Alisdair Macdonald

Alisdair Macdonald (1940-2007) was a British press photographer[1] who worked for 26 years with the Daily Mirror.

[2] He took a seven-year break to help launch the first full-colour national newspaper Today.

[3] In 1963 Macdonald travelled with the Beatles to Paris to document their shows at the Olympia.

[4] In 1989 he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main.

[5] After his death, his child Helen Macdonald adopted a goshawk to help them cope and later wrote H is for Hawk about the experience.