Cherry Kearton
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Cherry Kearton, born in 1871 in Thwaite, England, was one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers and writers. Cherry died in 1940 after reading for the BBC's Children's Hour. The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award was created in his honor.
Cherry Kearton directed the following films:
- A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization (1911)
- Roosevelt in Africa (1910)
- Das Mirakel (1912). US title The Miracle
Cherry Kearton was a great animal photographer. In the summer of 1896 Cherry Kearton and his brother Richard, a naturalist, reached St Kilda and many other remote places. Three years later there was published in London by Cassell & Co. their famous book With Nature and a Camera, illustrated by no fewer than 160 photographs.
