https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/priya-ramrakhas-brief-heroic-life-as-a-conflict-photographer-in-africa-and-beyond
Priya Ramrakha was an Indo-Kenyan photojournalist who you could say was one of the first native-born Africans to be given a contract by Life and Time magazines. Often he would capture a lot of ongoing conflicts affecting Africa throughout the 1960s. A lot what he captured in Africa would have to deal with wars, civil unrests, and culture that is relevant to individual regions in Africa. Even though Africa was his major focus, he would also Photograph important public figures like Kennedy, Malcolm X, Salvador Dali etc. Though he was a nationally and critically acclaimed photographer he would end up being killed in 1968 while covering the Nigerian Civil War, Ramrakha was killed in an ambush near Owerri in Imo state by Biafran soldiers. Overall I like Ramrakha bodies of work, I like the subjects he likes to cover and I have mad respect for him as well he was a man who lived and died for his art.
http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/housebroken-areca-roe/
In this series, Housebroken the photographer Areca Roe photographs unusual pets in their domestic environments in a funny and bazaar relationships of people with their non-human companions explores our humanistic desire to be close with animals. In these photographs the autonomy and individuality of the pets are in the foreground, and human presence is minimized. There is also a tension between the apparent wildness of the creature and its tame, mundane surroundings of soft textures and clutter.
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