Editing George Rodger (section)

== Founding member of Magnum Photos and work in Africa ==
In 1947, Rodger became a founding member of [[Magnum Photos]].<!--Explain --> Over the next thirty years, he worked as a freelance photographer, taking on many expeditions and assignments to photograph the people, landscape and nature of African nations. Much of Rodger's photojournalism in Africa was published in ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' as well as other magazines and newspapers.

His photographs made in 1948 and 1949 of [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous people]] of the [[Nuba Mountains|Nuba mountains]], in the Sudanese province of [[Kordofan]], and the [[Otuho people|Latuka]] and other tribes of southern Sudan, have been called "some of the most historically important and influential images taken in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century".<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|year=2017|title=George Rodger. Nuba & Latuka. The colour photographs.|url=https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/books/george-rodger-nuba-latuka-the-colour-photographs-signed-book/|access-date=23 May 2020|website=Magnum photos}}</ref> As Rodger wrote several years later, "When we came to leave the Nuba Jebels (mountains), we took with us only memories of a people ... so much more hospitable, chivalrous and gracious than many of us who live in the 'Dark Continents' outside Africa."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schuman|first=Aaron|date=5 June 2017|title='Lost' early color photographs of Sudanese tribes published|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/africa/george-rodger-nuba-latuka-sudan/index.html|access-date=23 May 2020|website=CNN}}</ref> In 1951, Rodger published his [[Photo-essay|photo essay]] on the Nuba and Latuka also in ''National Geographic''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=National Geographic|date=28 November 2014|title=Wrestling keeps 'identity of the Nuba' alive in Sudanese refugee camps|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141128-nuba-wrestlers-refugee-sudan-culture-tradition-infocus/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519001140/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141128-nuba-wrestlers-refugee-sudan-culture-tradition-infocus/|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 May 2020|access-date=23 May 2020|website=National Geographic News|language=en}}</ref> In the 1960s, his pictures prompted controversial German photographer and filmmaker [[Leni Riefenstahl]] to travel to the Nuba mountains for her own photo stories on the [[Nuba peoples|Nuba people]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Holocaust education & archive research team|date=2010|title=Leni Riefenstahl|url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/riefenstahl.html|access-date=11 December 2019|website=Holocaust research project}}</ref>

A retrospective exhibition of Rodger's work was held at [[Imperial War Museum North]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-golden-age-of-photojournalism-is-recalled-in-george-rodger-exhibition-768072.html |title=The golden age of photojournalism is recalled in George Rodger exhibition |first=Arifa |last=Akbar |date=4 January 2008 |work=[[The Independent]] |accessdate=9 March 2013}}</ref>

===Marriage, family===
Rodger's first wife, Cicely, who travelled extensively with him in Africa, died during childbirth in 1949. In 1952, he married his American assistant Lois "Jinx" Witherspoon and the pair had two sons, one of whom, [[Peter Rodger|Peter]], became a filmmaker in Britain. He was the grandfather of [[Elliot Rodger]], who committed the [[2014 Isla Vista killings]] in California, United States, where he killed six people and injured fourteen others before committing suicide.<ref>{{cite web |first=Philip |last=Sherwell |title=California drive-by shooting: 'Son of Hunger Games assistant director' Elliot Rodger suspected of killing six |date=24 May 2014 |accessdate=2 July 2014 |website=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10853875/California-drive-by-shooting-Son-of-Hunger-Games-assistant-director-Elliot-Rodger-suspected-of-killing-six.html |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140525210142/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10853875/California-drive-by-shooting-Son-of-Hunger-Games-assistant-director-Elliot-Rodger-suspected-of-killing-six.html |archivedate=25 May 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>