Chip Duncan: The Importance of Mo Amin's work

"Photojournalists are a rare breed. They take risks. They go where others rarely venture. They put the power of story above their own personal comfort and safety."

"They witness glorious beauty and hideous atrocity. They can’t call in an airstrike or get a helicopter evac, and they rarely have anyone watching their back."

"A force among photojournalists, Mohamed Amin lost his life in 1996 while negotiating with hijackers. But before he passed, Mo managed to use his cameras for more than a generation to bring East Africa’s most powerful stories into world view."

"For Mo, photography was a powerful agent of change. He was often credited with saving more than one million lives with his documentary coverage of the 1984-85 famine in the Horn of Africa."

"Mo Amin was never a household name. He chose a life behind the camera."

"Mo’s historic pictures of Kenya tell the story of his beautiful home turf, captured over four decades of journalistic and artistic expression. Mo was a dedicated artist behind the camera and he created compelling and honest visual storytelling."