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5 October 2011
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In pictures: The work of Goksin Sipahioglu
Goksin Sipahioglu, the photojournalist and founder of the Sipa Press agency, has died at the age of 84.
Sipahioglu was born on 28 December 1926 in Izmir, Turkey, but settled in Paris where he set up the Sipa agency - one of the significant Paris-based agencies of the 1970s - with his American journalist wife Phyllis Springer. He received the Legion d'Honneur in 2006.
A celebrated photographer in his own right, Sipahioglu's his work included coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Prague Spring, the tragedy of the Munich Olympic Games and the Paris uprisings of May 1968.
A pacifist student puts a flower in the cap of a wary policeman guarding the Sorbonne during the student riots, Boulevard Saint-Michel. June 16, 1968.
"During the missile crisis, Castro ordered all Cubans to defend the capital. Dressed as usual in skirt, high heels and with hair curlers anticipating an evening out, this young woman with gun guards a bank."
Alexander Dubcek waves goodbye to his country after the Czech leader was removed from office following the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. "Apart from his wife, I was the only passenger in first class on this Czech passenger plane which flew Dubcek to Istanbul."
"Cambodia, outskirts of Phnom Penh, May 1970. A UPI cameraman told me : 'You arrived today to report on the war and you did the best story, child soldiers.'"
"An elderly, dignified woman in a city park where young people are performing Tai-chi. I considered her an aristocrat as she silently looked at me. Only her eyes moved as I took this photo with a Nikon equipped with a 200mm tele-lens. This is one of my favourite pictures."
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