Support our Sponsors, they keep FADU free:   AG Photographic   The Imaging Warehouse   Process Supplies   RH Designs   Second-hand Darkroom Supplies  

Notices

Go Back   Film and Darkroom User > General discussions > Photography in general

  ***   Click here for the FADU 2015/2014 Yearbooks   ***

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 29th April 2018, 04:42 AM
Collas Collas is online now
Friend
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 971
Default John Reardon RIP

The long-time Observer photographer has died at the age of 66.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...r-dies-aged-66

Nick
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 1st May 2018, 04:26 PM
Collas Collas is online now
Friend
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 971
Default

The Guardian obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ardon-obituary

Nick
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 1st May 2018, 06:37 PM
Mike O'Pray Mike O'Pray is offline
Friend
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Daventry, Northants
Posts: 8,969
Default

Interesting obituary but there's surely a major mistake in the obituary. He was born 1961 but was sent to a boarding school in Warwickshire 1966 to avoid conscription. He was only 5 then and anyway U.K. conscription ended in 1960

I wonder where the writer's confusion came from? Amazing this got past any editor

Mike
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 1st May 2018, 08:51 PM
Michael Michael is offline
Friend
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Ballinderry Lower, Co. Antrim
Posts: 1,345
Default

No, he would have been born in '51 or '52 and the conscription he was avoiding would have been into the South African forces.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 1st May 2018, 09:12 PM
Mike O'Pray Mike O'Pray is offline
Friend
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Daventry, Northants
Posts: 8,969
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael View Post
No, he would have been born in '51 or '52 and the conscription he was avoiding would have been into the South African forces.
Thanks. My maths were wrong and the rest of the obituary now makes sense.

Mike
Reply With Quote
Reply
Support our Sponsors, they keep FADU free:   AG Photographic   The Imaging Warehouse   Process Supplies   RH Designs   Second-hand Darkroom Supplies  

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
John Maher Collas Photography in general 5 27th December 2017 03:31 PM
John Blakemore website TonyMiller Photography in general 6 7th December 2017 01:13 PM
John Morris RIP Collas Photography in general 1 16th August 2017 03:24 PM
John Stewart Collas Photography in general 5 6th December 2015 06:04 AM
John Sexton MalcolmM Photography in general 2 12th September 2013 08:04 PM


All times are GMT. The time now is 06:09 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.