The Nairobi National Museum is holding
the photographic exhibition, Living Dangerously, from 19 December 2017 to 18
January 2018, in the Cultural Dynamism Gallery. It is the work of British-born
LIFE magazine journalist and World War II fighter pilot, Terence Spencer
(1918-2009).
The exhibition covers photographs from the war, as
well as film stars and personalities – including Goldie Hawn, Princess Grace of
Monaco, and The Beatles.
Terence Spencer’s media introduction
says he is Biggles and James Bond ‘wrapped up in one real-life man.’ He was a
highly decorated Spitfire pilot during the Second World War, and he later
become an award-winning photo-journalist
for LIFE magazine. His base was South Africa.
He married British actress Lesley
Brook, living in South Africa, and returning to Britain in the early 1960s,
where he photographed the rise of the group, The Beatles. Terry also covered
the Vietnam War, as well as the Arab-Israel Six-Day War. Terry and his wife
Lesley jointly wrote the autobiography called ‘Living Dangerously’ in 2002. They
died within 24 hours of each other in 2009 after 62 years of marriage.
MARTINA
NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and
the author of:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s
Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and
The Sudan Curse (2009).
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