Magnum Remembers Philip Jones Griffiths

While tending to her lawn with what appears to be a vacuum cleaner, a woman in a housecoat glances at the machine gun-toting British soldier crouched behind a bush in her backyard. It’s just another day in Northern Ireland in 1973 as captured by Philip Jones Griffiths, the Welsh-born photojournalist who died yesterday at the age of 72. Griffiths, who joined Magnum Photos in 1966 and served as the agency’s president in the 1980s, started his career freelancing for the London Observer and went on to cover the Algerian War, the Vietnam War, and the Yom Kippur War.