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John Burke (photographer)
19th-century British photographer in India and Afghanistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Burke (c. 1843 ā 1900) was am Irish photographer, best known for his photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War between 1878 and 1880. He was born in Ireland, around 1843, where he was a tradesman. He applied for a job in the British Army as an official photographer but travelled to Afghanistan at his own expense[1][2] using heavy cameras that would have needed transporting on pack animals[3] through mountainous regions. Burke was the first significant photographer of Afghanistan.[citation needed] He died in 1900. Burke's photographs have been grouped in albums with those of Benjamin Simpson and other photographers, so definitive attribution is not possible for some of his works.
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Died | 1900 |
Nationality | Irish |
Occupation | Photographer |
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