Jay Ullal
Jay Ullal (born September 9, 1933 in Mangalore , India ) is an important press and portrait photographer of the 20th century.
Life
Jay Ullal, born in 1933 in Mangalore, South India, trained as a cameraman and then worked in film in Mumbai until 1957 . He then worked for the Times of India as a photo reporter for several years . In 1963 he came to Germany via England . Here he first worked for the women's magazine Constanze until it collapsed in 1969. In the seventies he began his collaboration with the Hamburg weekly magazine Stern , for which he then delivered extensive photo reports from all parts of the world and in particular from crisis areas such as Indochina , the Middle East , Pakistan and the Balkans for almost 30 years . In 1998 Jay Ullal was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. He has been married to the former UNESCO employee Rajni for over 40 years and lives in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel .
Awards
- 1996: »Euro * Photo * Prize« at the Fuji Award competition in Germany for his report on North Korea.
- 1998: Federal Cross of Merit
Books
- You only have seven lives. Photo reports that move. Edited by Kai Hermann and Norbert Kleiner. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-351-02534-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jay Ullal in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jay Ullal in Stern-Photographers, Stern, April 10, 2001 ( memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jay Ullal: You Only Have Seven Lives, Stern, March 6, 2002 ( memento of July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ullal, Jay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ullal, Jaywant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mangalore |