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George Rodger
George Rodger (Born 1908 in Hale, died 1995 in Ashford) was one of the 20th century's most important photojournalists.
About The Artist
George Rodger was one of the 20th century’s most important photojournalists. In 1949 he founded Magnum together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David “Chim” Seymour.
As a boy, Rodger dreamt of becoming a writer. Later on, he joined the merchant navy, wrote meticulous diaries and took up photography to illustrate his travelogues.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Rodger decided to chronicle it. His now famous images taken during The Blitz gained him a job as a war correspondent for Life magazine and he became the war’s most travelled photographer, covering battles in Africa, Italy and Burma, as well as the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland.
He was also the first photographer to enter the concentration Bergen-Belsen.
Rodger was deeply traumatized by the horrors he had documented in the camp and swore he would never again work as a war correspondent. To heal himself, he embarked on a long photographic expedition through Africa where he documented tribes’ people in extraordinary images, including the Nuba, images that have since become iconic.
Diemar/Noble Photography will present a major retrospective of Rodger’s work towards the end of 2009.
