Eamonn McCabe

Eamonn McCabe (born 1948) is a British professional photographer who began his career as a sports photographer, and who won Sports Photographer of the Year four times between 1978 and 1984. He then turned his attention to general editorial portraiture for "The Observer" and "The Guardian". He is perhaps most well known for his photographic contribution to the weekly Guardian Profile.
His work encompasses a huge variety of subjects and topics, but he has largely concentrated on portraits of those in the arts. These include actors (such as Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins); writers (such as Ian McEwan and Iris Murdoch); poets (such as Carol Ann Duffy and Seamus Heaney); artists (such as Grayson Perry and David Hockney); and musicians (such as James Brown and Patti Smith). McCabe also ventured into sports photography, capturing figures in action, such as the table tennis player Li Chen Shi and footballer Diego Maradona. It was as a sports photographer that McCabe was attending the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, but he ended up being a news photographer as he found himself taking the famous but tragic images of the Heysel Stadium disaster.
McCabe also worked as the picture editor for "Decade", Phaidon's photographic review of the first ten years of the new Millennium. He is Visiting Senior Fellow in Photography at the University of Suffolk, holds an Honorary Doctorate of the University of East Anglia and Staffordshire University, and is an Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University.