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
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth, 1980-1984. Published in Home Front, by Reardon and Derek Bishton
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth
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Birmingham, UK
Muhammad Ali in Handsworth in August 1983: ‘I’m saying this from the bottom of my heart – I’ve been to Africa, Asia, China, Russia and all over the States, and I’ve never had acceptance better than I’ve had here.’
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Sri Lanka
Refugees from the fighting in the civil war pictured in June 1986
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Sri Lanka
An 18-month-old Tamil boy recovering in hospital on the outskirts of Jaffna, following amputation of his right arm after being injured by Indian gunfire at Chunnakam in October 1987
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Ethiopia
The remains of an Ethiopian Airbus plane destroyed by government MiGs in Axum, Tigray, in December 1988
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Ethiopia
A woman looks at a government cluster bomb in Tigray in 1989
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Kuwait
From a 1991 photo essay entitledKuwait – The Cost of War
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Kuwait
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Kabul, Afghanistan
A 12-year-old boy weeps for his father, killed in the streets patrolled by warlord Gen Dostum’s men in 1993
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Afghanistan
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London
The author Beryl Bainbridge photographed at her home for an interview in the Observer
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UK
Labour members campaign ahead of the May 1997 general election
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Bournemouth
Bathers in 1998
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Macedonia
Refugees from the war in Kosovo on the border with Albania in April 1999
Albania
Refugees from the Kosovo war use plastic sheeting for tents on the fringes of Kukës in April 1999
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Southport, UK
A National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in September 2000
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New York
Wall Street re-opens after the 11 September 2001 attacks
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New York
On the Staten Island ferry after the 11 September 2001 attacks
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UK
Chef with lamb, taken in March 2002
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UK
Chefs’ Last Supper in October 2003
Fergus Henderson, photographed in September 2004 -
Gilbert & George, photographed in January 2006 All photographs © John Reardon
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John Reardon, March 1995
Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer
- Via: The Guardian
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
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth, 1980-1984. Published in Home Front, by Reardon and Derek Bishton
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth
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Birmingham, UK
Daily life in Handsworth
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Birmingham, UK
Muhammad Ali in Handsworth in August 1983: ‘I’m saying this from the bottom of my heart – I’ve been to Africa, Asia, China, Russia and all over the States, and I’ve never had acceptance better than I’ve had here.’
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Sri Lanka
Refugees from the fighting in the civil war pictured in June 1986
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Sri Lanka
An 18-month-old Tamil boy recovering in hospital on the outskirts of Jaffna, following amputation of his right arm after being injured by Indian gunfire at Chunnakam in October 1987
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Ethiopia
The remains of an Ethiopian Airbus plane destroyed by government MiGs in Axum, Tigray, in December 1988
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Ethiopia
A woman looks at a government cluster bomb in Tigray in 1989
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Kuwait
From a 1991 photo essay entitledKuwait – The Cost of War
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Kuwait
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Kabul, Afghanistan
A 12-year-old boy weeps for his father, killed in the streets patrolled by warlord Gen Dostum’s men in 1993
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Afghanistan
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London
The author Beryl Bainbridge photographed at her home for an interview in the Observer
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UK
Labour members campaign ahead of the May 1997 general election
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Bournemouth
Bathers in 1998
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Macedonia
Refugees from the war in Kosovo on the border with Albania in April 1999
Albania
Refugees from the Kosovo war use plastic sheeting for tents on the fringes of Kukës in April 1999
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Southport, UK
A National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in September 2000
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New York
Wall Street re-opens after the 11 September 2001 attacks
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New York
On the Staten Island ferry after the 11 September 2001 attacks
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UK
Chef with lamb, taken in March 2002
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UK
Chefs’ Last Supper in October 2003
Fergus Henderson, photographed in September 2004 -
Gilbert & George, photographed in January 2006 All photographs © John Reardon
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John Reardon, March 1995
Photograph: Jane Bown for the Observer
- Via: The Guardian
