vulnerable and helpless. Tom Stoddart has built a reputation for compelling work, and this collection is especially remarkable for its uncompromising celebration of humanity.
Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance & Defiance Price: £30 ISBN: 9781788840989 Size: 268 mm x 245 mm Pages: 272 Pages 208 b&w photos throughout
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