Rashid Mahdi was a Sudanese photographer, active in Atbara from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Rashid Mahdi was a Sudanese photographer, active in Atbara from the 1950s to the 1970s. French photographer Claude Iverné, founder of a large archive of photographs dedicated to this "Golden Age" of photography in Sudan, called Mahdi "certainly the most sophisticated and one of the major African photographers of the 20th century."
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2008 · aged 85
Written about in
5 languages
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