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Luke Dodd

July 2024

  • Edna O'Brien.

    Edna O’Brien obituary

    Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

September 2022

  • HM Queen Elizabeth II in her official 80th birthday photograph, 2006.

    From the Observer archive: Queen Elizabeth II special
    The story behind the portrait of the Queen the palace used to announce her death

    Guardian archive director Luke Dodd recalls Observer photographer Jane Bown’s 80th birthday shoot with Queen Elizabeth II and what sparked that warm smile

June 2021

  • Chinese mission staff face off with police, 1967.

    Striking images: the 20th century, as told by Guardian photographers – in pictures

    From the Irish civil war to anti-apartheid protests, a new exhibition delves into the legendary Guardian picture library

October 2019

  • Sally Soames in the 1980s.

    Sally Soames obituary

    One of the few female newspaper photographers in Fleet Street, who worked for the Observer and Sunday Times

November 2017

  • Award-winning photographer David Levene has revealed an unparalleled cross-section of the urban 21st century over more than a decade documenting how people live and work in 70 cities

    City: the remarkable urban photographs of David Levene - video

    Award-winning photographer David Levene has revealed an unparalleled cross-section of the urban 21st century over more than a decade documenting how people live and work in 70 cities

    Video9:51

March 2017

  • Jean Fisher

    Other lives
    Jean Fisher obituary

    Other lives: Writer who was a champion of art as a radical practice

October 2015

  • Autistic children, 1966, by Jane Bown

    Jane Bown's photojournalism – in pictures

    Gallery17
  • Earls Court Underground, c1960 by Jane Bown

    What Jane Bown saw: the reportage

December 2014

April 2014

  • Jane Bown: turning the lens on Britain's shyest photographer

    She's always preferred being behind the camera, but from her childhood passed around a circle of aunts to her time as a Wren in the second world war, Jane Bown had a story to tell – and it took her friend and assistant Luke Dodd to persuade her to tell it

October 2009

  • Jane Bown exposed: on photographing Beckett, Björk and the Beatles

    The Observer's longest serving photographer looks back at some of the highlights of her career, to coincide with a new book and exhibition

May 2008

  • Nuala O'Faolain

    Obituary: The writer, journalist and broadcaster was a leading figure in modern Irish culture. By Luke Dodd

April 2006

  • double quotation markMichelangelo, curated by Tiffany

    Luke Dodd

    Luke Dodd: The exhibition at the British Museum makes the mistake of treating everything with equivalent reverence.

March 2006

  • True to life

    For 60 years, Jane Bown has been a photographer. She is best known for the extraordinary portraits she is still taking to this day, but no less impressive are her early images, many done for her own pleasure. By Luke Dodd, who is archiving her life's work

December 2003

  • Your turn to edit

    Luke Dodd, who edited this year's collection of the best Guardian journalism, found that his choices were dominated by the war in Iraq. Now you can make your own selection...

July 2003

  • Jane goes to Glastonbury

    Our legendary photographer Jane Bown went to capture the soul of the world's greatest rock festival last weekend, writes Luke Dodd.

October 2002

  • After the famine

    What do photographs taken since the country's worst disaster really tell us about modern Ireland? Luke Dodd reports.

October 2001

  • Bleak house

    Luke Dodd explores the epic forces beneath the demure surface of Maeve Brennan's The Visitor and discovers a new-found masterpiece

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