Mohamed amin biography
Mohamed amin biography
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Mohamed Amin
Kenyan photojournalist (1943–1996)
This article is about the Kenyan photojournalist. For other people, see Mohammed Amin (disambiguation).
Mohamed AminMBE (29 August 1943 – 23 November 1996) was a Kenyanphotojournalist.
Amin's filming of Michael Buerk's report of the 1984 Ethiopian famine brought international attention to the crisis and eventually helped start the charity wave that resulted in Live Aid concerts.[1]
Amin died in November 1996 when his flight Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore.
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Life and work
Amin was born on 29 August 1943 in Eastleigh, Nairobi. He developed an interest in photography at school.[2]
He founded the Camerapix company in 1963 in Dar es Salaam and moved the company to Nairobi three years later.
During the 1970s, he became one of the most relied-upon African news photographers,[2] reporting on wars and coups all through the continent, a