Wedding photographer Gordon Jack passed away yesterday after a freak accident on Friday at the wedding rehearsal of tennis superstar Andy Murray.
IBTimes reports that Jack was at the Dunblane Cathedral in central Scotland on Friday when Murray and fiancee Kim Sears arrived for a dress rehearsal to prepare for their wedding the next day.
@andy_murray nice day for a white wedding! #dunblane #kimsears pic.twitter.com/2GNm7B8Tdr
— Gordon Jack (@scotimage) April 10, 2015
Hope the weather holds! @andy_murray #dunblane #weddingbells pic.twitter.com/EyaFBXYFzT
— Gordon Jack (@scotimage) April 10, 2015
Jack was walking backwards and taking pictures of the couple from just a few feet away when he tripped and hit his head on a gravestone while falling. The 47-year-old photographer was knocked unconscious, and an ambulance was called in to rush him to a nearby hospital, where he passed away the following afternoon.
Tributes are now pouring in for the photographer after the freak accident, including from Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who took to Twitter to offer her condolences:
Totally devastated to hear about the death of Gordon Jack. A lovely man and a great photographer. My thoughts with his family & colleagues
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) April 11, 2015
Our condolences to the wife and children of Gordon Jack who has died after a fall at Dunblane Cathedral covering Andy Murray’s wedding
— NUJ Scotland (@NUJScotland) April 11, 2015
Jack had been widely published for his editorial and PR services since 1997 before expanding into documentary wedding photography in 2002.
Image credits: Header photograph by Gordon Milligan
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.