Charles Kinkead
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Jamaican English Charles Kinkead OD (3 October 1913 – 1 June 2007) was a Jamaican photojournalist and journalist, whose career spanned more than four decades.
Born Charles Harold Austin Kinkead, he worked as a news photographer for a number of Jamaican publications during his career. Among the newspapers who he worked for were The Gleaner, the Jamaica Standard, the Daily News, and the Jamaica Times, a weekly newspaper publication.[1]
While working at the Daily News, Kinkead won the Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award in 1973.[1] In 1978, Kinkead also won a national Jamaican award, the Order of Distinction, "for his contribution in the field of photo-journalism".[1]
Kinkead moved to Florida in the 1980s to retire.[1] He died of a stroke on 1 June 2007, aged 93, at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines.[1] He was survived by his wife and five children.[1] A service of thanksgiving for his life was held on 14 June 2007 at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town, Jamaica.[2]
References
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External links
- "Veteran photographer Charles Kinkead dies",The Jamaica Gleaner, 8 June 2007.