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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Former veteran media photographer Rattan Jadoo passes

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The late Rattan Jadoo, former Newsday chief photographer.

The late Rattan Jadoo, former Newsday chief photographer.

COURTESY NEWSDAY

For­mer vet­er­an me­dia pho­tog­ra­phers Rat­tan Jadoo has died.

Jadoo was a for­mer pho­tog­ra­ph­er with the Trinidad Guardian for 13 years be­fore mov­ing to the News­day in 1993, where he spent over 25 years as the com­pa­ny’s chief pho­tog­ra­ph­er.

Jadoo was con­sid­ered one of the me­dia’s best pho­tog­ra­phers in an era that in­clud­ed oth­er vet­er­ans such as Rudy Arthur Tay­lor, Noel Salde­nah, Max Lai Le­ung and Mau­rice Brown.

He was skilled not on­ly in pho­tog­ra­phy it­self but al­so print­ing the pho­tos as a lab tech­ni­cian, in those days of film.

He ex­ten­sive­ly cov­ered Par­lia­ment but is best re­mem­bered for an icon­ic pho­to of late Archibish­op An­tho­ny Pan­tin con­vers­ing with a home­less man out­side the Cathe­dral of Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion.

He cov­ered T&T’s first and on­ly ap­pear­ance at the 2006 World Cup in Ger­many and was a reg­u­lar at foot­ball, crick­et and oth­er sports across the coun­try.

An­oth­er for­mer news­pa­per pho­tog­ra­ph­er who worked close­ly with Jadoo, Azlan Mo­hammed, re­mem­bered Jadoo fond­ly.

“I worked with Rat­tan for over 20 years. He was a con­sum­mate pro­fes­sion­al and one of the best news and sports pho­tog­ra­phers in T&T’s me­dia his­to­ry. Though a stern pho­to ed­i­tor, and op­er­a­tor, all he ever want­ed for his pho­tog­ra­phers were the best pic­tures of the day for the news­pa­per pages,” he said.

Jadoo’s pass­ing fol­lows the pass­ing of four oth­er long-stand­ing prac­tis­ing and for­mer jour­nal­ists this year—An­tho­ny Har­ris, Joel Nan­ton, Suzanne Mills and David El­cock.


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