Ian Berry (photojournalist)

Ian Berry ( born April 4, 1934 in Preston, Lancashire, England ) is an English photographer and photojournalist and a member of the photo agency Magnum Photos.

Berry was since his youth inspired by the desire to become a journalist and worked as an amateur photographer. In 1952 he moved to South Africa and worked for local newspapers such as the Daily Mail, and the magazine Drum. Berry made ​​numerous photo essays about the Congo and the Algerian crisis; Moreover, he toured the Middle East and the Far East.

Berry in 1978 vice-president of the Magnum agency.

Work

Ian Berry sees his work as a photographer always in a humanistic and socio-critical context, which is to serve exclusively a detailed, documentary reporting. As already Magnum founder Robert Capa or photographer colleague James Nachtwey ( also Magnum Member) Berry raised here and head directly to the pictorial event. Always the emotions of those affected in the viewfinder keeping, the photographer also the distance to the photographed event attempted to maintain. For example, show his picture documents about the riots in Northern Ireland early 70s ostensibly the horror or the pain in the faces of the participants. Berry photographed his work mostly black and white, so these images live primarily by their dynamism and expressiveness and are an energetic plea for Berry's political and social humanism.