Word: durrant
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...Paul Durrant is a man of many careers. He was working as a hairdresser in the northeast of England in the late '70s when he heard a lecture by a photojournalist who had covered the Vietnam War. With a camera and a plane ticket, Paul set out to, as he says, "find his own war." He made it as far as Istanbul in 1981, when the military tensions in the Gulf got in the way of his eastward progress. On a tip from a fellow backpacker, he headed to Israel to find work at a kibbutz. He stayed for most...
...founding members of Time's newly decentralized European edition. Paul created the picture operations from scratch, recruiting a brilliant staff, including associate picture editor Maria Wood, and continuing the magazine's distinguished photojournalistic tradition - with a distinctly European focus. "For me the challenge was to know my magazine," says Durrant. "And to make sure the photographers understood it as well." He more than met the challenge, organizing photographs and photographers from Jutland to Johannesburg, Moscow to Madrid. As he says: "I make sure the right picture gets on the right page at the right time...