Charlie Phillips (mai daukar hoto)

**Ronald Phillips** OBE (an haife shi a ranar 22 ga Nuwamba 1944), wanda aka fi sani da **Charlie**, wanda kuma aka fi sani da sunan Smokey,  ɗan asalin Jamaica ne mai sayar da abinci, mai ɗaukar hoto, kuma mai rubuta tarihin baƙar fata na London. Yanzu an fi saninsa da hotunan Notting Hill a lokacin ƙaura zuwa London ta Yammacin Indiya; duk da haka, batunsa ya haɗa da taurarin fina-finai da zanga-zangar ɗalibai, inda hotunansa suka bayyana a *[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]*, *[[Harper's Bazaar]]*, *[[Life (magazine)|Life]]* and *[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]* da kuma a cikin mujallun Italiya da Switzerland.  Fitattun shirye-shiryen Phillips na baya-bayan nan sun haɗa da *How Great You Art*, "wani shirin daukar hoto mai mahimmanci na al'adun zamantakewa da motsin rai da ke kewaye da mutuwa a cikin al'ummar Afirka ta Caribbean ta London". 

An nuna aikinsa a wuraren baje kolin da suka hada da Tate Britain, Gidan Tarihi na London, Nottingham's New Art Exchange, Gidan kayan gargajiya na zamani na Detroit  da Gidan Tarihin Birnin New York,  kuma yana cikin tarin a The Wedge, Gidan tarihi na Victoria & Albert na London (V&A),  da Tate.  Hoton Phillips na mai daukar hoto Aliyah Otchere ya samo asali ne daga National Portrait Gallery, London a cikin 2021.

An nada Phillips a matsayin Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE) a cikin girmamawar Sabuwar Shekara ta 2022 don hidimomi ga daukar hoto da zane-zane.

## Shekaru na farko
An haife shi a Kingston, Jamaica, Phillips ya kasance yana yaro tare da kakanninsa a St Mary bayan iyayensa sun yi hijira zuwa Burtaniya. Ya ci gaba da sha'awar al'amuran sojan ruwa: "Muna amfani da su jira jiragen yawon shakatawa su shigo kuma muna amfani da su don gwada su sayar da su wani abu ko gwada su raka su a wani wuri ko nuna su a kusa da tashar jiragen ruwa ta Kingston. A wannan lokacin Kingston babban tashar jiragen sama ne a cikin Caribbean.... Kowace rana bayan makaranta na saba sauka zuwa tashar jiragen kasa kuma na kallon jiragen ruwa daban-daban da ke shigowa.  A lokacin da muka yi tafiya daga Jamaica zuwa Ingila, muna tafiya a kan jirgin ruwa na Pacific Pander ...

Ya haɗu da iyayensa a Landan, a ranar 17 ga watan Agusta 1956, kuma iyalin sun zauna tsakanin sauran baƙi na Yammacin Indiya a Notting Hill, a lokacin wani yanki ne mara kyau na babban birnin da ke da alamar Rachmanism da wariyar launin fata. Phillips ya tuna: "Mun zauna a lamba 9 Blenheim Crescent, kuma dole ne mu raba ɗaki tare da baƙi biyu, a cikin abin da suka kira ɗaki biyu. Ya kasance mafaka ga mutane da yawa da suka zo nan kuma ba su da ko'ina da za su zauna da farko. "  Ya ce: "Ni yaro ne na bagade a coci da ake kira St Michael lokacin da aka binne Kelso Cochrane [a ranar 6 ga Yuni 1959] - daya daga cikin manyan jana'izar a Nottingley a lokacin.

Phillips ya yi aiki a gidan cin abinci na iyayensa "Las Palmas" a Portobello Road .  Duk da mafarkin farko na zama masanin gine-ginen sojan ruwa ko mawaƙin opera, ya fara aikinsa na daukar hoto ta hanyar haɗari lokacin da, yayin da yake matashi sosai, wani baƙar fata na Amurka ya ba shi Kodak Brownie. Phillips ya koya wa kansa yin amfani da shi ("Na sayi littafi daga Boots kan yadda za a dauki hotuna kuma na koyi daga kuskuren da na yi")  kuma ya fara daukar hoto na rayuwa a Notting Hill,  yana yin bugawa a cikin gidan wanka na iyali bayan iyayensa sun yi ritaya zuwa gado.

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