Queen Elizabeth II smiling at children waving Kenyan flags and the Union Jack, alighting from the "Royal Train" or shaking hands with a curious little boy -- are all previously unseen images from an enormous archive taken by celebrated photojournalist Mohamed Amin. She learnt the news of her father's death while on her first visit to the former British colony in 1952. A prolific journalist whose heartbreaking images of the Ethiopian famine in 1984 brought global attention to the crisis, Amin shot some three million photographs. In 1992, Amin was honoured by the queen and made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Last year, Google Arts & Culture established an online archive to catalogue his work in collaboration with the Mohamed Amin Foundation.

Source: Ethiopian News September 18, 2022 04:14 UTC