Thursday, November 17, 2016

Tom Soddart


Tom Stoddart was born on 1953 in Morpeth United Kingdom. Also in1978 he moved to London to be a freelance photography for the Sunday times and as well for times magazine. Furthermore  as Tom's life continued in the photo business. he witness important and tragic  key points in his life. for example he was present for the election of president Nelson Mandela and for  the fall of the great Berlin wall . but he has also witness war Like the war of Lebanon and as well of images of war in Iraq caused by Saddam Hussien. 

As his started  to grow up he then won a ton of awards from the world press photo award for general news and for daily life and as well  for sports. he won the awards of general news in 2002,1999,1995 and the daily life award he won in 1992, 1993 and for the sports award he won in 1994 for young Chinese gymnst competition. 

Finally Tom also won the Larry burrows Award for excipotinol war photography. and he won that because he took photos of British royal marines in combat during hostillites in Iraq. but he also is know as on of the most respected photo journalists out there. He now is currently 64 years old and is represented by Getty images and works for them as well; so he can have the right resources to create powerful photo essays and