Jean Depara
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Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara, commonly known as Depara (1928–1997), was an Angolan-born photographer, who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Place of birth
- Angola
- Place of death
- Kinshasa
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- photographer
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- Jean Depara
- date of birth
- 1928-01-01
- date of death
- 1997-01-01
- start of work period
- 1954-01-01
- end of work period
- 1997-01-01
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Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara, commonly known as Depara (1928–1997), was an Angolan-born photographer, who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
== Career == Depara purchased his first video camera to record his wedding in 1950; four years later, he was made official photographer to the Zairian singer Franco. In 1975 he became official photographer to the National Assembly of Democratic Republic of Congo, and also took many photographs of the social scene of Kinshasa during the period.
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