Alisdair Macdonald

Alisdair Macdonald (1940-2007) was a British press photographer[1] who worked 26 years with the Daily Mirror.[2] In 1989 he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main. [3]

This article is about the British press photographer. For people by the same name, see Alastair McDonald (disambiguation).

After his death, his daughter Helen Macdonald adopted a goshawk to help her cope and later wrote a book about the experience.[4][5]

References
  1. "Alisdair Macdonald: 1940-2007". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. "Obituaries Alisdair Macdonald". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. "1989 Alisdair MacDonald HM1 | World Press Photo".
  4. Stephen Moss, Helen Macdonald: a bird’s eye view of love and loss, The Guardian, 5 November 2014.
  5. Macdonald, Helen (2014). H is for Hawk. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224097000.


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