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George William Adam Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist. He was noted for his work in Africa, and for photographing mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the end of the World War II.
Born in Cheshire in 1908, George Rodger served in the British Merchant Navy. After a short spell in America, he worked as a photographer for the BBC’s The Listener magazine, followed in 1938 by a brief stint working for the Black Star Agency.
George Rodger was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and spent his childhood in Cheshire and in Scotland. He attended St. Bee’s College, Cumbria but left early to join the British Merchant Navy, spending two years travelling the world.
George Rodger began photographing while in the British merchant marine, under whose auspices he traveled around the world twice between 1927 and 1929. Subsequently he worked in America as a machinist, wool-buyer, steel-rigger and in other occupations before returning to England in 1936.
Mar 5, 2017 · George Rodger A young Korongo Nuba girl carrying local beer in a gourd upon her head. The cicatrice designs on her chest are made by cutting the flesh and rubbing in wood ash. Kordofan, Sudan. 1949. © George Rodger | Magnum Photos
Jul 17, 2022 · With his disillusionment with war and conflict photography, George Rodger’s work leaned toward the vanishing life of tribes and animals in Africa. He documented the ethnic peoples in hard to get to places. Kordofan. George Rodger filmed the Nuba tribe in Southern Sudan in 1949.
George William Adam Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist. He was noted for his work in Africa, and for photographing mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the end of the World War II.
Jul 26, 1995 · George Rodger, a pioneering photojournalist who covered World War II for Life magazine and later helped to found the Magnum photo agency, died today in his home in southern England. He was 87.
George Rodger Liberation of Damascus by the free French forces led by General Dentz. Damascus, Syria. 1941. © George Rodger | Magnum Photos. Driven by a restlessness and desire to adventure, Rodger initially had aspirations to become a writer, so text dominates his early documentation of these travels.
Jan 15, 2018 · George Rodger. Jinx Rodger accompanied her husband on a 4,000-mile journey across the Sahara desert. The four founders of Magnum Photos, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson,...
