Salvador Dali May 5th, 1959 by George Elam
Salvador Dalí on a Cross-Channel Steamer, 5 May 1959 Photograph by George Elam This striking photograph of Salvador Dalí was taken on 5 May 1959 by Daily Mail photographer George Elam. Dalí is pictured aboard the Maid of Orléans, a Continental steamer crossing the English Channel en route to London. George Elam began his […]
Celestial Fracture 23/02/2021
Celestial Fracture Saturn Mosaic Annie Maunder Prize Winner 2021 The Celestial Fracture Saturn mosaic won the 2021 Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation at the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards. This striking artwork reimagines Saturn using publicly available space data and creative photographic techniques. The Royal Museums Greenwich host the annual competition, […]
Insight Investment 2019 Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Judging the Royal Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year – and the Story Behind “Black Saturn” I was honoured to be part of the judging team for this year’s Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. An impressive exhibition of the shortlisted and winning images is currently on display […]
Photographer’s Tale: Donald Campbell, 4 January 1967
On the 4th of January 1967 the eyes of the world were drawn to a cold, deep stretch of water in the English Lake District. Donald Campbell was the holder of eight world speed records and was the only person to set both land and water world speed records. Following in his father’s footsteps, Sir […]
Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash, 8th October 1952 by George Phillips
The Reverend John Richards stands in the mangled wreckage of the overnight express from Perth, a local passenger train and an Express train heading from Euston to Liverpool. Around 1000 people were aboard the three trains and 112 people died in the crash and 340 were injured. It is the worst peace time rail crash in the […]
Shooting The Sky, At Night
These brilliant pictures are taken by top newspaper photographer Roger Jackson. Here he gives some useful tips on how to take pictures of fireworks. More work from Roger can be seen on the Fleet Streets Finest page HERE. So how do we achieve a result like Roger, here he tells us all how to … […]
And the Winner is…
Fleet Streets Finest, was this year lucky enough to be invovled in the 2018 UK Picture Editors Guild Awards. The Guild Awards are the premier awards for Press Photographers in the UK and held at a prestigious event at the Head Quarters for the Honourable Artillery Company in City Road, London. Over two hundred press […]
New Photographer – Andrew Fox
Fleet Street’s Finest are proud to announce a new member, Andrew Fox. Andrew began his career as a trainee on the Birmingham Post & Mail newspaper, after completing the National Council for the Training of Journalist’s photojournalism course in Sheffield in 1988. While still a trainee, Andrew won the Midlands Press Photographer of the Year […]
Fleet Street’s Finest – John Rogers
Fleet Street’s Finest are proud to announce a new member, John Rogers. John grew up near the Lace markets in Nottingham, now living in London, I bought my first camera at the age of 12 and a book by American photographer Andreas Feininger ‘The Complete Photographer’ which ‘became my bible’. After working an NCTJ apprenticeship […]
Fleet Street’s Finest – Brian Harris
Brian Harris has been an editorial, news and current affairs photographer for more than 47 years. Fascinated in his teens by the alchemy of the darkroom in the 1960s Brian started to combine his school work with photographing weddings and football matches in his native Essex. A job as a runner at the Fox Photos […]