Penelope Anne Tweedie, photojournalist, born 30 April 1940; died 14 January 2011
I never got to meet Penny. I wish I had. She sounds beautiful. I remember being wowed by her Australian images as a young photographer.
Take a moment to read this wonderful but tough obituary in the Guardian. Please.
While covering that war, she was summoned to a victory celebration outside Dhaka. Penny realised that some very frightened prisoners, accused of collaboration, were about to be bayoneted to death for the benefit of the foreign press. She and a small group of other photographers refused to participate. Others stayed, arguing that they had a duty to record the event, and won prizes for their work.
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wow, that’s sad.
Yeah I just read it.
Painful.