About The British Press Photographers’ Association

The British Press Photographers’ Association (BPPA) was founded in 1984 by UK press photographers in order to promote and inspire the highest ethical, technical and creative standards within the profession, and to raise awareness and appreciation of their industry outside it. Counting among its membership many of the country's leading photographers, on assignment in every corner of the globe, the BPPA truly represents the broadest selection of newspaper, magazine and agency photographers in the UK today.


About Harold Evans

Harold Evans was the editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and editor of The Times from 1981 to 1982. Named Editor of the Year in 1973, following The Sunday Times’ Thalidomide campaign, his account of these years was published in his best-selling book Good Times, Bad Times. He is internationally recognised as an authority on the use of photography in the media; his definitive book on press photography, Pictures on a Page, first published in 1978, is still in print over 25 years later.  He has received lifetime achievement awards from, amongst others, the International Center of Photography, and the British Press Awards.
In 2004 Harold Evans was honoured with a knighthood, for services to journalism, in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.


About Stuart Smith

Five Thousand Days has been designed by Stuart Smith of SMITH International, the acclaimed photographic book specialists who have recently produced both Eliot Erwitt’s Snaps and James Nachtwey’s Inferno.