Priya Ramrakha
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Priya Ramrakha (january 31, 1935 – october 2, 1968) was an Indo-Kenyan photojournalist.[1][2]
Career
Ramrakha was one of the first Africans to have been given a contract by Life and Time magazines.[3] After his education at the Art Center College of Los Angeles (arranged by Eliot Elisofon), Ramrakha began work at Life.[4] In 1963, Ramrakha returned to Africa to cover the independence movement in his native Kenya, as one of East Africa's first Indigenous photojournalists. Ramrakha then went on to cover political and military movements across Africa.
In 1968, while covering the Nigerian Civil War with CBS correspondent Morley Safer, Ramrakha was fatally wounded in an ambush near Owerri in Imo state by Biafran soldiers. A week later, Life magazine dedicated an article to Ramrakha (Vol. 65, n°15, october 11th, page 46).
The documentary film African Lens: The Story of Priya Ramrakha was released in 2007.[5]
In 2019, a Kickstarter project funded the production and printing of a photobook dedicated to Ramrakha's life and work.[4]
References
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- ↑ Vidyarthi, Shravan. The Man Behind the PictureTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".; The Sunday Standard, Nairobi, Kenya, 17 October 2004. Accessed 29 January 2007.
- ↑ https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/showcase-finding-priya-ramrakha Showcase: Finding Priya Ramrakha The New York Times
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Further reading
- Vidyarthi, Shravan and Erin Haney. 2018. Priya Ramrakha. The Recovered Archive. Tübingen: Kehrer. Template:ISBN