Amateur Photographer

Wimbledon Press

- by Victor Blackman The Getty Images Hulton Archive is one of the world’s great cultural resources. Tracing its origins to the founding of the London Stereoscop­ic Company in 1854, today it houses over 80 million images spanning the birth of photograph­y to

A photograph­er leans back to get the perfect shot in the press box at The Championsh­ips, Wimbledon. This year’s tournament was due to take place between 29 June and 12 July – but of course it’s just one of the many sporting events that has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The well-known Daily Express photograph­er and former AP columnist, Victor Blackman, took this atmospheri­c shot 55 years ago. Blackman’s weekly column in AP was very opinionate­d and despite the fact that he died more than 30 years ago, we still get letters from readers who were very fond of it.

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