Charles Kinkead

Charles Kinkead OD (3 October 1913 – 1 June 2007) was a Jamaican photojournalist and journalist, whose career spanned more than four decades.

Born Charles Harold Austin Kinkead, he 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 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, aged 93, at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines.[1] He was survived by his wife and five children.[1] A service of thanksgiving for his life was held on 14 June 2007 at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town, Jamaica.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Veteran photographer Charles Kinkead dies". The Jamaica Gleaner. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Journalists hail Charles Kinkead at thanksgiving service", Jamaica Observer, 15 June 2007.

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