John Burke (photographer)

John Burke
Died1900
NationalityIrish
OccupationPhotographer
Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari with the Sirdars by John Burke, late 1870s
Warburton with Nauroz Khan of Lalpura Mohmands

John Burke (c. 1843 – 1900) was am Irish photographer, best known for his photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War between 1878 and 1880. He was born in Ireland, around 1843, where he was a tradesman. He applied for a job in the British Army as an official photographer but travelled to Afghanistan at his own expense[1][2] using heavy cameras that would have needed transporting on pack animals[3] through mountainous regions. Burke was the first significant photographer of Afghanistan.[citation needed] He died in 1900. Burke's photographs have been grouped in albums with those of Benjamin Simpson and other photographers, so definitive attribution is not possible for some of his works.

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