Doug Ball

For the New Zealand school inspector and educational administrator, see Doug Ball (school inspector).

Doug Ball is a Canadian photojournalist.

Famous photos

• Robert Stanfield's fumble.^[1] Doug Ball 1974 photo of Conservative Leader/candidate fumbling a football is said to have cost him (and the Conservative Party) the election. The Canadian Press sent the picture across Canada where the photo was played on many front pages.
• Pierre Trudeau's pirouette.^[2] The 1977 photo shows Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, in Buckingham Palace, doing a pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth II and members of the G7 at the Summit Conference in London, England.^[3] This photo is arguably the most famous photo of Trudeau. "The picture, we have been led to believe, expresses his maverick anti-conformism, his democratic disdain for aristocratic pomp."^[4]