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1977 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1979 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1980 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1981 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1984 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1988 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1989 British Press Photographer of the
Year.
1994 International
Photographer of the Year (La Nation, Argentina).
1978 Photokina
Gold Medal.
1990 United
Nations Gold Medal (Photography).
1971 Press
Picture of the Year (U.K.).
1972 World
Press Photo Competition (Runner-up).
1978 World
Press Photo Competition (Runner-up).
1990 Royal
Newspaper Photographer of the Year.
1991 Kodak
Press Awards, Runner-up News and Feature sections.
1992 Kodak
Press Awards, overall winner.
1997 British
Press Photographer of the Year (Runner-up).
1998 British
Press Photographer of the Year (Runner-up).
2001 British
Airways London Eye Competition, overall winner.
2001 Finalist
Press Gazette Photographer of the Year.
2001 Lifetime
Achievement Award, Picture Editors Guild
(only the second time ever awarded).
1992
Honoured with an MBE for ÔServices to
journalism.Õ
Covered
most major wars, including Vietnam, East Pakistan/Bangladesh, Rhodesia, Beirut,
Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Croatia, and over a dozen visits to Bosnia.
Lived
rough for many weeks with Guerrilla fighters in Sudan, Nicaragua, and three
times in Afghanistan.
As
an assignment, hitchhiked on lorries along the ÔRoad of DeathÕ across Central
America.
Beaten
and imprisoned in Uganda by Idi Amin in what the Daily Express described on its
front-page headline as, ÔWorld exclusive pictures taken inside the black hole
of Kampala.Õ
Being
actually present inside the Grand Hotel, Brighton, when the IRA bomb exploded,
resulting in further world exclusive photographs.
Founder
of the Press Photographers Association
(now
The British Press PhotographersÕ Association.)
2001
Retired from Daily Express as Chief
Photographer (since 1985) to pursue a freelance career.
2005
Made a life member of The British Press
PhotographersÕ Association.
2011 Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal
Photographic Society.
Patron
of The Ian Parry Scholarship.
Trustee
of the Jubilee Campaign.
2007 Married Anita DÕAttellis, pianist.
A
member of the London Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Born
in Llanelli, Wales.