Francesca Montemaggi, National Union of Students Wales spokeswoman, nominates photographer PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS

Dec 14 2007 by Abbie Wightwick, Western Mail

“Philip Jones Griffiths is one of the most talented war photo-reporters ever. He covered the Algerian war, the Yom Kippur war in Israel and Vietnam and Cambodia, among others.

He later became president of Magnum Photos.

His groundbreaking pictures show us our humanity in its perverse cruelty and disarming vulnerability. His photos talk of love, death, politics, violence with irony and humility. He puts a mirror in front of us to remind us of who we are and who can be.

Mr Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire in l936 He covered the Algerian War in 1962, then moved to Central Africa. From there he moved to Asia, photographing in Vietnam from 1966 to 1971. I wonder if we can we get him to come to Wales?”