For four decades, photojournalist Tom Stoddart covered Lebanon, apartheid’s end, the Berlin Wall, Sarajevo, Gulf Wars… He worked in B&W throughout his career.
Photo: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by crowds, November 1989. Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
06 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News
ALL PHOTOS: Photograph: Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty Images
Serbia, 2015
Tom Stoddart in Serbia while on assignment for the Annenberg Space for Photography in LA
Diana Spencer, 1980
Diana Spencer is startled after stalling her new red Mini Metro outside her Earls Court flat in London just days before her engagement to Prince Charles was announced
North Atlantic, 1981
Greenpeace campaigners are sprayed with hoses by crew members of the Gem as they try to stop barrels of nuclear waste being dropped into the Atlantic. Greenpeace exposed the dumping of nuclear waste in the North Atlantic, 1,000km south-west of the Cornish coast, by several European nations
Arrest at Greenham Common, 1983
A demonstrator is arrested as a friend pleads for her release during protests by anti-nuclear campaigners opposed to the deployment of nuclear missiles at Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire
Demonstrator and police, Orgreave, 1984
A lone demonstrator rests as police form lines to protect a coking plant at Orgreave near Sheffield. The Battle of Orgreave, when up to 5,000 miners fought with police, was one of the most violent episodes of the 1984 miners’ strike
Beirut, Lebanon, 1987
Boys armed with AK-47s and RPGs at Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp
Clapham, south London, 1988
Firefighters and police work to free the dead and rescue the injured from derailed carriages after a rail crash near Clapham Junction. Thirty-five people were killed and more than 100 injured
Eton, 1990
Boys from Eton college prepare to show their artworks at an end of year show
A young gymnast practising her leaps at Wuhan School of Sport, where dozens of children with sporting potential stay in dormitories away from their families. In the 1950s Mao Zedong decided that sporting success was important to bring international glory and prestige to China. Thousands of children, some as young as four, enrolled in the thousands of schools established and began the harsh training regimes designed to turn them into Olympic winners. If they succeeded in winning Olympic gold their reward was a $25,000 payment from the government
ANC rally, South Africa, 1994
A young supporter at an ANC rally in South Africa peers from behind a sign bearing the image of Nelson Mandela in April 1994
A boy looking out of a tram passing damaged buildings
Sarajevo, 1994A small boy stares out of a tram car as it passes burnt out apartments and houses in Sarajevo. During the 47 months between the spring of 1992 and February 1996, the people of Sarajevo endured the longest siege Europe has witnessed since the end of the second world war. More than 10,600 people were killed with a further 56,000 wounded or maimed
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1994
A woman knits in the queue to vote on the day Nelson Mandela was elected president
