The Salt Lake City Film Center will show the documentary film "Mo and Me," about African photojournalist Mohamed Amin, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East.
Amin's son, Salim Amin, filmmaker and managing director of Camerapix and the chairman of the Mohamed Amin Foundation, will introduce the film and discuss the work he is doing to carry on his father's vision about media courage of Africa. The film is part of the Salt Lake City Film Center's New Africa Series.
Long acknowledged as Africa's greatest photographer-cameraman, the late Mohamed Amin photographed and filmed the major events of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He was the author and publisher of more than 40 illustrated books. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1943, and was chief executive of the Camerapix group of television and publishing companies. He died in 1996. Salim Amin was thrust into the role of managing director of Camerapix Publishers at age 26 when, in 1996, his father died in a hijacked Ethiopian aircraft.
No one captured Africa's pain and passion more incisively than Mohamed Amin. "Mo" trained his unwavering lens on every aspect of African life, never shying from the tragedy, never failing to revel in the success. Through the gaze of his camera lens, he showed the world what some were afraid to see and what most people wished they could ignore.
Salim held on to his father's dreams and ideals of training and developing local African talent to tell the African stories.
Call 746-7000 for more information.