Willie Carson
Willie Carson (1926 – 6 October 1996) was a Northern Irish photo-journalist. Willie Carson was born in Derry, his photographs were published throughout the world at the height of The Troubles. In 1945, Carson began working as a salesman for the local Derry Journal newspaper.
Willie Carson
- Born
- Willie Carson was born on 16 July 1926.
- Died
- Willie Carson died on 6 October 1996.
- Occupation
- photojournalist · photographer
- Languages
- English
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Willie Carson (1926 – 6 October 1996) was a Northern Irish photo-journalist. Willie Carson was born in Derry, his photographs were published throughout the world at the height of The Troubles. In 1945, Carson began working as a salesman for the local Derry Journal newspaper.
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He worked at the newspaper for 11 years before deciding to become a freelance photographer. Carson was the author of several books about life in Derry, including Derry Thru The Lens, Yesterday, A Decade and a Half and So this was Derry. He died on 6 October 1996, aged 70, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in July 1995. In 2006, a posthumous collection of his photographic work named after his first book of 1976 - Derry Thru The Lens: Refocus - was published by Guildhall Press, in co-operation with Carson's family.
The recorded working language is English.
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1926
Willie Carson was born on 16 July 1926.
1996
Willie Carson died on 6 October 1996.
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