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Category: Obituaries

Ron Galella, Celebrity-Hounding Photographer, Dies at 91 – The New York Times

Ron Galella, Celebrity-Hounding Photographer, Dies at 91
He personified the paparazzi — brazen and relentless in chasing the famous, particularly Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But his pictures also came to be admired.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/business/media/ron-galella-dead.html
Mr. Galella was called a creep, a stalker and worse when he began shooting pictures of celebrities in the 1960s, before mass circulation magazines like People and Us made the presence of paparazzi like him ubiquitous — and a full generation before phone cameras and websites like TMZ made celebrity stalking the pastime of legions.

May 2, 2022
Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87 | Italy | The Guardian

Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87
Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/letizia-battaglia-photojournalist-who-documented-mafia-crimes-dies-aged-87
Armed only with her Leica camera and mounted on a Vespa, Battaglia scoured the alleyways of Palermo during the 1970s and 1980s photographing the victims of mafia murders and the internal wars between rival clans. As a result she received several death threats.

April 15, 2022
Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82
She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/doris-derby-dead.html
“I had a quest to show what the average person was doing,” she told the Southern Oral History Program in 2011, part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. “I had a quest to show our culture in total, not just a little bit, or negative stereotypes.”

April 12, 2022
Lessons Learned From Michele McNally – The New York Times

Lessons Learned From Michele McNally
Two photographers share how Michele McNally, who shepherded a new age of photography at The New York Times, touched their lives and work.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/insider/lessons-learned-from-michele-mcnally.html
She wanted to teach me photo editing to better inform my photography. For months, we met at 7 a.m. to look through 75 years of Fortune magazine photography at what is now called the Life Picture Collection. She’d explain to me her vision of a successful frame, what she looked for in a photographic composition and why some images had become icons. We’d sift through the hundreds of folders each morning before the workday began.

April 6, 2022
Dirck Halstead, Photojournalist Who Captured History, Dies at 85 – The New York Times

Dirck Halstead, Photojournalist Who Captured History, Dies at 85
Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, he documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/business/media/dirck-halstead-dead.html
Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, he documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more.

March 29, 2022
Sumy Sadurni, Photojournalist Whose Focus Was East Africa, Dies at 32 – The New York Times

Sumy Sadurni, Photojournalist Whose Focus Was East Africa, Dies at 32
She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/business/media/sumy-sadurni-dead.html
She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.

March 21, 2022
Hiram Maristany, 76, Dies; ‘People’s Photographer’ of Spanish Harlem – The New York Times

Hiram Maristany, 76, Dies; ‘People’s Photographer’ of Spanish Harlem
He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/hiram-maristany-dead.html
He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.

March 17, 2022
Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66 — Blind Magazine

Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66 — Blind Magazine
Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/michele-mcnally-first-new-york-times-photography-director-dies-at-66/
Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.

March 3, 2022
Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66 – The New York Times

Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66
The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/media/michele-mcnally-dead.html
The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.

March 2, 2022
Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 – The New York Times

Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87
He documented the civil rights movement and subjects as diverse as narcotics users, migrant workers and movie stars, seeking to capture their emotional heart.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/steve-schapiro-dead.html
Steve Schapiro, a photojournalist and social documentarian who bore witness to some of the nation’s most significant political and cultural moments and movements, starting in the 1960s with the historic struggle for racial equality across the Jim Crow South, died on Jan. 15 at his home in Chicago. He was 87.

January 27, 2022
Photojournalist shot to death outside his home in Tijuana – The San Diego Union-Tribune

Photojournalist shot to death outside his home in Tijuana
Margarito Martínez Esquivel, a Tijuana photojournalist who covered police and security issues, was killed Monday
via San Diego Union-Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2022-01-17/photojournalist-death-tijuana
Martínez, 49, was beloved by colleagues and known as fearless. Last year, he documented a shootout between two groups, putting his own safety at risk. Journalist chat groups for Baja California were flooded with messages of grief and support on Monday afternoon.

January 18, 2022
Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87 | Blind

Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/steve-schapiro-chronicler-of-20th-century-america-dies-at-87-en
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.

January 18, 2022
Sabine Weiss, Figure of Humanist Photography, Dies at 97 | Blind

Sabine Weiss, Figure of Humanist Photography, Dies at 97
Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. The last representative of French humanist photography, whose work was exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles last summer, died today at the age of 97. Blind republishes the profile that was dedicated to her on this occasion.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/sabine-weiss-figure-of-humanist-photography-dies-at-97-en
Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. The last representative of French humanist photography, whose work was exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles last summer, died today at the age of 97. Blind republishes the profile that was dedicated to her on this occasion.

January 4, 2022
Photojournalist in Myanmar dies in military custody a week after arrest | Myanmar | The Guardian

Photojournalist in Myanmar dies in military custody a week after arrest
Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military rule
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/photojournalist-in-myanmar-dies-in-military-custody-a-week-after-arrest
Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military rule

December 16, 2021
Berlin Wall to Blair’s battlebus – Tom Stoddart’s career in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/18/berlin-wall-blair-battlebus-tom-stoddart-career-in-pictures
The renowned photojournalist, who has died aged 68, covered major international stories including conflict in Lebanon, apartheid’s end in South Africa, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the siege of Sarajevo and wars in the Gulf. His work, which spanned four decades, was both powerful and beautifully observed. He continued to work in black and white throughout his career

November 18, 2021
Tom Stoddart 1953-2021: award-winning photojournalist in his own words | Digital Camera World

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/tom-stoddart-1953-2021-award-winning-photojournalist-in-his-own-words
One of the best photojournalists of his time, Tom Stoddart has just died aged 68. To remember his 50 years we are running an interview with Tom from earlier this year, that was originally published in Digital Camera magazine.

November 18, 2021
Remembering Tom Stoddart – Amateur Photographer

Remembering Tom Stoddart

We are deeply saddened to report the death of Tom Stoddart, one of the finest documentary photographers and photojournalists the UK has ever produced. Tom, 68, died today after a brave struggle with cancer.

November 18, 2021
Edward Keating, Times Photographer at Ground Zero, Dies at 65 – The New York Times

With his hand-rolled cigarettes, typical stubble and a Leica slung around his neck, Mr. Keating could give off a roguish air. Some colleagues considered him “a talented if mercurial lensman who sometimes behaved like a hotdogger,” the journalist Lloyd Grove wrote in The Washington Post in 2003. Mr. Keating acknowledged to The Post that he had twice been suspended by The Times for infractions unrelated to his work. His photography led to a final dust-up with the paper.

September 30, 2021
Nick Oza, Arizona Republic photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, dies

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona-republic/2021/09/28/nick-oza-arizona-republic-photographer-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dies/5893454001/
Nick Oza, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who produced stark images of resilience and triumph in the face of natural and man-made adversity, has died. He was 57.

September 28, 2021
Reuters photographer died after being left behind, Afghan general says

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/afghanistan-conflict-reuters-siddiqui/
Danish Siddiqui was with soldiers on the front line of an Afghan Special Forces clash with the Taliban. New reporting, and his last photographs, cast light on his final hours, on the collapse of the Afghan military, and on the risks faced by journalists who cover conflict.

August 29, 2021