Photojournalist Andrew Winning’s subjects were ’bathed in light and shade’
<p class="c-article-body__text">British photojournalist Andrew Winning, who influenced a generation of agency photographers, died of brain cancer on Aug. 3 at 49, leaving behind a remarkable body of work which “exemplifies the very best of news photography,” according to Matt Frehner, The Globe and Mail’s head of visuals.</p> <p class="c-article-body__text">“He documented everything from an unguarded moment between Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez during a friendly baseball match, to images of conflict and natural disasters. His image of Canadian gymnast Patricia Bezzoubenko is a master class in clarity of composition and framing.”</p> <p class="c-article-body__text">Mr. Winning, the son of a Reuters correspondent, joined the news service in 1996 as chief photographer. He covered Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela for 12 years, then returned to London for 10 years, working as a Reuters photographer and then editor.</p> <p class="c-article-body__text">The sampling of Mr. Winning’s photography on these pages is a testament to his fine journalistic instincts. “He had a great nose for a story – its core relevance, where it was going, what its truth was,” said Ken Mainardis, global head of content at Getty Images, where Mr. Winning was news editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the past two years.</p> <p class="c-article-body__text">Mr. Winning was also known for getting very close to his subjects. “But as well as getting close to them,” said Henry Tricks, a friend and former Reuters colleague, “he is putting them in context – not just as items in the news, but as flesh-and-blood human beings, bathed in light and shade, part of the world that surrounds them.”</p>
Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves an impression of her feet in a mould as she arrives to visit Mount St. Michael off the coast of Cornwall, in southwest England, on May 17, 2013.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Elite special police run for cover after gunfire was heard from inside the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, on Jan. 27, 1997.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Then-Chinese president Jiang Zemin walks past a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer after arriving at the Museum of Anthropology to attend the APEC summit in Vancouver, on Nov. 25, 1997. The APEC leaders were given leather jackets to wear at the summit.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Ten-year-old Braa Mabrok from Brega cries in pain as she has the shrapnel wounds to her legs dressed by medical staff, at Ajdabiyah hospital on April 4, 2011.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Ifeoma Nwoye of Nigeria is carried away by her coach after she lost her women's freestyle 55kg wrestling semi-final to Brittanee Laverdure of Canada, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 31, 2014.Andrew Winning/Reuters
A rebel fighter prepares to tow away a government vehicle mounted with heavy machine guns after it was hit by a NATO airstrike, on the eastern outskirts of Brega on April 5, 2011.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Police arrest a pro-Tibet protester outside the Chinese embassy, during a visit by then-Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, in central London on Feb. 1, 2009.Andrew Winning/Reuters
A rebel fighter is treated for a gunshot wound at a hospital in Ajdabiyah, on April 9, 2011.Andrew Winning/Reuters
A resident takes souvenir snaps of wrecked telephone company vehicles after Hurricane Pauline devastated Mexico's famous tourist resort of Acapulco, on Oct. 9, 1997.Andrew Winning/Reuters
A Nicaraguan soldier carries five-year-old Wendy Dinosta from a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter after she was evacuated from the north-eastern town of Wiwili with a broken femur, on Nov. 5, 1998.Reuters
British Army Lieutenant Daniel John Clack's fiancee Amy Tinley (second left), mother Sue Clack (far left), and brother James (far right) gather just before his coffin is driven through the town of Wootton Bassett, western England, on Aug. 18, 2011.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Then-Cuban leader Fidel Castro (right) and then-Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez joke during a batting session at a friendly baseball game between their two countries, at Barquisimeto's baseball stadium on Oct. 29, 2000.Andrew Winning/Reuters
Bronze medallist Patricia Bezzoubenko of Canada competes in the ribbon competition of the individual apparatus final in the rhythmic gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 26, 2014.Andrew Winning/Reuters
The pods on the London Eye tourist attraction cast shadows against a thick morning fog in central London, on March 15, 2012.Andrew Winning/Reuters