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Eamonn McCabe

September 2022

  • Jermaine Briffa was just four when he provided a small but enthusiastic audience as the Brighton Punch and Judy man set up, ready for the school holidays. The child was so engrossed in his one-to-one conversation with Mr Punch, he ignored Roger Bamber bearing down on him with an 18mm lens.The picture was used by the Guardian to mark the start of the summer holiday season in 1992 and went on to win several awards. It was part of Bamber's portfolio when he won Ilford Press Photographer of the Year for 1992 and was used for the Ilford poster campaign "That's The Way To Do It!" Ten years later, Jermaine's mother wrote to the Guardian to say that the picture had come to mean something very special to her. She said: "Shortly after the picture was taken Jermaine was taken ill with encephalitis. He was in hospital for a further three weeks whilst he re-learnt how to eat,drink,talk and walk. The following seven years have been a constant battle for Jermaine against severe migraine attacks and epilepsy but throughout all if this he has always tried his best. He is now 12 years old getting on 20!I am writing as a very proud mother; proud that my son has coped so well with his illness and proud that he is in such an emotional photograph.

    Roger Bamber obituary

    Photojournalist who covered war, politics and music for newspapers from the Sun to the Guardian

January 2019

  • Mary Tyler Moore with Tom Conti

    Hugh McIlvanney: a night at the Algonquin with the master of prose

    Hugh McIlvanney switched effortlessly from boxing to Broadway in his search for a story

May 2018

  • Boxer Sylvester Mittee taping his hands prior to a training session at Frank Warren's gym in King's Cross, London. Taken 1984.

    Guardian Print Shop
    Own a limited-edition print from photographer Eamonn McCabe

    Our former head of photography the award-winning sports photographer Eamonn McCabe looks back at some of his favourite sporting images from the 1970s and 80s

August 2017

  • John Berger at home in paris in 1999

    Books blog
    Ways of seeing John Berger

    A new exhibition celebrates Berger’s vision through the drawings that were given to him. The room is filled with affection, writes photographer Eamonn McCabe

March 2017

  • Aberfan - the next morning by Peter Johns GNM Archive Ref PNJ-2-1

    Peter Johns obituary

    Guardian photographer whose distinctive style helped to define a new wave of British photojournalism in the 1960s
  • DB*3580400<br>A striking miner faces a line of police at the Orgreave coking plant during the miners’ strike, June 1984. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) voted to return to work on 3 March 1985 following one of the most fiercely fought industrial disputes of the century. This iconic image taken by Don McPhee at the Battle of Orgreave captured the hostility between strikers and the police.

    How I see Britain: photographs that define the country

    Former Guardian picture editor Eamonn McCabe’s TV series Britain in Focus has been charting the history of photography in the UK. Here, Irvine Welsh, Sadiq Khan, Jeanette Winterson, Nadav Kander and others pick the shots that sum up Britishness for them
  • Eamonn McCabe in Victorian dress in Edward Reeves’s studio in Lewes.

    From art to selfies – my lifelong affair with photography

    Observer photographer Eamonn McCabe reflects on his career and his new TV series

March 2016

  • Bradford Football Club in 1988

    What’s in a name? Just ask Bradford’s National Media Museum why the crowds dried up

    Eamonn McCabe
    Moving the museum’s remarkable photography collection to London won’t reverse the slump in numbers. There’s a far simpler solution

December 2015

  • Lemmy in the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2004.

    Eamonn McCabe on Lemmy: He sent me to buy his favourite tipple, Jack Daniels

    Eamonnn McCabe writes: We arranged to meet at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where Marilyn Monroe met Joe DiMaggio

September 2015

  • mike king

    Other lives
    Mike King obituary

    Photographer who took the sharpest and most perfectly exposed shot of Diego Maradona receiving the World Cup

May 2015

  • Juventus fans Heysel disaster

    Heysel tragedy: ‘I have a box of prints from that night. They are my ghosts’

    Thirty years ago I went to Brussels to cover the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus for the Observer but I quickly went from being a sports photographer to being a news photographer

December 2014

  • Jane Bown in 2006.

    Jane Bown obituary

    World-renowned photographer whose career on the Observer spanned six decades

July 2014

  • A member of South Africa's neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) begs for his life, Bophuthatswana, March 1994

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 30 July 1994: Photojournalist Kevin Carter dies

    Originally published in the Guardian on 30 July 1994: Obituary: Award-winning photographer kills himself, haunted by the horrors he witnessed during his short and brilliant career

January 2014

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1957 Leica selfie

    Happy 100th birthday, Leica!

    As the world's original mobile camera turns 100, top Guardian photographers send their birthday messages to the little black box that changed their world

October 2013

  • Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open 2006

    Tommy Hindley obituary

    Sports photographer best known for his shots of tennis matches, who also covered the World Cup and several Olympics

June 2013

  • National Media Museum in Bradford

    The Northerner
    Bradford's National Media Museum: what does 'media' mean anyway?

    With the Science Museum's northern outpost facing closure, Guardian photographer Eamonn McCabe, who was a photography fellow in the 1980s, shares his love of the museum – if not its new name

November 2012

  • A new landscape made by BMX bikers in Orford, Suffolk

    Photography: a Guardian masterclass
    Landscape photography: Eamonn McCabe

    Good landscape photography does not require epic surroundings, says Eamonn McCabe: beauty can be found on your doorstep if your eyes are open to it

October 2011

  • Kodachrome

    Don't take my Kodak away

    Eamonn McCabe

    Eamonn McCabe: Its name is synonymous with all that's good about photography. Yet as film makes a comeback, Kodak is struggling to survive

June 2010

  • Westminster Chic

    Brian Duffy obituary

    Photographer whose stylish images helped define the spirit of the swinging 60s

January 2010

  • Freud's painting Interior at Paddington

    Harry Diamond obituary

    Photographer who snapped Freud, Bacon and the bohemians of Soho

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