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.
Charles Kinkead
- Name
- Charles Kinkead
- Birth Name
- Charles Harold Austin Kinkead
- Born
- 1913-10-03
- Died
- 2007-06-01
- Place of death
- Florida, United States
- Occupation
- Photojournalist, journalist
- Awards
- Order of Distinction Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award (1973)
- Nationality
- Jamaica
- Honours
- Order of Distinction
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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.
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While working at the Daily News, Kinkead won the Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award in 1973. In 1978, Kinkead also won a national Jamaican award, the Order of Distinction, "for his contribution in the field of photo-journalism". Kinkead moved to Florida in the 1980s to retire. He died of a stroke on 1 June 2007, aged 93, at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines. He was survived by his wife and five children. A service of thanksgiving for his life was held on 14 June 2007 at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
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• Name — Charles Kinkead • Birth Name — Charles Harold Austin Kinkead • Born — 1913-10-03 • Died — 2007-06-01 • Place of death — Florida, United States • Occupation — Photojournalist, journalist • Awards — Order of Distinction Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award (1973)
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