As a civil servant in the Cyprus Administration and as an officer during the war Reno Wideson always held positions which involved extensive travelling all over the island . He was given an opportunity to make good use of his passion for photography when he was appointed to the newly created Tourist Development Office in 1949 . His pictures appeared regularly in the Cyprus Calendar , tourist promotion brochures and illustrations in books , newspapers and magazines worldwide . In 1956 he was appointed Head of Films of the experimental Cyprus Broadcasting Television Service . In 1960 he joined the B.B.C. in London as Film Operations Manager , Television . In that department he held various senior positions until 1977 when as Head of Film Operations he took early retirement in order to devote more time to painting and photography .

' Mr. Wideson would rightly wish it to be known that he is a Greek Cypriot , in spite of his English name . This he inherited from his father , Mr. Odysseus Evryviades of Larnaca , who adopted the pen-name of Wideson when editor of the school magazine at Canon Newham's English School at Nicosia and has since used it indifferently with his Greek patronymic , of which it is a literal translation .'

Sir Andrew Wright , KCMG, CBE, MC

Introduction to Cyprus in Picture

By Reno Wideson (1953)