Stuart Heydinger (5 May 1927 – 6 October 2019) was a British photojournalist and portrait photographer. [1] He was chief photographer at The Observer from 1960 to 1966. [1]
Heydinger was born in Kingston upon Thames, south west London. [1]
In 1960 he joined The Observer as chief photographer until he quit in 1966. [1] He freelanced until 1968. [1] In the early 1970s he travelled in the Basque country, drawing, painting and photographing people. [1] In 1979 he moved to Germany where he worked taking photographs for theatres and made landscape photographs. [1]