Charles Kinkead

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Charles Kinkead OD (3 October 1913 – 1 June 2007) was a Jamaican photojournalist and journalist, whose career spanned more than four decades.

Born Charles Harold Austin Kinkead, he worked as a news photographer for a number of Jamaican publications during his career. Among the newspapers who he worked for were The Gleaner, the Jamaica Standard, the Daily News, and the Jamaica Times, a weekly newspaper publication.{{cite news |title=Veteran photographer Charles Kinkead dies |url=http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070608/lead/lead11.html |work=The Jamaica Gleaner |date=8 June 2007 |access-date=28 June 2015}}

While working at the Daily News, Kinkead won the Seprod Human Interest Photograph Award in 1973. In 1978, Kinkead also won a national Jamaican award, the Order of Distinction, "for his contribution in the field of photo-journalism".

Kinkead moved to Florida in the 1980s to retire. He died of a stroke on 1 June 2007, aged 93, at a Florida hospital after becoming ill at his home in Pembroke Pines. He was survived by his wife and five children. A service of thanksgiving for his life was held on 14 June 2007 at the St James Cathedral in Spanish Town, Jamaica.[http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/124347_Journalists-hail-Charles-Kinkead-at-thanksgiving-service "Journalists hail Charles Kinkead at thanksgiving service"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630142644/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/124347_Journalists-hail-Charles-Kinkead-at-thanksgiving-service |date=30 June 2015 }}, Jamaica Observer, 15 June 2007.