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Arts > Photo > UK > John Reardon ? - 2018
Ethiopia A woman looks at a government cluster bomb in Tigray in 1989
The photography of John Reardon The photographer John Reardon has died at the age of 66. Throughout his long and distinguished career he produced memorable images from home and abroad. Here is a selection of his work G Sat 28 Apr 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/28/
John Reardon ? - 2018
John started shooting for the Observer in the mid-1980s and covered domestic civil unrest and social hardship, as well as workaday newspaper jobs.
He travelled to Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, showing the reality of human suffering with great sympathy.
In 1994, he left for war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan, and the outstanding results, displayed sumptuously in the Observer Magazine, saw his work gain global recognition at the World Press Awards.
Shortly after his time in Kabul, John stopped travelling, to be closer to his family, and became picture editor of the Observer.
I was his deputy, tasked with peering into the nascent world wide web while he did the big stuff.
He strove to pack the paper with stark photojournalism.
On 1 May 1994, through sheer force of personality, he persuaded the editor to publish a shocking photograph by Luc Delahaye, showing a pile of bodies of slaughtered refugees near Kigali.
It helped the world focus on the unfolding tragedy in Rwanda.
But sometimes his focus was too intense.
He would agonise over the cropping of every mugshot.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/apr/28/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/29/
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