Mr Tom Lloyd
PA Dunedin Mr Tom Lloyd, the “Otago Daily Times" chief photographer and illustrations editor for many years, has died in Dunedin after a long illness. He was 52. During a career spanning 30 years as a newspaper photographer. Mr Lloyd established an outstanding reputation. He won numerous New Zealand and overseas awards for news and sports pictures. Mr Lloyd fulfilled many assignments abroad, including secondment as a United Nations correspondent during the Korean war. He was the sole New Zealand press photographer present at the historic meeting at the South Pole of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs, during one of his three assignments in Antarctica.
A keen pilot, Mr Lloyd was particularly interested in aerial photography and provided the "Otago Daily Times” with many graphic pictures of floods, plane crashes, and similar dramatic happenings. In New Zealand press
photography contests he won the national award for sports photography in 1966 and for news photography in 1967. The 1967 news photography entry, showing the rescue of a shark attack victim at Dunedin's St Clair beach, was also selected, as the only New Zealand representative in a world press photograph competition which toured Europe. Mr Lloyd is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Press, 14 January 1982, Page 7
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