Chris Mangion

Chris Mangion

Chris Mangion is MaltaToday’s photojournalist, joining the newspaper in 2013.

In 1995 his photos of the Um El Faroud tanker explosion at the Malta Drydocks were the first to reach the media, landing him his first job in the press at Independence Press (now Media.Link).

In 1996 he joined The People newspaper and in 1998 was awarded a Licentiate in Press and Public Relations Photography by the Masters Association UK, at 22 years of age the youngest photographer in Europe to achieve such a licentiate, at the time.

Mangion’s work has been published by the EPA, CNN, The Guardian and Demotix. Apart from commercial photography, Mangion also MotoGP and World Superbike races in Silverstone and Donington Park, and in Valencia, Spain. Commercial assignments for private companies too him to Tunisia, the Sahara Desert and Palma de Mallorca.

Articles by this author
Drug trafficker guilty of Rachel Bowdler’s involuntary homicide 13 years ago
Court & Police
David Gatt pleads guilty to the involuntary homicide of 18-year-old Rachel Bowdler who died of an overdose in 2001.
Piper Lance victim’s heirs awarded €288,000 in damages
Court & Police
19 years after mysterious tragedy claimed six lives, heirs awarded damages by court