0:00:05 > 0:00:07'BBC London, 94.9.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10'Fiona McKinnon has a travel update.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13'Woolwich Ferry, that's not running, because of the fog...'
0:00:13 > 0:00:16At the turn of the year, two residents of London's Vauxhall
0:00:16 > 0:00:21found themselves at the heart of one of 2013's first big news stories.
0:00:22 > 0:00:27I was just about to leave for work. It was about 8.00am. I just heard
0:00:27 > 0:00:30this helicopter incredibly close outside my bedroom window.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37I was in bed, just checking my phone,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41scrolling through Twitter, and the next thing
0:00:41 > 0:00:44I know is there's this helicopter overhead,
0:00:44 > 0:00:46which is, kind of, unusual for that time of day.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49It sounded really low.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Then, a really loud jet engine noise over the house
0:00:52 > 0:00:56and a really loud, kind of, explosion that you really felt
0:00:56 > 0:00:57in your chest.
0:00:57 > 0:00:58EXPLOSION
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Oh, mate, your car's on fire! Get out of the car!
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Get out of the car, man, your car's on fire!
0:01:06 > 0:01:10The men didn't know each other, but their instincts were the same.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16I pulled out the phone and just took a quick video,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19just to show what had happened, really.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21I saw a huge fireball.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Just at that moment, I decided to take a photo of it.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27'In the past few minutes, we've been getting reports
0:01:27 > 0:01:30'that a helicopter's crashed in the middle of London.'
0:01:30 > 0:01:33This self-shot image, which would be tragically echoed
0:01:33 > 0:01:37at the end of the year in Glasgow, was just the start.
0:01:45 > 0:01:492013 was the year which put picture power in the hands of the people,
0:01:49 > 0:01:50as never before.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55It gave us the selfie - the ultimate self-shot, self-published image...
0:01:58 > 0:02:03..the first official royal photo, courtesy of a proud grandad...
0:02:04 > 0:02:07..and the moment the year's number one sporting hero
0:02:07 > 0:02:12turned his back on the press, to give his fans the money shot...
0:02:15 > 0:02:17..as well as some outstanding images
0:02:17 > 0:02:20captured by professional photographers,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23including the moment the world's greatest statesmen left the stage.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25EXPLOSION
0:02:25 > 0:02:29We'd see images created by witnesses to shocking events...
0:02:31 > 0:02:33..by victims of them.
0:02:33 > 0:02:38What this tells us is, in the worst situations, our instinct
0:02:38 > 0:02:42is now to record it, to look at it, to capture it,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45rather than to turn away.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50And in 2013, we saw images created by those responsible
0:02:50 > 0:02:52for terrible events on our streets,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55alive to the propaganda potential of the hand-held camera phone.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57SPEECH IS MUTED
0:02:57 > 0:02:59And all shared, attached
0:02:59 > 0:03:03and tweeted long before they could appear in newsprint.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05With social media,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07you take that snapshot, that moment,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10You don't know the context of it, you don't know the meaning,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13but it is already out there and people are consuming it.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17There is a saying that Twitter is at its best for the five minutes
0:03:17 > 0:03:19after a disaster and at its worst for the next 12 hours.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21There is some truth in that.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36I, Barack Hussein Obama,
0:03:36 > 0:03:37do solemnly swear...
0:03:45 > 0:03:49No-one could doubt that Craig Jenner's picture was the real thing.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52As soon as it started appearing on the internet,
0:03:52 > 0:03:55the Evening Standard knew they couldn't compete.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58We're just getting pictures on Twitter this morning of those scenes
0:03:58 > 0:04:02in Vauxhall, where a helicopter has reportedly crashed this morning...
0:04:05 > 0:04:06We had photographers on the ground,
0:04:06 > 0:04:10but by the time they got to the scene, everywhere was cordoned off.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14We were obviously watching the Twitter feed,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17and the picture came up.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19The immediate impact was "Wow!"
0:04:19 > 0:04:21I thought, "This ain't going to be bettered by anybody."
0:04:22 > 0:04:27This was going to go on the front page...without question.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33The powerful thing about this picture, for me, is the way it shows
0:04:33 > 0:04:35something apocalyptic
0:04:35 > 0:04:38happening on an ordinary London morning.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41It's got this lovely blue quality to the picture.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44It's a misty morning. People are just getting up.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46It is still quite dark, there are lights on.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52And then, right in the middle of this road outside someone's house,
0:04:52 > 0:04:54there is a helicopter in flames.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57It is like something out of a horror film, a nightmare.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Nic Walker's incredible video footage
0:05:02 > 0:05:05also appeared on news channels around the world,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07from Belarus to the USA.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10REPORTER SPEAKS ESTONIAN
0:05:10 > 0:05:13All this was conducted on the iPhone
0:05:13 > 0:05:15in a Starbucks. That is really the true sign
0:05:15 > 0:05:17of what social media's let us do -
0:05:17 > 0:05:20it's let me take a video of a major incident
0:05:20 > 0:05:23in the centre of London and send that to the world
0:05:23 > 0:05:25from a tiny little device in my hand.
0:05:26 > 0:05:31Neither excepted offers of payment, not wanting to cash in on a tragedy.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36They were some of the first amateur news gatherers of 2013 to beat
0:05:36 > 0:05:38the professionals at their own game.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46'Emergency crews in south-eastern Australia
0:05:46 > 0:05:50'are racing to contain bush fires, ahead of more very hot weather...'
0:05:50 > 0:05:52On the other side of the world,
0:05:52 > 0:05:54there were devastating forest fires in Tasmania.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57'These outbreaks are an unpredictable enemy
0:05:57 > 0:06:02'and can turn in devastating fashion on the whim of the wind.'
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Grandparents Tim and Tammy Holmes
0:06:04 > 0:06:08and their five grandchildren were forced out by the flames.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11I looked up to the hills
0:06:11 > 0:06:14and saw the flames licking over the crest of the hill.
0:06:14 > 0:06:20That was a very memorable sight, one that I will never forget,
0:06:20 > 0:06:26of seeing the air, just gas burning in the air, like a great gas burner.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32The pictures taken on their mobile phone,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35as the flames surrounded them, amazed the world.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42Tammy said, "Nobody will ever believe what we are seeing.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44"Take some pictures with my phone."
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Thinking clearly under pressure,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51She had placed her phone on the jetty, so it was above our heads
0:06:51 > 0:06:57and I was able to retrieve it quite easily and take some pictures -
0:06:57 > 0:07:00just stand back a couple of metres and take pictures of the scene.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05And, you know, those pictures have told the story
0:07:05 > 0:07:07better than I can in words.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Your first reaction is, "How the hell did they get THERE?"
0:07:18 > 0:07:23And what would you do? It is like Dante's inferno. You think,
0:07:23 > 0:07:27"Well, what would my reaction be?" They're in the water, but then what?
0:07:27 > 0:07:28It makes you ask 1,000 questions.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36You don't just want to vanish. You want to leave a record.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Maybe at some dark place in this man's mind,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42supposing they had all perished,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46perhaps the camera would have survived, perhaps these images
0:07:46 > 0:07:50would have survived... like a message in a bottle.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Storm clouds were brewing over Rome,
0:08:15 > 0:08:19when photographer Alessandro Di Meo's phone rang.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21History was being made at the Vatican.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24'Pope Benedict has shocked his closest advisers
0:08:24 > 0:08:27'and Roman Catholics around the world
0:08:27 > 0:08:30'by announcing his resignation at the end of this month.'
0:08:31 > 0:08:36TRANSLATION: The Pope had resigned, and I had to rush to St Peter's.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38At first, I thought it was a joke, but the agency
0:08:38 > 0:08:39kept confirming it.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42'Religious leaders across the world have expressed their shock'
0:08:42 > 0:08:47and sadness at the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, who has announced
0:08:47 > 0:08:51'he is stepping down because of his age and ill-health.'
0:09:01 > 0:09:02TRANSLATION: When I go to do a job,
0:09:02 > 0:09:06I think about the photo I would like to take.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10And then it came to me.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12I said to two of my colleagues,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15"If it begins to rain and there is lightning,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18"I would like to take a photo of it, because the news about the Pope's
0:09:18 > 0:09:20"resignation came like a bolt from the blue."
0:09:24 > 0:09:28THUNDER RUMBLES
0:09:31 > 0:09:34TRANSLATION: For 40 minutes or so, I didn't manage to shoot any,
0:09:34 > 0:09:36as it doesn't happen all the time.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40I took a cloth to clean my lens and, while I was doing it,
0:09:40 > 0:09:44a lightning bolt struck the dome. I missed it, but I kept trying.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Fortunately, some minutes later,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49another hit the dome while I was shooting.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03For some, Alessandro's pictures were too good to be.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06With Photoshopped imagery everywhere in 2013,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09was this just another fake?
0:10:13 > 0:10:17TRANSLATION: My colleagues told me there were rumours on the internet
0:10:17 > 0:10:21saying my shot was fake - that it was a photomontage.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25At first, I found this funny, but after a while,
0:10:25 > 0:10:31it began to annoy and upset me, because the shot had my name on it.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Fortunately, the lightning bolt was also caught on video,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38silencing the sceptics.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41THUNDER ROARS
0:10:41 > 0:10:44TRANSLATION: There are so many photographers who work a whole life
0:10:44 > 0:10:47and don't shoot a photograph as good as mine.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51I'm 34 years old and I have done it.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57For me, as a person of faith,
0:10:57 > 0:10:58I am very happy to say that
0:10:58 > 0:11:01that picture says to me, "There is a God - pay attention."
0:11:15 > 0:11:18In Chelyabinsk, Russia,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22further proof of the growing power of the digital lens in 2013.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27A falling meteor, captured automatically by dashboard cameras
0:11:27 > 0:11:30installed to foil corrupt traffic police.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Photographed by many people,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36the photographs are immediately shared all over the world.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38They are transmitted all over the world.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40You are no longer in the world which we were
0:11:40 > 0:11:44throughout much of the 20th century, when different parts of the world
0:11:44 > 0:11:47were divided and closed off from each other.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02'He's in a different league and only...'
0:12:02 > 0:12:06In 2013, we would see many famous faces going to court.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14But nobody's fall from grace was more dramatic than Paralympic hero
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Oscar Pistorius.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21'Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23'after his girlfriend was shot at his home.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25'He was arrested in the early hours of the morning
0:12:25 > 0:12:28'and will appear in court tomorrow.'
0:12:31 > 0:12:33A hero, who had gone against so much adversity,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36standing in court. This is a new adversity.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39You are trying to get your head around it - What happened?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42What is he thinking? What is his father thinking?
0:12:42 > 0:12:46What is the family of his girlfriend thinking? What's happened?
0:12:47 > 0:12:51Chris Harris, a staff photographer with The Times,
0:12:51 > 0:12:57had taken this famous picture of Nelson Mandela leaving jail in 1990.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00In February, he had another national hero in his sights,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03but this one was heading the other way.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08It almost never happened, though.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Cameras are often allowed in South African courts
0:13:10 > 0:13:14before the judge enters, but there was a problem.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17I phoned, as soon as I got to the court and said,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20"We are on time, but the bad news is,
0:13:20 > 0:13:22"I don't think I'm going to get in."
0:13:22 > 0:13:26It was absolutely packed with journalists.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Undeterred, Chris Harris stood on a chair,
0:13:31 > 0:13:33which he requisitioned from inside,
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and poked his lens up against a window.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42He just wanted to cry his eyes out.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45His face, kind of, screwed up, as though he was about
0:13:45 > 0:13:49to burst into tears. No tears came.
0:13:49 > 0:13:56He just looked forward and pushed his hands over his eyes, like this.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02It seemed that the realisation, everything that had happened,
0:14:02 > 0:14:06caught up with him. That was the moment, for me.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11In most UK courts, an artist can only
0:14:11 > 0:14:15sketch defendants. South Africa's more liberal policy allowed us
0:14:15 > 0:14:18a privileged insight into the drama of the courtroom.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24The image of his father reaching out to him
0:14:24 > 0:14:26and Oscar not actually reaching back,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29or leaning towards his father, is very painful to watch.
0:14:29 > 0:14:35Anyone who has been in a situation where their child may have fallen,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37the instinctive reaction of a parent
0:14:37 > 0:14:39is to help them back to their feet and to put their arm round them.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44And the picture almost screamed out and said, "Don't help me."
0:15:06 > 0:15:11In March, the news media and a politician were on a collision course.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14'Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are to stand trial
0:15:14 > 0:15:17'charged with intending to pervert the course of justice.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20'It's alleged Mr Huhne, a former Energy Secretary, persuaded
0:15:20 > 0:15:24'Vicky Pryce to take penalty points after he was caught speeding.'
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Justin Tallis is a veteran of the courtroom scrum.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36I got down here and there must have been 50, 60 photographers,
0:15:36 > 0:15:38plus television camera people.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40And there were also quite a few protesters here.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43'Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46'For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,
0:15:46 > 0:15:49'in sickness and in health. And soon, in prison.'
0:15:50 > 0:15:53The original crime was a speeding offence.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56But the former minister then lied to the police, to his family
0:15:56 > 0:15:58and to us.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00His wife initially backed him up,
0:16:00 > 0:16:04but after he had had an affair and dumped her, she took her revenge.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08It was a downfall the British people would relish,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10and the press had to prepare for it.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I saw if I could come in from the side
0:16:13 > 0:16:16I could maybe get a media picture of media here, photographers,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20TV camera people, and Chris Huhne walking here.
0:16:24 > 0:16:30The two slowly got closer together, but because of the protesters
0:16:30 > 0:16:35and the size of the press pack, the media slowly came to a stop
0:16:35 > 0:16:40cos we couldn't go any further, and Mr Huhne kept walking, until...
0:16:45 > 0:16:49There's a thousand emotions that that picture and his stern reaction to it
0:16:49 > 0:16:53elicits, and that's why that picture is very powerful.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57If you're trying to be provocative, and we are in our
0:16:57 > 0:17:01"Hello, world, wake up, look at these stories,"
0:17:01 > 0:17:04then that's a very, very powerful image, because it's already telling you
0:17:04 > 0:17:08a thousand things before you even bother to read the first six words.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13I think a good picture usually encompasses
0:17:13 > 0:17:15as many elements of the story as possible.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19So if you look at the picture you have a camera on the left,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21which... The story is about a speed camera.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24You have the police officer in the middle
0:17:24 > 0:17:26and the issue is with the law here.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28And then you have Mr Huhne, with a crooked nose -
0:17:28 > 0:17:32a politician who's done wrong, on the right-hand side.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39You can spend all day waiting to find a picture.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43You can show your selection to the editor, and say
0:17:43 > 0:17:46"I'm happy about this" or "I don't think I've got THE one image,"
0:17:46 > 0:17:50but that came in...I don't know, say half 12, one o'clock in the afternoon -
0:17:50 > 0:17:52instantly, you show it to the editor,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54you know that your job's done for the day.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59As a man of faith, as a man who preaches peace and tolerance
0:17:59 > 0:18:02it would be completely unbecoming for me to say,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05"Chris Huhne, you completely deserve this." So I won't.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08(Chris Huhne, you completely deserve this.)
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Jail wasn't the end of it.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Both Huhne and Pryce would be caught by long lenses
0:18:14 > 0:18:16as they saw out their sentences in open prisons.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21They protested that their privacy had been invaded.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24The Press Complaints Commission disagreed and the pair were accused
0:18:24 > 0:18:28of using the media when it suited them, and crying foul when it didn't.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58In April, terror struck the Boston Marathon.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03And in its wake came serious questions about social media.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04EXPLOSION, SCREAMING
0:19:07 > 0:19:09I turned, and I had no idea what it was.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12I mean, you hear a loud explosion like that, it rocked everything.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14I didn't know if it was fireworks that went off,
0:19:14 > 0:19:18if it was like... Some people were saying, maybe like
0:19:18 > 0:19:22an electrical box exploded or something like that - you never think terrorist attack.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24That's never your first thought.
0:19:27 > 0:19:3221-year-old student Dan Lampariello tweeted a picture which alerted
0:19:32 > 0:19:36many around the world that something terrible had happened in Boston.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I took out my iPhone and just started taking pictures.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44There was white smoke just billowing up over the buildings over there,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47and I just started taking pictures of it.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51I took one photo, and to tell you the truth I just turned and ran.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58Often, the most powerful pictures of terrible events
0:19:58 > 0:20:01are those which are taken from a distance.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07If you're up close at the heart of this, the horror is overwhelming.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10There's all these people there watching a racing event,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13and there in the background people are dying and being...
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Their lives are being changed for ever.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17It's very haunting.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23Dan's picture had an electrifying effect on journalists everywhere.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29I was in the newsroom, and it was a reasonably ordinary night.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33And then my Twitter feed lit up like a firework.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37There's a saying in that when a light goes on, when a signal goes off,
0:20:37 > 0:20:39you immediately see it,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41and often that's true with Twitter.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45And immediately Boston was firing down my timeline
0:20:45 > 0:20:49and firing through my Twitter, and immediately I knew there was a story.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57Dan's picture appeared to show a mysterious figure on a rooftop.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01It was just one example that led to feverish speculation online,
0:21:01 > 0:21:05resulting in many people being wrongly accused.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07And tragedy would follow.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11There's a saying that Twitter is at its best during the five minutes
0:21:11 > 0:21:16after a disaster, and at its worst for the next 12 hours. And there's some truth in that.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21An awful lot of people becoming internet detectives.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23And they started to make their own theories up -
0:21:23 > 0:21:26they saw a guy with a rucksack, they saw a dark-skinned guy,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28they saw a guy walking in a different direction.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33The instinctive reaction of course was to racialise this issue,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36was to say, "We are looking for brown-skinned bombers,
0:21:36 > 0:21:39"we are looking for ethnic minorities. We're looking for Muslims."
0:21:39 > 0:21:45Self-appointed cyber detectives singled out Sunil Tripathi,
0:21:45 > 0:21:50a 22-year-old student who'd been reported missing before the bombing,
0:21:50 > 0:21:52even though he had no connection with it
0:21:52 > 0:21:55and had never been under police suspicion.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00After his body was found in the Providence River,
0:22:00 > 0:22:01many believed he had killed himself
0:22:01 > 0:22:05because he'd been wrongly identified as a terrorist.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12The news-sharing site Reddit apologised for its role
0:22:12 > 0:22:14in the online witch-hunt -
0:22:14 > 0:22:18even though nobody could know for sure if the two events were connected.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24With social media, you take that snapshot, that moment.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26You don't know the context of it, the meaning,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28but it's already out there and people are consuming it.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32What will be interesting is the consequence of that further down the line,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35that we now have access to a jungle of information
0:22:35 > 0:22:38and pictures all the time, and I do think that in the future
0:22:38 > 0:22:45there will still be a need for a trusted hand-holder to take you through,
0:22:45 > 0:22:47to tell you what you need to know, what's important,
0:22:47 > 0:22:49this is the context... and get you through the jungle.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Some news events and long planned for,
0:23:08 > 0:23:11but can still throw up surprising images.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16'Baroness Thatcher, Britain's longest-serving Prime Minister
0:23:16 > 0:23:20'of the 20th century, passed away this morning following a stroke.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22'There'll be a funeral at St Paul's Cathedral
0:23:22 > 0:23:24'with full military honours.'
0:23:26 > 0:23:30The funny thing about Margaret Thatcher's funeral was that
0:23:30 > 0:23:33in a way the emotion was quite unexpected.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39So many images stay in my mind.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I was just a couple of feet from the aisle
0:23:42 > 0:23:48so I saw the funeral procession go past very, very close.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Prince Philip, with a glassy stare ahead of him,
0:23:51 > 0:23:56just a tiny drop of moisture on the end of his nose.
0:23:57 > 0:24:03The Queen, bird-like, looking around, very, very observant,
0:24:03 > 0:24:05taking everything in.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08BELL TOLLS
0:24:12 > 0:24:16But who would have predicted which pictures would be the most talked about?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21We're all watching it on TV,
0:24:21 > 0:24:25and halfway through the service the camera panned round
0:24:25 > 0:24:29the people who were in the congregation, and there's George.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33And someone shouted out, "He looks like he's crying."
0:24:33 > 0:24:38And so we rewound the video, went back and noticed that he was.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44We don't do this this often at the time, that's a grab off moving footage.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48So the quality's not great, but it's enough to actually show that
0:24:48 > 0:24:52he IS crying, and basically that's how we got it.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55We nicked it off the BBC!
0:24:56 > 0:25:00The great thing about that picture is, "Really? He's crying? Good grief."
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And you just think... Then it's powerful.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07It becomes a talking point, and you could put that in any newspaper,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09any magazine, on TV...
0:25:09 > 0:25:13You could put it anywhere, because it's a talking point, because you think,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17"But I didn't think British politicians showed emotions.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19"Especially not men. And him?
0:25:19 > 0:25:22"Why is... Look, he's crying!" That's a talking point.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27I'm not altogether surprised that the image made the news,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30because it's quite a thing to see a Chancellor,
0:25:30 > 0:25:35who has to be a fairly unsentimental man, with a tear in his eye.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38I thought it was rather good for George Osborne
0:25:38 > 0:25:44because one has to see him as a bean-counter, that's what Chancellors are supposed to do.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48But to see him just as caught up as everybody else in the emotion -
0:25:48 > 0:25:53well, it humanized him for me and I think for a lot of other people too.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59There were others who were more cynical.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Who will win? That's the big question.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Olivia Colman is up for a couple.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06CHEERING
0:26:08 > 0:26:11If she doesn't win, there'll be tears.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14She's sort of like George Osborne, isn't she? Yeah.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Except she's good at something and people like her.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17LAUGHTER
0:26:20 > 0:26:25When I saw the picture of George Osborne crying, I was incensed.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29This is the man who has presided over welfare reforms
0:26:29 > 0:26:31and cuts which have devastated the lives of people,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34and I'm not sure if I've ever seen any public remorse
0:26:34 > 0:26:40for any of those things - however, when Maggie died, he's crying.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47Some speculated that it was bad economic news that brought a tear to his eye.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49But his own account was straightforward.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53JOHN HUMPHRYS: 'We did see you weeping at the funeral.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56'Huge amount of coverage of that, of course.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59'Well, I was caught on camera, so I can't deny that it...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01'No, no, but I just want to...
0:27:01 > 0:27:03'Yes, I welled up a bit, because I thought
0:27:03 > 0:27:08'it was a very emotional and moving occasion, and at times overwhelming.'
0:27:21 > 0:27:23INAUDIBLE UNDER MUSIC
0:27:34 > 0:27:38May saw the camera phone used to shock, as a propaganda tool.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43An off-duty soldier was targeted on a South London street.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47One of his killers wanted to record a justification for their actions
0:27:47 > 0:27:51and instructed a man on his way to pick up his children from school
0:27:51 > 0:27:53to take out his smartphone -
0:27:53 > 0:27:56and all the while, holding a bloodied meat cleaver.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01The only reason we have killed this man today
0:28:01 > 0:28:05is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers,
0:28:05 > 0:28:09and this British soldier is one - it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13There is a man in the middle of a very ordinary part of London,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16with blood on his hands and a knife in his hands.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19The shocking element for me was that this was something that
0:28:19 > 0:28:23you would normally associate with Afghanistan or possibly
0:28:23 > 0:28:26the Middle East, and this was happening in Woolwich.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29There's a woman pushing a shopping trolley
0:28:29 > 0:28:32almost past this guy during part of the footage.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35The guy who took that picture,
0:28:35 > 0:28:38I think an awful lot of people put themselves in his place.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40A man with a knife and blood in his hands
0:28:40 > 0:28:43tells you to take his picture, you're going to do it.
0:28:43 > 0:28:48The sight of somebody not only covered in blood,
0:28:48 > 0:28:54but audaciously standing in front of somebody who was filming it,
0:28:54 > 0:28:59and talking about politics and talking about
0:28:59 > 0:29:02a potential justification for that act,
0:29:02 > 0:29:05I think is something... We've never seen anything like that before.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09The next day,
0:29:09 > 0:29:13most newspapers had this image from the video on their front pages.
0:29:16 > 0:29:20It was an incredibly powerful image on the front page of our paper and
0:29:20 > 0:29:23pretty much every other newspaper and every other news organisation.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Was it right to run it so prominently?
0:29:30 > 0:29:34At The Guardian, many readers and staff thought not.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37We had an awful lot of reaction to that picture and some of it was bad.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41A lot of the criticism seemed to be that readers didn't expect that from The Guardian.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45At the Mirror, the editor had no qualms.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49This was a horrific story, but a story that had to be covered
0:29:49 > 0:29:53and if you're going to cover it properly, then,
0:29:53 > 0:29:58unfortunately, sometimes news is bad, news is horrific, news is awful
0:29:58 > 0:30:00and sometimes images are.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02But that's not a reason to shy away from using them,
0:30:02 > 0:30:03if it's the right thing to do.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09Clearly, in this case, you have to think about the family of the
0:30:09 > 0:30:12victim, you have to think about children looking at the newspaper.
0:30:12 > 0:30:17I am a father myself, I have two children. They saw it. They read the story.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19The said, "Oh, my God, I can't believe that."
0:30:19 > 0:30:22But they didn't say, "Why did you put that on the front page, Dad?"
0:30:26 > 0:30:29But although attacks on mosques grew, Mo Ansar, who offered himself
0:30:29 > 0:30:34as a moderate Muslim voice in the wake of Woolwich, agrees with the decision.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39I think the media were right to publish the pictures.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42I think some of the reporting around some of these news
0:30:42 > 0:30:45stories need to be more measured in the future.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49I think when we look at the ethics of media reporting it is vital
0:30:49 > 0:30:52that we report these kinds of things. People have a right to know.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55The need to know. The need to see these things.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19On the 20th May, a tornado struck Oklahoma City.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24And while the news helicopters excelled at showing
0:31:24 > 0:31:28the scale of the devastation, it took this picture to
0:31:28 > 0:31:30remind us of the power of still photography.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37One of the things that a real photographer can do, and that this picture
0:31:37 > 0:31:41does so greatly, is actually put in motion.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45It is not just a dead lens taking the picture, it is not the machine taking the picture,
0:31:45 > 0:31:47it is a human being taking the picture
0:31:47 > 0:31:53and the mark of a true photographer, artist, with a camera, is that they
0:31:53 > 0:31:58can actually express feeling in the way they take the picture.
0:32:10 > 0:32:14In April, a garment factory collapsed in Dakar, Bangladesh,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16killing over 1,000 people.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21But it was not until May when this picture emerged of teenager
0:32:21 > 0:32:25Reshima Begum that the story made the front pages.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27She had been trapped for 17 days.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31When they pulled Reshima out of the rubble,
0:32:31 > 0:32:34suddenly this story became about a person.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36We were able to identify with someone,
0:32:36 > 0:32:39we were able to feel the pain and suffering of somebody
0:32:39 > 0:32:41and I think if it wasn't for Reshima,
0:32:41 > 0:32:44and others who were pulled out of the rubble at that time, I am not sure
0:32:44 > 0:32:47whether that story would have had the same impact on us as it did.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19Ninth of June, Mayfair, London.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24A freelance paparazzo all goes by the name Jean-Paul was
0:33:24 > 0:33:30driving past Scott's restaurant when he spotted a celebrity couple sitting outside.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36When I take pictures of celebs they never know I am there.
0:33:36 > 0:33:41I am always in the car, very still, really unassuming. Never on the pavement in their face.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45No-one knows what I look like, I don't want them to know I am there,
0:33:45 > 0:33:48because if they do, they act differently, they behave differently
0:33:48 > 0:33:50and the pictures are not genuine.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57A picture of chef Nigella Lawson and her art collector husband at their
0:33:57 > 0:34:02regular table would not interested newspaper editors or their readers.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05But what he saw next most certainly would.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13I saw by now that Charles Saatchi had his hand around her neck.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15Was he explaining something to her?
0:34:15 > 0:34:17I did not think it was anything unusual
0:34:17 > 0:34:18till I saw him do it again.
0:34:18 > 0:34:22This time, I caught his hand up against her throat.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31Jean-Paul took more than 350 photographs,
0:34:31 > 0:34:35he knew he had something special. And he knew who to take them to.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39An old-fashioned Sunday tabloid, looking to exploit
0:34:39 > 0:34:41the demise of the News of the world.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47The word was that The People were looking for a big splash,
0:34:47 > 0:34:52they had a new editor and were going to relaunch. They needed a massive scoop.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55It was a flagging newspaper, most people thought it had folded.
0:34:58 > 0:35:03It was my first week on the job and our picture editor
0:35:03 > 0:35:08was given from paparazzi a set of pictures halfway through
0:35:08 > 0:35:12the week for a Sunday paper, knowing that there was a new boss
0:35:12 > 0:35:14who would need to be impressed.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16I was given a quarter of an hour to make our minds up
0:35:16 > 0:35:20and I had to go down with the begging bowl to make sure
0:35:20 > 0:35:23we had the money to do that, to management.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27In my first week, I thought I would probably get away with that, and I did.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30£16,000 was the sum she extracted from the bosses.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35Arguably a bargain, given the picture's impact for the paper
0:35:35 > 0:35:38and Mirror online.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41On day one, we were up to about ten million page impressions
0:35:41 > 0:35:46and by day two, it was over 30 million people had come to look at those pictures.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48And you think, "How did 30 million people know?"
0:35:48 > 0:35:50They are in America, Canada, China,
0:35:50 > 0:35:53people coming from all over the place to look at these pictures.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59Charles Saatchi, who accepted a police caution, said the images
0:35:59 > 0:36:04were completely misleading. Much to his anger, Nigella stayed silent
0:36:04 > 0:36:07and the couple divorced just weeks later.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Those pictures would be back.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54The waiting is over! Andy Murray is the Wimbledon champion.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00Andy Murray's relations with the media have never been warm.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05And whether by accident or design, at his moment of triumph
0:37:05 > 0:37:08at Wimbledon he turned his back on the ranks of professional
0:37:08 > 0:37:13photographers and faced... an IT consultant from Surbiton.
0:37:13 > 0:37:18You can see that he is just, kind of, amazed by it all
0:37:18 > 0:37:22and then he just really starts roaring at the crowd.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Chris has his wife to thank for a still that had
0:37:26 > 0:37:27the professionals cursing.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32My wife thought, "Let's take the camera." Often it is
0:37:32 > 0:37:35one of those things where you forget to take the camera.
0:37:35 > 0:37:41It was only after he got home that night, he realised what he got.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44We started looking through the shots and I was amazed by the pictures,
0:37:44 > 0:37:47really, I thought, "Wow, these are... Did I take these?"
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Amongst the celebrities in the Royal box
0:37:55 > 0:37:58were movie actors Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04Seemingly excited to be at the biggest tennis match of the year,
0:38:04 > 0:38:08the Hollywood stars, in coordinating summer suits, could not help
0:38:08 > 0:38:14but take a selfie, a word many heard for the first time in 2013.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18It all started with Facebook and everyone posting
0:38:18 > 0:38:22images of their holidays and everything had to be fabulous.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26And then, I think people realised that this whole, "My life is
0:38:26 > 0:38:31perfect" shtick, was getting boring, so we then got the selfie.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37It's given is a new glimpse of the lives of the rich and famous.
0:38:37 > 0:38:44Even the Prime Minister. But we have all been in on the craze.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Silly, spontaneous
0:38:47 > 0:38:52and always with an obligatory arm holding a camera phone.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54More than half of us have taken one.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57And a surprising number have taken a sexy one.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Uploaded to Instagram and other picture-sharing sites,
0:39:00 > 0:39:02they say "Look at us, this is who we are
0:39:02 > 0:39:06"and where we are and this is who we are with."
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Editors at Oxford dictionaries would later declare "selfie"
0:39:09 > 0:39:11the word of the year.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17On the one hand, people are liberated by being able to control their own
0:39:17 > 0:39:21portrait, their own image, on the other hand it makes you obsessed with your own image.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24Everyone has their own Hello! magazine.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28There's the sense in which you become your own public relations officer.
0:39:28 > 0:39:34And whatever you go you are looking for the perfect selfie opportunity.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Things just become fake.
0:39:42 > 0:39:46There was one image we were all kept waiting for that long glorious July.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00For the world's media, this would be one of the most important
0:40:00 > 0:40:04photos of the year. And one man would have a special role to play.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11John Stillwell has taken some of the most memorable pictures
0:40:11 > 0:40:12of the Royal family.
0:40:14 > 0:40:19Not for him, the usual media scrum, this time he would rise above it.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23When I came here I immediately thought if someone was in a very
0:40:23 > 0:40:27elevated position in this building looking down, you would get a clean shot of the baby's face.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31The only thing I worried about was the camera falling out
0:40:31 > 0:40:35of the window, because there was a lot of press downstairs
0:40:35 > 0:40:38and there would have been quite a lot of casualties if this had fallen out.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44After an almost three-week wait, the royal couple emerged.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55And four floors up, John went into action.
0:41:01 > 0:41:06Once I got that picture of the entire head of him, that was great and then
0:41:06 > 0:41:11I got Prince William with the profile of his face with his son behind.
0:41:13 > 0:41:17Then I got all three of them and the Duchess waving,
0:41:17 > 0:41:20so, I expected to get one or two good pictures but I got three or four.
0:41:22 > 0:41:23But it wasn't over.
0:41:23 > 0:41:28He needed to the send digital images out to his agency before his rivals below.
0:41:28 > 0:41:33Card comes out of the camera, put into a card reader.
0:41:35 > 0:41:36Put the pictures on the laptop.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41As soon as they left in the Land Rover, the pictures went to my office within three minutes.
0:41:41 > 0:41:45So within five minutes of that baby coming out of the door,
0:41:45 > 0:41:49the pictures are around the world. Used in newspapers and magazines.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55That's like scoring the winning goal in a cup final.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57That's the only way I can describe it for a photographer.
0:42:00 > 0:42:05This is the image that makes even the most hardened Republicans
0:42:05 > 0:42:10start investing in the Coronation mugs and royal memorabilia,
0:42:10 > 0:42:13because you cannot be cynical
0:42:13 > 0:42:20when you see a young couple carry their newborn son the next day
0:42:20 > 0:42:24into this pack of waiting photographers and show him off,
0:42:24 > 0:42:29just in the same way as every couple would show off their baby
0:42:29 > 0:42:31to whoever was there.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46Four weeks later, Kensington Palace issued a press release.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49When you get a note to say there's going to be a picture today
0:42:49 > 0:42:52and it can't go out until midnight and you think,
0:42:52 > 0:42:55you've definitely got your front page, that's great.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58And it arrives and you look down and says,
0:42:58 > 0:43:02"Taken by Grandad Middleton" and you just think "Oh, no!"
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Everyone loves a baby, it is understandable,
0:43:08 > 0:43:13I am not against it, but it all went wrong with this picture.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16They could have had any photographer in the world take the picture
0:43:16 > 0:43:20and, frankly, there is a sense in which they should,
0:43:20 > 0:43:24because their job is to be glamorous, so, do that and be that.
0:43:24 > 0:43:29- Be Royal.- Fair play to him, he must have been so nervous taking it.
0:43:29 > 0:43:33To get two Kings in the picture is not something you do every day.
0:43:33 > 0:43:38That looks like a young nice happy family at it is a lovely picture and the dog is brilliant.
0:44:02 > 0:44:06I can remember it clearly, it was the middle of August.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09Normally known as the silly season, because nothing much goes on.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13There was an editorial conference, normally about 20 people in there.
0:44:13 > 0:44:19Picture editor put the pictures up on the screen and what is normally
0:44:19 > 0:44:23quite a raucous event, conference, was suddenly incredibly silent.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32On the 22nd of August, the Daily Mirror took the bold step
0:44:32 > 0:44:36of devoting its front page to this scene of a sarin gas attack
0:44:36 > 0:44:39on a village east of Damascus in Syria.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44I walked out of conference
0:44:44 > 0:44:46and physically started to draw the front page.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49What was so striking about the picture is that it was a picture
0:44:49 > 0:44:53of a number of dead children lying there,
0:44:53 > 0:44:54but to all intents and purposes,
0:44:54 > 0:44:59they didn't look like they were dead. They looked like they were asleep.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05It's so powerful, because it's children and because we can
0:45:05 > 0:45:09all imagine our children or our friends' children in such a way.
0:45:09 > 0:45:10These kids looked like they were in bed,
0:45:10 > 0:45:12they looked like they were asleep
0:45:12 > 0:45:14and yet, they weren't and it was
0:45:14 > 0:45:18stunning to think that this was happening in a modern world and using
0:45:18 > 0:45:22dead people on the front page of the newspaper is never taken lightly.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27The Mirror has a proud tradition of shock front pages
0:45:27 > 0:45:28or even whole editions.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35Because the victims looked so peaceful in this picture,
0:45:35 > 0:45:37the headline had to be explicit.
0:45:39 > 0:45:44I originally wrote a headline that was a lot softer, actually.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47From memory, I think it said, "The Sleeping Dead,"
0:45:47 > 0:45:50which is a very powerful headline, no question,
0:45:50 > 0:45:53but what it didn't really do was get across really quickly
0:45:53 > 0:45:56and really directly what we're talking about here
0:45:56 > 0:45:59and that is dead children and chemical weapons.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03And I think it was Peter Willis,
0:46:03 > 0:46:05who's the weekday editor of The Mirror,
0:46:05 > 0:46:09who said, quite strongly, "Now they're gassing children,"
0:46:09 > 0:46:11and that's it - Now They're Gassing Children -
0:46:11 > 0:46:12it was as simple as that.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19How you make stories accessible to people are, "It could be me,
0:46:19 > 0:46:22"I could be there," and the most important thing with Syria...
0:46:22 > 0:46:25It's when you feel empathy with that picture -
0:46:25 > 0:46:28that person in the picture, that person with just a dog,
0:46:28 > 0:46:32that person in the devastation, that person hanging by their fingernails.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35It's at that point that you get it and you understand,
0:46:35 > 0:46:36cos it could be you.
0:46:37 > 0:46:41The pictures helped keep Syria on the political agenda.
0:46:41 > 0:46:45The Prime Minister recalled Parliament to ask for support
0:46:45 > 0:46:48for military action in principle...but was defeated.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Assad agreed to take his chemical weapons out of use.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56But the fighting goes on.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Lloyd Embley's decision was brave.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05But, in hindsight, he knows it could have been braver.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15I do have one regret and that is that I didn't have the conviction
0:47:15 > 0:47:18to wipe out the entire front page.
0:47:18 > 0:47:22Right at the top of the front page, there was a Simon Cowell blurb
0:47:22 > 0:47:25and a Coleen blurb and, if I were doing it again,
0:47:25 > 0:47:28I would have taken the whole of the front page,
0:47:28 > 0:47:31I think that probably indicates how we possibly thought
0:47:31 > 0:47:33it might impact on our sales.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34Erm...
0:47:34 > 0:47:36but...that's the regret.
0:47:56 > 0:48:00NEWSREADER: The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility
0:48:00 > 0:48:03for the attack on a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06The Red Cross in Kenya says at least 30 people have been killed,
0:48:06 > 0:48:07including some children.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12September brought terror to somewhere that was both far away
0:48:12 > 0:48:15and yet, somehow close to home -
0:48:15 > 0:48:17a shopping centre.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52Goran Tomasevic has been photographing warzones
0:48:52 > 0:48:54for more than 20 years.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57But nothing he'd witnessed in Kosovo, Afghanistan,
0:48:57 > 0:49:01Libya or Syria prepared him for what he saw at his local shopping mall
0:49:01 > 0:49:06in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 21st of the month.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09GUNSHOTS
0:49:26 > 0:49:30Goran, seen here on CCTV, caught the moment
0:49:30 > 0:49:33when four-year-old Portia Walton ran into the arms
0:49:33 > 0:49:34of one of the rescuers.
0:49:52 > 0:49:58The attack left 67 people dead, including six from the UK.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03These set of pictures actually say a lot more than the words did on this.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06Because you can't... You look at the images
0:50:06 > 0:50:09and you realise this could have been you.
0:50:09 > 0:50:12This can happen anywhere.
0:50:12 > 0:50:17And the trauma and the pain and the children's faces
0:50:17 > 0:50:19and just the sheer panic.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21You can't say that in words
0:50:21 > 0:50:24and that's why these pictures are so strong.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29Terrorists understand the proliferation of images
0:50:29 > 0:50:32and they understand, if they do something,
0:50:32 > 0:50:34it doesn't have to be that big a thing.
0:50:34 > 0:50:38So long as it's horrific, so long as it's shock,
0:50:38 > 0:50:40so long as it's terrifying.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44We all, in some sense, collude with it.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46All of us.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49From television companies and newspapers,
0:50:49 > 0:50:54right through down to ordinary people who might take a picture,
0:50:54 > 0:50:57camera-phone picture, or share a picture.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01We can now feast on images as never before.
0:51:01 > 0:51:04And terrorism is the dark side of that feast.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28NEWSREADER: Police in Greece are trying to identify
0:51:28 > 0:51:30a four-year-old girl with blonde hair
0:51:30 > 0:51:33who they believe may have been snatched from her parents.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36They found her in a Roma settlement last Wednesday.
0:51:36 > 0:51:40In October, the Greek police began to circulate a photograph
0:51:40 > 0:51:43of a blonde, blue-eyed girl known as Maria
0:51:43 > 0:51:45they thought had been stolen from her parents.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51The image reminded editors and readers how much the country hoped
0:51:51 > 0:51:54another blue-eyed girl would one day be found.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Why we even looked at that story and, frankly,
0:51:58 > 0:52:00we probably wouldn't have done
0:52:00 > 0:52:02if it didn't have any echoes of Madeleine McCann.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04It makes you think again about,
0:52:04 > 0:52:08"Well, where do these little children come from? How did no-one notice?"
0:52:08 > 0:52:11And that's the power of that picture because immediately you're thinking,
0:52:11 > 0:52:15"There's something not quite right here, so I need to know."
0:52:15 > 0:52:18NEWSREADER: The mystery of Maria has been solved.
0:52:18 > 0:52:20The family of the blonde, Roma girl who's made the front pages
0:52:20 > 0:52:23all around the world has been traced.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27A DNA test later proved that the child was Roma
0:52:27 > 0:52:29and hadn't been abducted, after all.
0:52:29 > 0:52:32Her mother told reporters she had given Maria to another family
0:52:32 > 0:52:35because she was too poor to look after her.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38But with Roma scare stories at a premium,
0:52:38 > 0:52:40that wasn't what the press wanted to hear...
0:52:40 > 0:52:42and they largely ignored it.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09NEWSREADER: Hundreds of thousands of people across the Philippines
0:53:09 > 0:53:12have been forced from their homes by the impact of what could be
0:53:12 > 0:53:14the most powerful storm on record.
0:53:14 > 0:53:18Typhoon Haiyan flattened houses, brought down power lines,
0:53:18 > 0:53:19and caused floods.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24When Typhoon Haiyan struck the coast of the Philippines in November,
0:53:24 > 0:53:26over 6,000 people were killed.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33It was the worst typhoon in the country's history.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45When The Times needed to decide what picture to put on their front page,
0:53:45 > 0:53:49it was this photo of an unnamed boy that caught the eye
0:53:49 > 0:53:51of picture editor Sue Connolly.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55You should always look at the bigger picture
0:53:55 > 0:53:59and that sounds a bit corny, but who is he?
0:53:59 > 0:54:02Look at him, he's got a black eye, he's got nothing.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05Look behind him - it's desolate, absolutely desolate.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Where's he going to sleep?
0:54:08 > 0:54:10These are the questions that I'm asking
0:54:10 > 0:54:13and I'm putting that picture on the front.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15So, what are the readers asking?
0:54:15 > 0:54:18They want to know who he is, you know,
0:54:18 > 0:54:20and we did try and find him, but...
0:54:20 > 0:54:22we couldn't.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25But in this digital age, anything is possible.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29After the photo appeared on an appeals poster,
0:54:29 > 0:54:32an online campaign started.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35A Dutch journalist, Wouter van Cleef,
0:54:35 > 0:54:38tracked down the boy, with the help of Facebook users.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Joshua Cator is 11 years old.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45When the storm surge struck,
0:54:45 > 0:54:48he held on to a piece of plywood to keep himself afloat.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52His mother and sister died, but his father survived.
0:54:54 > 0:54:57You wouldn't walk past someone in the street and leave them lying there,
0:54:57 > 0:55:00you'd pick them up and help them and that's what good photography's about.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03It's that it explains it to you, it draws you in.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06Makes you look at a picture, makes you think about it.
0:55:27 > 0:55:32As the year came to an end on a busy Friday night in Glasgow,
0:55:32 > 0:55:34the BBC quoted Twitter,
0:55:34 > 0:55:37reporting a helicopter had crashed onto the Clutha music bar.
0:55:39 > 0:55:43Ten people were killed and there were many more seriously injured.
0:55:45 > 0:55:49A packed dance floor and a sudden impact from above.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52An image that will live with many for years.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56Sometimes news has to make you want to turn away,
0:55:56 > 0:55:58sometimes news has to give you an uncomfortable truth
0:55:58 > 0:56:01and sometimes news has to make you put yourself into a position
0:56:01 > 0:56:03that you wouldn't want to be in.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06And those pictures were exactly that.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09A complete horror in a very ordinary situation.
0:56:09 > 0:56:12Something that you wouldn't imagine would happen
0:56:12 > 0:56:15has happened and that's what pictures can do,
0:56:15 > 0:56:17that's the power of a news picture, it can put you in a place
0:56:17 > 0:56:20where you don't want to be and yet you can't help but think about.
0:56:26 > 0:56:29Also in December, those notorious pictures
0:56:29 > 0:56:34taken outside a London restaurant were back on the front pages.
0:56:34 > 0:56:38Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson, now divorced, appeared as witnesses
0:56:38 > 0:56:41in the prosecution of two of their former assistants.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47Lurid accusations have flown back and forth.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51In court, Nigella Lawson admitted
0:56:51 > 0:56:53that she had occasionally taken cocaine,
0:56:53 > 0:56:57which provoked further speculation about the incident at Scott's.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00But both she and her ex-husband
0:57:00 > 0:57:04deny they had been arguing about drugs.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08She said he had reacted to a remark about wanting grandchildren one day.
0:57:21 > 0:57:25The last image of the year dated back more than two decades
0:57:25 > 0:57:27and showed the outstanding impact
0:57:27 > 0:57:30Nelson Mandela made in life and in death.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33HE SPEAKS AFRIKAANS
0:57:33 > 0:57:36NEWSREADER: Nelson Mandela, the father of modern South Africa
0:57:36 > 0:57:38and the country's first black president, has died.
0:57:38 > 0:57:40He was 95.
0:57:42 > 0:57:45Regardless of who took them, international news crews
0:57:45 > 0:57:48or the people who came to pay their respects,
0:57:48 > 0:57:51these pictures paid tribute to a man whose image remains
0:57:51 > 0:57:53the most enduring of our times.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58Only his death could bring so many of the world's leaders
0:57:58 > 0:58:00and celebrities to one place
0:58:00 > 0:58:04and yet mean so much to millions of us in all corners of the globe.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection.
0:58:10 > 0:58:15Because he could be so full of good humour, even mischief,
0:58:15 > 0:58:18despite the heavy burdens that he carried
0:58:18 > 0:58:20that we loved him so.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24There was even time for a frivolous moment
0:58:24 > 0:58:27that would no doubt have drawn out one of his famous smiles.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31On Sunday, the 15th of December,
0:58:31 > 0:58:36South Africa's father of the nation was buried in his village of Qunu.
0:58:39 > 0:58:43As a year that brought a civil war abroad and terrorism at home
0:58:43 > 0:58:48came to an end, his message of hope and reconciliation
0:58:48 > 0:58:50had never been more needed.