Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is a new category open to any content creator, past or present. This category will award an individual who has made a significant contribution to our industry in connection with Getty Images, whether staff, stringer, or contributor. The one Global winner of this category will be celebrated in the Getty Images Editorial Hall of Fame.
Tim Graham
“From a raw 18 year old on the pitch at the 1966 World Cup Final assisting George Freston of Fox Photos to one of the world’s renowned Royal photographers, Tim has long been a credit to our profession. Having shot all things Royal for over 40 years, he covered the Royal family at home and abroad - visiting more than 100 countries in the process. Tim’s work is exemplary and set the standard from those that would follow, notably Chris Jackson. Not only a gifted technician, Tim has long been held in high esteem by his peers as a wonderful human being - and modest in the extreme. His photographs have appeared in every major magazine, newspaper, on stamps, TV documentaries around the globe and he has won on several occasions the Martini award for best royal photograph of the year. Such was his reputation that he was invited to take official photographs for the Royal family. In 1982 he took the official 18th birthday photographs of Prince Edward, and in 1983 the Prince and Princess of Wales chose him to photograph them with Prince William ahead of their Australian tour. In 1987 he took the official photographs of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip for their 40th wedding anniversary. He was invited by the Queen in her Golden Jubilee year to photograph her and the other six reigning monarchs of Europe at Windsor Castle. This photograph was historic as it is only the second time in a hundred years that such a gathering has taken place. Though now in his-mid seventies, Tim is still shooting - largely travel photography and revisiting many of the locations he once covered as a Royal snapper. Having acquired his Royal Archive in 2010, Getty Images inherited a truly extraordinary body of work. ”
