Charles Kinkead, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Kinkead

Jamaican photographer

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1913

Date of Death: 01-Jun-2007

Profession: photographer, journalist

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Charles Kinkead OD (3 October 1913 – 1 June 2007) was a Jamaican photojournalist and journalist, whose career spanned more than four decades. Born Charles Harold Austin Kinkead, he worked as a news photographer for a number of Jamaican publications during his career.
Among the newspapers who he worked for were The Gleaner, the Jamaica Standard, the Daily News, and the Jamaica Times, a weekly newspaper publication.While working at the Daily News, Kinkead won the Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award in 1973.
In 1978, Kinkead also won a national Jamaican award, the Order of Distinction, "for his contribution in the field of photo-journalism".Kinkead moved to Florida in the 1980s to retire.
He died of a stroke on 1 June 2007, aged 93, at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines.
He was survived by his wife and five children.
A service of thanksgiving for his life was held on 14 June 2007 at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town, Jamaica.