The life of British photographer George Rodger (1908–1995) was full of adventure. He was fascinated at an early age by the important storytellers Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Henry Rider Haggard. During World War II, Rodger worked in sixty-one countries as a war correspondent, amongst others for LIFE and Picture Post. Traumatized by what he saw at the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, which had just been liberated by British forces, he decided to never work as a war correspondent. In 1947, along with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others, he founded Magnum Photos before setting out on a 21,000-mile journey across Africa and the Middle East.
This exhibition presents some of Rodger’s most iconic photographs, taken between 1940 and 1949, key years in the life of this charismatic adventurer.
This exhibition has been produced by Magnum Photos and Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich.
