Showcase: Finding Priya Ramrakha – Lens Blog

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Showcase: Finding Priya Ramrakha

The work of a pioneering Kenyan photojournalist is rediscovered by a relative with hopes of finding a broader audience.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/showcase-finding-priya-ramrakha/

Priya Ramrakha was killed 41 years ago on a roadside while covering the Nigerian Civil War for Time-Life.

This Kenyan photojournalist was among the first African contract photographers for arguably the world’s most famous picture magazine. He chronicled the rapid decline of the independence movements in Zanzibar, Congo, Rhodesia, South Africa, Aden and Nigeria in beautiful, haunting and humanizing images.