birth_place training patrons field birth_date article_title name bgcolour
belgian congo force publique -lrb- military photography -rrb- congopresse agency photography 1929 joseph makula
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joseph makula

joseph makula -lrb- born 1929 -rrb- was a photographer from the belgian congo .
after joining the force publique , makula served on the army newspaper , `` sango ya biso '' , and in a military photographic laboratory .
he left the army in 1956 , and later joined the congopresse agency , as their first african photographer .
he continued to work for congopresse after independence , training a new generation of zairean photographers .
in 1968 , congopresse closed down and makula set up his own business , photo mak , operating in lemba , kinshasa , until 1991 .
