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Family, football and photography

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SNAP-HAPPY: Including his three years as a cadet, Paul Rickard has, over a total of more than 36 years, and counting, snapped tens of thousands of photographs for The Gisborne Herald, capturing events from sports games and wedding anniversaries, to the 2002 grounding of log ship the Jody F Millennium and 2007’s catastrophic earthquake. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell

In the lead-up to the charity golf tournament he’s worked on for nearly 20 years, The Gisborne Herald chief photographer Paul Rickard reflects on more than 50 years of photography, sport, and the ‘widowmaker’ that could have ended it all.

When Paul “Rick” Rickard suffered a heart attack in the early hours of June 8 last year he was in the waiting room of Gisborne Hospital’s emergency...

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