Ten years. Ten pictures. One camera
ACCLAIMED PHOTOGRAPHER CHOOSES HIS TOP SHOTS OF THE DECADE:
A Loony Dooker emerges from the freezing Forth and acclaimed photographer Jeff Mitchell is there to capture his first stunning picture of a brand new decade
It has been 10 years of tragedy and triumph, turbulence and turmoil. And Jeff Mitchell has been there to freeze- frame many of the moments that shaped the last decade. An award- winning photographer for news agency Getty since 2006, Glasgow-based Jeff has travelled the world to the biggest breaking stories.
Over the course of his career, he has won awards for his images, including Press Photographer of the Year.
Here, we asked Jeff to choose a picture from each of the past 10 years that captures the unforgettable moments of the past decade.
“When I started, one of the older guys I worked with was this legendary photographer Ian Hossack,” he said.
“He would say, ‘don’t get sucked into this theory you have to travel round the world to take a great picture. “He was probably right – two years ago I took a picture of a girl during the Beast From The East storm, and it was taken less than 200ft from my front door. “That was probably my favourite job of the decade!” One job Jeff doesn’t want to be remembered for, however, is a picture taken in Croatia.
A shot of hundreds of Syrian refugees queuing for trains was used by Nigel Farage and UKIP under a headline “breaking point”.
“I don’t want to be the guy remembered for ‘breaking point’. The people in that picture weren’t on their way to the UK, people could see that.
“I chose another picture for 2015 because I’m sick of talking about that one.”