profile mike maloney

Mike’s outstanding career has left him with enough awards to stock several trophy cabinets

Mike Maloney is Britain’s most decorated press photographer. He’s the winner of more than 100 major press photography prizes, including British Press Photographer of the Year, which he’s won three times.

After joining The Evening News in 1971, he rose to become Chief Photographer of Mirror Group Newspapers, turning freelance in 2002.

He is a Freeman of the City of London. and in 2012 was made professor of photography at the University of Lincoln.

In 2005 Mike Maloney was made an OBE by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.