Inspired by George Rodger, Leni Riefenstahl headed out into the Sudan to document the Nuba. A feud between the two followed.
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Nuba Wrestlers by George Rodger, 1951
In 1947, the same year he co-founded Magnum, George Rodger off across Africa on an assignment for National Geographic. While travelling in the Kordofan region of the Sudan, Rodger and his wife Cicely learnt of the Nubas, a people who lived as their ancestors had lived millennia before.
Food Theft
` In 1998, yielding to the international pressure, the Sudanese government allowed good aid to […]
Vulture Stalking a Child
In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod.