Charles Kinkead

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Charles Kinkead OD (3 October 1913 – 1 June 2007) was a Jamaican photojournalist and journalist.

Kinkead 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 "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 at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines.^[1] He was 93 when he died and was survived by his wife and five children.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Veteran photographer Charles Kinkead dies". The Jamaica Gleaner. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-12.

External links

The Jamaica Gleaner: Veteran photographer Charles Kinkead dies

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Name	Kinkead, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	Jamaican photographer
Date of birth	3 October 1913
Place of birth
Date of death	1 June 2007
Place of death

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