Alison Webster (photographer)

Alison Webster
Born Alison Valda Webster[1]
Nationality British
Occupation Photographer
Employer The Sun newspaper
News Corp UK
Predecessor Alan Strutt
Spouse(s) Geoff Webster
Children Charlie Jacks[2]
and Benjamin E. Jacks[1]
Website alisonwebster.co.uk

Alison Valda Webster[1] is the official Page 3 photographer for The Sun newspaper.[3] Webster has worked in the British national newspaper industry for 30 years,[4] and has been the principal Page 3 photographer since 2005.[3]

Controversy

Campaigners against the Page 3 feature include the campaign group, No More Page 3. When asked about the campaign Webster said that, "people should be able to make their own choices."[3] She has also commented, "The photographs have stayed the same for 40 years. They've not got any more explicit. It staggers me that some, particularly young people, still have an issue with them. ... The argument is the wrong way round. If you have a problem with your body, if, as a child, you grew up with certain body issues, then I can see how Page Three could affect you. But if you are comfortable with yourself then it will have no effect on you at all."[5]

Private life

Webster is married to the deputy editor of The Sun, Geoff Webster, who was cleared in March 2015, along with colleagues, of making illegal payments to public officials after a trial at the Old Bailey. The journalists had been charged as part of Operation Elveden.[6]

Webster nearly died as a result of blood clots causing pulmonary hypertension, but was operated on in 2011.[7]

See also

Media offices
Preceded by
Alan Strutt		 Page 3 photographer The Sun
2011–present 		Incumbent

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Electoral Roll records from 2009–13". 192.com. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Sturgess, Trevor, business editor (6 January 2012). "Meet the Page Three girls snapper". Kent Business. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Jukes, Peter (22 April 2013). "The End of Rupert Murdoch's Page 3 Girl?". Newsweek. in The Daily Beast. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Vellacott, James (9 August 2010). "Page Three photography". ePHOTOzine. Magezine Publishing. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Rehman, Najeeb (17 September 2012). "Should Page Three be banned?". Body Confidential. Confidential Publishing. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sun journalists cleared in payments trial". BBC News. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Haywood, Lynsey (14 June 2012). "Surgeons froze me to save my life". The Sun (me). Retrieved 8 September 2013.

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