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As regular readers may already be aware, this year marks the 50th anniversary of esteemed photojournalist Tom Stoddart\u2019s<\/a> entry into an industry on which he has left an indelible mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We last saw Tom at the AP Awards in February, where he received a standing ovation while he picked up the Exceptional Achievement in Photography award. At the time, Covid-19 was pretty much an abstract threat in the UK. We had little idea how many things would change and how vastly. We\u2019d spoken about the book he\u2019d been working on, and over the past few months I\u2019ve found myself hoping it wouldn\u2019t be another casualty of an industry all but decimated by the virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, Tom\u2019s been ploughing on and the launch date is almost upon us. In my mind, the book has been in the works for a year or so, but Tom would argue that it\u2019s been in the making for the best part of the past half-century. Speaking to him remotely \u2013 as pretty much all interviews are conducted these days \u2013 from his home in the North East, he tells me, \u2018I wanted to do something to mark the occasion, and someone at Iconic Images \u2013 Robin Morgan \u2013 said, \u201cyou\u2019ve photographed an awful lot of women over your assignments \u2013 this is a great time to promote women in society\u201d and that got me thinking and looking through my archive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve always been a passionate believer that when the chips are down, when things are really tough, that it\u2019s the women and girls in families that put their shoulders to the wheel, show courage and get things done. When I started to look through my work, it became obvious that I had an awful lot of images that speak to that.<\/p>\n

\u2018Then I got the chance of a book with ACC Art \u2013 Iconic Images are part of the collaboration. I wanted to make a high-quality book that is a tribute and a homage to women, not just in conflict, but in extreme circumstances.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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Every year, thousands of women join the ranks of the United States Marine Corp, the US military elite<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Hard choices<\/strong>
\nDozens of photography books are released every year, and whenever I speak to the photographers and editors behind them, it\u2019s plainly obvious that the vast majority of them are a real labour of love. The hardest part for those with careers spanning the decades is often narrowing down a choice of imagery from an extensive archive. \u2018There were some photographs that instantly fitted the bill, and others that I had to think back in my memory and think why does this fit in,\u2019 Tom says.<\/p>\n

\u2018I didn\u2019t want to just do, you know, here\u2019s pictures of women that I\u2019ve photographed over the years. A lot of the pictures have memories and stories behind them. It was a case of going through everything, editing it down, and editing it down again. \u2018I worked with a very good designer, Stephen Reid, the designer at Iconic Images and formerly of The Sunday Times. I don\u2019t do many books, I don\u2019t churn them out, so I want it to be as good as possible. Each picture is an image that means something to me, and hopefully to the people who view them. Photographers make rubbish editors, mostly, because you always want all of your work in and to display it huge. That\u2019s why having a really sympathetic designer with a great eye is really crucial. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018It was fascinating to go back through [the archive]. Most of my negatives are in my garage in filing cabinets. The vast majority of the pictures in this book are shot on film, so to pick up a contact sheet and to go to each picture again, it was slightly bizarre, and slightly humbling in a way. There\u2019s a lot of pictures that I\u2019d forgotten about that jumped off the contact sheet. Even if they didn\u2019t end up in the book, they certainly brought back very strong memories.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t

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A young gymnast practises leaps at Wuhan School of Sport. Harsh training often guarantees sporting success for China<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

A career in sections<\/strong>
\nExtraordinary Women is split into different sections, each of which is indicative of the type of career that Tom has had: conflict, crisis, health, movement, courage, work and moments. \u2018It\u2019s about the viewer, or the reader,\u2019 Tom explains. \u2018It makes it slightly easier to identify visual elements, or the situations where various photographs were shot. \u2018With the conflict pictures, I concentrated mainly on Sarajevo because I spent four years there during the siege. The place means an awful lot to me, and so do the people. With relation to women, if we take Sarajevo as an example, many women died in the siege because they were the ones who were out on the streets looking for food and collecting water from the pipes. So, when the mortars fell, they were outdoors. \u2018Bosnian woman are very proud of their appearance. One of my favourite pictures in the series is the photograph of the women sheltering behind an APC (armoured personnel carrier) and they look immaculate, so well turned out \u2013 you would hardly know there was very little water in the city, or any electricity. Those are the small things that I wanted to show in how they conducted themselves during what was a terrible time.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t

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Women run for their lives across \u2018Sniper Alley\u2019 during the siege of Sarajevo<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Putting together a book with a cohesive structure and which does justice not just to your own archive, but the subjects of your photography is always a testing time. \u2018There are always challenges,\u2019 explains Tom. \u2018I wouldn\u2019t say problems because the publisher was very accommodating. Of course, you want the best paper, the best printer, the best of everything. Books are a compromise \u2013 you do the best you can with the resources you have. It helps enormously if you\u2019ve got a publisher who wants to try and make it happen and understands that you\u2019re trying to make something of quality that will last a long time.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

Throw Covid into the mix, and you\u2019ve got a whole separate set of challenges too, naturally. \u2018It means not being able to get together \u2013 except virtually \u2013 with the designer, the publisher and Robin Morgan who edited the book. It also meant not being able to go on press [be at the printing press when proofs arrive] \u2013 all the things you would naturally do in normal times, so there was a lot of trust involved. I\u2019m also not sure what the appetite for photography books is at the moment \u2013 but I\u2019ve done my best and I\u2019ve had a lot of good advice and input from everybody. \u2018Any photographer will tell you that doing a book is a really stressful time, because you want it to be the very best it can be. But it\u2019s also a wonderful time because you\u2019re reacquainted with your work in such an intimate way, plus instead of having three or four pages to tell a story, you have 200. It\u2019s a real privilege to put a book together.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t

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Tom\u2019s image of Meliha is probably Tom\u2019s best-known photograph<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Confidence despite\u00a0the snipers<\/strong>
\nThe book hangs on the image of Meliha (above) the confident woman striding along the dangerous Sarajevo suburb of Dobrinja. The striking image adorns the cover of the book, the obvious choice to do so. \u2018It means a lot to me,\u2019 says Tom. \u2018It\u2019s just one of those moments that I feel lucky that I was able to get. I think it transcends just the siege in Sarajevo, which is why people like it. She\u2019s very beautiful and very proud, and this image kind of epitomises what I was trying to say about women. It\u2019s not just about women in extreme circumstances, it\u2019s a homage to women generally.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

One of those women is the Hollywood actress and Tom\u2019s friend, Angelina Jolie, who was has written the foreword to the book. \u2018She knows the image of Maliha very well \u2013 I know she loves it because when she was making her movie in Bosnia, the cast and crew gave her this picture when the film was wrapped. It was after that that I did some work for her. I\u2019ve photographed some of her foundation projects in Asia. I\u2019m pleased that she wanted to write something in the book because again, she is an extraordinary woman. People see her as an actor and a director, but I\u2019ve seen her, first hand, working in refugee camps and spending a lot of hours with women and children talking about their situation. I have a lot of time for people like that. She could easily sit in Hollywood and not do anything \u2013 like a lot of them do \u2013 but she\u2019s trying to make the world a better place. I think we should all do that \u2013 we need to equalise everything, respect each other and share our mutual understanding and love. \u2018Photography can be quite cruel, but I\u2019d like to think that my pictures have a human side to them \u2013 I\u2019ve always tried to shoot in a very humane way so that I feel justified. I feel good about putting these photographs into a book.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t

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Crowds gather on top of the Berlin Wall near Check Point Charlie when East Berliners were allowed to cross into the west for the first time<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Also included in the book is a 1987 news report by Marie Colvin \u2013 the foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times who died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria. Tom worked with her in Beirut, which was one of Marie\u2019s first experiences of conflict.\u00a0\u2018I was older than she was, and I was more experienced. We took a chance in Beirut to get a set of pictures that alerted the world to something terrible that was going on in this refugee camp. It was with this story that Marie discovered that this is what she wanted to do \u2013 the story made a real difference. The resultant kind of world-exclusive stopped something terrible that was going on. I wanted to pay tribute to Marie, because in the end she gave her life for her reporting. That\u2019s why I wanted to use her words, from her original article from The Sunday Times \u2013 The War on Women.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

Sister act<\/strong>
\nThe last time Tom and I spoke about his upcoming book, he was hoping to make some new portraits of extraordinary women making a difference right now. Names such as Malala Yousafzai \u2013 the Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate sprang to mind. Covid has of course put paid to such ambitions, but in a strange way, there is a new portrait in the book as a direct result of it. At the very end of the book is a portrait \u2013 a composite due to social distancing rules \u2013 of Tom\u2019s sister and his nieces. The extraordinary women in his own family have spent a combined 73 years working for the NHS. \u2018It seemed right to me that apart from having queens, heroines and people like that, that right there in front of me, there were members of my own family that deserved to be honoured.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

As well as the upcoming book release, there\u2019s also an exhibition scheduled for the Side Gallery in Newcastle, Tom\u2019s home town. In these socially distanced times, supporting galleries \u2013 especially the independents who are undeniably in peril \u2013 has never been more important. \u2018Having an exhibition at The Side is a great privilege for me because I live in the North East, so I\u2019m really a big fan of what they do and the exhibitions they\u2019ve had there. It\u2019s a real honour to be on the walls of my home town in such a highly regarded and prestigious gallery space.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\"\"\n

Extraordinary Women is available from all good bookstores from 1 October, or directly from the publisher (ACC Art Books). Images from the book will be exhibited at Side Gallery, Newcastle, from Saturday 26 September until Sunday 13 December. Please check the Side Gallery website<\/a> for more details and opening times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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