George Rodger

Ask most photographers what they know about George Rodger (1908-1995) and they’ll tell you that he was one of the founders of Magnum. After that, they are most likely to recall either his war photographs or his post-war African work. He worked in more theatres of war than magazine, he covered conflict in West Africa and Burma, the Italian landings, the D-Day landings in Normandy, and subsequently the liberation of much of Europe including Paris. He was also one of the first photographers into Belsen; which leads directly to his African photography.