The newspaper’s former picture editor, a great photographer and believer in photojournalism as an agent for change, has died
Photo gallery: Life and death looked straight in the eye: the legacy of Tony McGrath
Tony McGrath, former Observer picture editor and a celebrated photographer whose work documenting the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s helped to inspire Live Aid, has died aged 80.
Dublin-born McGrath nurtured the work of a new generation of Observer photographers after cutting his teeth covering the conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Troubles in Northern
Ireland, Yom Kippur, East
Pakistan and Vietnam wars. In the latter, he survived an attack that killed the US troops he was travelling with, bringing to an end his time as a war photographer.