Ian Parry was a talented photojournalist at the beginning of his career, when he was tragically killed whilst on assignment for The Sunday Times in December 1989. As the youngest of four children from Prestatyn, north Wales, Ian was determined from an early age to pursue a serious career in newspaper photojournalism and joined the local Rhyl Journal as a trainee at the age of 16. After studying on Sheffield's NCTJ course, he moved to London to secure his dream and joined The Sunday Times as a staff photographer. On one of his first major assignment to cover the war in Romania, a job he was determined to undertake, the plane carrying him home crashed just after take off in bad weather.
"He was one of the finest young photographers to have entered Fleet Street in recent years. He had a great deal of personal discipline, which he combined with flair, imagination and tremendous compassion", said Aidan Sullivan, who set up The Ian Parry Scholarship in his memory.
Tributes to Ian have come from every picture editor he worked for. "He could turn his hand to anything and had great potential. We often sent him on long, difficult jobs and there was never a squeak of complaint," said Michael Young of The Times.
Ian's obituary reads:
Newsman's memorial: His pictures
Ian Parry, Sunday December 31, 1989
By Margarette Driscoll
"Last Wednesday Ian Parry made a typically generous gesture. It was his last night in Romania and to celebrate going home he took a group of fellow photographers to dinner and picked up the bill. The next morning he knocked on their hotel room doors to ask if they had film they would like him to take back. He had arranged a seat on a supply plane leaving for Belgrade at 10.30am. A few hours later he was dead."
"He was one of the finest young photographers to have entered Fleet Street in recent years. He had a great deal of personal discipline, which he combined with flair, imagination and tremendous compassion", said Aidan Sullivan, who set up The Ian Parry Scholarship in his memory.
Tributes to Ian have come from every picture editor he worked for. "He could turn his hand to anything and had great potential. We often sent him on long, difficult jobs and there was never a squeak of complaint," said Michael Young of The Times.
Ian's obituary reads:
Newsman's memorial: His pictures
Ian Parry, Sunday December 31, 1989
By Margarette Driscoll
"Last Wednesday Ian Parry made a typically generous gesture. It was his last night in Romania and to celebrate going home he took a group of fellow photographers to dinner and picked up the bill. The next morning he knocked on their hotel room doors to ask if they had film they would like him to take back. He had arranged a seat on a supply plane leaving for Belgrade at 10.30am. A few hours later he was dead."
