Priya Ramrakha - a photo book from a forgotten archive

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From a long-hidden archive, rediscovered photos from one of Africa's most storied and influential photojournalists. - About Priya RamrakhaPriya Ramrakha was a Kenyan photojournalist and one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. He rose to international fame as one of the first African photographers published in Time magazine and Life magazine. After he was killed on assignment in Biafra, Nigeria in 1968, Priya Ramrakha’s photographic legacy seemed to evaporate.  The BookFour decades later in Nairobi, K ...

Read More enya, we found his prints and negatives, covered in dust and all but forgotten. We then spent over ten years compiling his archive of more than 100,000 images from around the globe.In his short life he worked intensely, documenting the hopes and the chaos of independence movements in Zanzibar, Congo

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