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Mohamed Amin was born on 29 August, 1943 in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya Colony, is a Kenyan photojournalist (1943–1996). Discover Mohamed Amin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?
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Photojournalist |
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53 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
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29 August, 1943 |
| Birthday |
29 August |
| Birthplace |
Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya Colony |
| Date of death |
23 November, 1996 |
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Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros |
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Kenya
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Mohamed Amin Height, Weight & Measurements
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Mohamed Amin Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mohamed Amin worth at the age of 53 years old? Mohamed Amin’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Kenya. We have estimated Mohamed Amin's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Mohamed Amin (29 August 1943 – 23 November 1996) was a Kenyan photojournalist.
Amin was born on 29 August 1943 in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
He developed an interest in photography at school.
He founded the Camerapix company in 1963 in Dar es Salaam and moved the company to Nairobi three years later.
During the 1970s, he became one of the most relied-upon African news photographers, reporting on wars and coups all through the continent, and his pictures were often used by Western news media.
He covered the Palestinian Black September uprising to seize control of Jordan in September 1970.
He was able to move among the Palestinian forces where Western journalists could not.
Amin's filming of Michael Buerk's report of the 1984 Ethiopian famine brought international attention to the crisis and eventually helped start the charity wave that resulted in Live Aid concerts.
Amin's most influential moment came when his filming, along with Michael Buerk's reporting of the 1984 Ethiopian famine brought international attention to the crisis and eventually helped start the charity wave that resulted in Live Aid concerts.
Apart from Ethiopian famine, he contributed exclusive photos of the fall of Idi Amin and of Mengistu Haile Mariam, and was author of numerous books, including Journey Through Pakistan, Pilgrimage to Mecca, and covered various themes like East African Wildlife and the Uganda Railway.
Amin also published issues of Selamta, the Ethiopian Airlines in-flight magazine.
Amin was not only active in Africa, but also in the Middle East.
In 1991, Amin lost his left arm during an ammunition dump explosion in Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Civil War.
Amin died in November 1996 when his flight Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore.
Amin boarded Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 on 23 November 1996, with 61-year-old Briton Brian Tetley, a colleague who wrote the text for Amin's photography books, to travel to Nairobi after a business trip to Ethiopia.
Hijackers stormed the cockpit of ET-AIZ, the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing B767-260ER used for the flight, and forced the pilot, Leul Abate, to fly east over the Indian Ocean to Australia.
Amin attempted to rally the passengers to attack the hijackers and confronted the hijackers, trying to stop the scenario.
ET-AIZ ran out of fuel and Abate ditched the aircraft off the coast of the Comoros Islands.
ET-AIZ broke into pieces, and as Amin was standing, his body hit the airplane wall causing his death.
Tetley also did not survive the crash.
In June 2006, Mo and Me, an Al Jazeera documentary film about Amin was premiered.
It won Best International Documentary at the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Al Jazeera and Camerapix funded the film.
Amin's son, Salim Amin, runs the Camerapix company as of 2008.
Mo Amin is the inspiration for the A24 news channel, a proposed independent pan-African 24-hour 'African voice for Africa' which commenced broadcasting from Nairobi on 19 September 2008.
Mohamed Amin worked with numerous journalists and writers, including Tahir Shah and Colin Blane, as well as Michael Buerk.
