Category: Obituaries
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Editorial Photographers UK | Photographer killed in South Ossetia
Alexander Klimchuk has become the first photographer to die in the war in South Ossetia. He was 27. Check it out here.
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Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 – NYTimes.com
Solzhenitsyn’s unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union’s slave labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international renown. And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person’s courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery…
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Times of London Photojournalist Dies in Zimbabwe
Richard Mills, a contract photographer for The Times of London who followed British troops to the front lines in Afghanistan, watched fighters train in Somalia, and documented suffering children in Zimbabwe, was found dead July 14. Check it out here.
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Sarah Becking, 1972-2008
This post has been slow in coming, because I don’t know what to say. Sarah Becking, one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, died on July 7th. She was a photographer in Columbia, and was working for the Sports Info department Check it out here.
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Who Murdered Trent Keegan?
Whoever beat Trent Keegan to death probably wanted his computer. But why would robbers leave money in his pockets? Questions like this trouble the friends and family of Keegan, 33, a New Zealand photojournalist who was murdered while working in Nairobi, Kenya last month. Check it out here.
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Documentary Photographer John Ranard Dies – PDN Pulse
Documentary photographer John Ranard has died of liver cancer at the age of 56. Ranard covered topics including post-Soviet Russia, his own ailments and New York’s ethnic communities. He received first place in the 55th annual Pictures of the Year International contest for his work documenting the potential of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in post-Soviet Russia.…
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Republic photographer, Pulitzer winner dies
Angela Cara Pancrazio, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who later became a well-respected writer and storyteller, died Thursday night at her home in Phoenix. She was 51 years old. Pancrazio was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in May of 2007. Check it out here. Via PDNPulse.
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The search for Sean Flynn continues: mensvogue.com
The first time my father told me about Sean Flynn’s disappearance, I felt as if a spider had walked down my spine. “Just gone?” I said, looking down at a picture that was taken of Sean hours before he vanished into the Cambodian countryside in April 1970 — a heart-stoppingly handsome young man on a…
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Cornell Capa
Quote: “One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.” Check it out here.
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Cornell Capa, 90, photojournalist – International Herald Tribune
Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York after a long and distinguished career as a photojournalist, first on the staff of Life magazine and then as a member of Magnum Photos, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 90. Check it out here.
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Cornell Capa 1918-2008
Accomplished Magnum photographer Cornell Capa passed away early on the morning of May 23rd at home in New York. Check it out here.
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His Eyes Saw the Prize Early – washingtonpost.com
During his long career as a photographer, Flip Schulke covered wars, presidents, rocket launches and the great human drama of the civil rights movement in the American South. But people always asked about one picture in particular: Muhammad Ali standing underwater. Check it out here.
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Flip Schulke, award-winning photgrapher from West Palm Beach, dies at 77
In his more than 60 years behind the lens, Flip Schulke photographed figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Jacques Cousteau, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, and John F. Kennedy. He created more than 500,000 photographs — 11,000 of those from the civil rights movement. “I called him The Legend,”…
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Photojournalist pays with life to capture live gun battle
Photojournalist Ashok Sodhi ran ahead of his colleagues and ignored police warnings as he ventured forth to capture pictures of the house where militants were holed up, firing at security forces Sunday morning. Sodhi died in the exchange of fire. “He ignored all warnings and stood right in front of the house from where the…
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Photography student who pictured notorious suicide sites for university project is found hanging from a tree | the Daily Mail
A 21-year-old student who was carrying out a project photographing sites where people commit suicide was found hanging from a tree, an inquest heard today. Christian Drane, originally from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was studying at Southampton Solent University when his body was discovered in woods in the Polygon area of the Hampshire city on March…
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Friends And Family Remember Alexandra Boulat
VII Photo hosted an intimate and emotional gathering in New York Thursday for friends and family of Alexandra Boulat, who died Oct. 5. Boulat, a conflict photojournalist and a founding member of VII, suffered a brain aneurysm last June while working in Gaza and never recovered. She died in Paris, where she was with her…
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Today's Pictures: In Memoriam: Burt Glinn, 1925-2008
Beloved Magnum photographer Burt Glinn passed away early in the morning on April 9. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Glinn served in the U.S. Army from 1943-46 before studying literature at Harvard University, where he edited and took photographs for the Harvard Crimson. From 1949-50, Glinn worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer. He covered…
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Reuters Video Photojournalist Fadel Shana, 23, Killed In Gaza Blast
Reuters video photojournalist Fadel Shana, 23, was killed today on his way to cover a news story. When the Reuters TV vehicle that he and a soundman were traveling in stopped, Shana got out to start shooting and almost immediately an explosion killed him and two bystanders. Check it out here.
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The Dauntless Spirit – Philip Jones Griffiths: 1936-2008
Peter Howe: f you knew Wales, you knew Philip Jones Griffiths. To the end of his life he remained true to his Welshness, which defined him with a power that few environments exert. Both he and his birthplace are rife with contradictions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful land, and relentlessly bleak, a land of strong…