Ricardo Rangel
Ricardo Achiles Rangel was born in Maputo in 1924 and has later passed away in 2009. With African, Asian and European roots, he began his contact with photography as a graphic worker, by the hand of Otílio de Vasconcelos, an elephant hunter in 1941. He was the first non-white photographer hired by the newspaper Notícias da Tarde in 1952, and in 1956 he then joined Jornal Notícias, the main newspaper in Mozambique.
He worked as chief photographer on weekly A Tribuna from 1960 to 1964. In 1970 he joined other journalists to found a weekly newspaper called Tempo, which had as its editorial line the opposition to the colonial regime. He became the target of the the political portuguese Police, under the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and many of his photographs were banned or destroyed by censorship, which were only made public after the independence of Mozambique in 1975.