D.E. Jennings Black & White Photo Wins The 1820 Settlers Handicap Race

Derek Eric Jennings, Race Car Driver, Black and White Photograph, Taken By, Ian G. Berry, Race Car #27 (Riley) Crosses The Finish Line To Win The 1820 Settlers Handicap Race.

The 1820 Settlers were several groups or parties of British colonists settled by the British government and the Cape authorities in the South African Eastern Cape in 1820. The group accounted for about 4000 British citizens arriving in the Cape between April and June of 1820, and settling mostly in the area known today as the Eastern Cape, or the Albany district as it was referred to in 1820.

Ian Berry made his reputation as a photojournalist reporting from South Africa, where he worked for the Sunday Times and Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville. While based in Paris he was invited to join Magnum by Henri Cartier-Bresson. He moved to London to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. He has covered, conflict in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia and Congo, famine in Ethiopia and apartheid in South Africa. He has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR.

Awards include Nikon Photographer of the Year (twice), Picture of the Year award from the National Press Photographers of America, and British Press Magazine Photographer of the Year (twice). Arts Council Award, Art Directors' Club of New York Award.

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