About Me
Welcome to SportsForAllPics.co.uk, a collection of high quality professional sports photographs of athletics, football, golf and more.
All photographs are taken by and are the property of David Hewitson, for information on buying or publishing these pictures please e-mail me at sportsforallpics@dhewitson.wanadoo.co.uk.
A bit about me:
- David T. Hewitson
- Freelance Sports Photographer
- Sports Library
- 1988, 1991 and 1997 Northern Sports Photographer of the Year
- 1992 and 1994 Northern Sports photograph of the Year
- Born Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
- Schooled in Scotland and England
- Played football, cricket, athletics and cross-country for my school's.
- Represented Northumberland at Cross-country level while at Hexham Middle School
- After leaving school joined Elswick Harriers (we had an extremely successful Boys', Youth and Junior teams, beating our arch rivals Gateshead Harriers on many occasions)
- After leaving school worked for the Hexham Courant newspaper, the Newcastle Journal (twice), the Greek liner "Australis" (2 trips round the world), lived in Australia for 6 months where i worked on farms (being the son of a farmer, no problem)
As a Freelance photographer have worked for:
- EMPICS Photo Agency, Nottingham: Carlisle United Football Club (action photos for the programme and team and individual photos from the Photo-call for 7 years); Alan Pascoe Associates (mainly athletics); Uncle Bens (Master Foods), mainly photographing swimming; had photographs reproduced in most of the National newspapers, in particular the Indepndent on Sunday; local newspapers: The Newcastle Journal and Evening Chronicle and six months with the Sunday Sun; Northern Echo, Hartlepool Mail and Hexham Courant; Athletics Weekly, Runners World and Today Runner; North-East Golfer and numerous other businesses.
- Covered the 1991 Rugby World Cup (Twickenham and Murrayfield), World Student Games (Sheffield) European Athletics Cup, Gateshead (twice) and English Federation of Disability Sports (athletics and football), Boxing News.