TERRY FINCHERTerry Fincher, who died on 6 October, 2008, aged 77, was an esteemed press photographer, best known for his comprehensive coverage of world conflict.He covered every major war that took place during his career and he was named British Press Photographer of the Year on four occasions.He covered politics, royalty and show business for the Daily Herald, Daily Express, The Sun and his own photo agency, but was best known for his war photography.He made five trips to Vietnam and spent time in the trenches with American troops where he endured heavy enemy fire and torrential rain.Terence Edgar Fincher, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on 8 July, 1931, became fascinated with Fleet Street at an early age and started work as a messenger boy at 15.He made his name covering gang fights in South London before becoming a staffer with the Herald in 1957 - that year he won the first of his record haul of Photographer of the Year prizes.As well as Vietnam, he took photographs of the Nigerian Civil War, the Suez crisis and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.In 1970 he founded the Photographers International agency based in Surrey and sold photographs to the world's press, most notably those he took of Princess Diana with whom he became friends.In 2008 the Getty Images gallery in London staged a retrospective of his work. Even in retirement he carried a digital camera to take landscape shots. His wife June died a month before him and he was survived by his daughters, Jayne, Sally and Lucy.Fellow photographer Bob Aylott said Terry was "the finest Fleet Street photographer I ever encountered. His ruthless competitiveness, quick thinking and foresight kept him ahead."
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