This exhibition comprises rare, vintage black & white portraits, selected from Rodger’s iconic work made in Africa, between 1947 and the late 1970’s. It includes previously unseen prints from his personal archive, and a unique set of valuable prints of his most famous body of work from this period: The Nuba Wrestlers.
During the war, Rodger worked as a war correspondent in Britain, North Africa, Iran, Burma, Italy, and later, was the first photographer to enter the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.
In an effort to repair his own spirit and restore his faith in mankind after the torrid war years, he set off, in 1947, on a 28,000-mile overland journey from Cape Town to Cairo, "to get away where the world was clean”. Rodger gained unprecedented access to the Nuba tribe and the Maasai warriors in Southern Sudan, and Kenya; first publishing his extraordinary pictures in National Geographic in 1951. Africa remained an enduring passion; and he returned to it again and again for the rest of his life, photographing the wild-life, the landscape, and more especially the tribes; and their close relationship with each other. George Rodger died, in Kent, on 24 July 1995.

Prices range from £1,500 to £10,000. Please contact the gallery for details.