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Portrait of a Man with Facial Scarring

A photograph depicting a man with a closed, swollen right eye and a cloth draped around his neck.
Portrait of a man with facial scarring, photographed by G.I. Jones between 1932 and 1938.

A grayscale photograph depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a man facing the camera. He wears a collarless shirt with a dark-toned, textured garment and a light-colored cloth draped around his neck. The man's right eye appears to be scarred or bruised, with the eyelid puffed up and closed. The background consists of a shallow depth of field with out-of-focus natural elements, including trees and low-lying vegetation in an outdoor setting.

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Onyeka Nwokike

Sep 09, 2026

The photographer, Gwilym Iwan Jones, served as a British colonial Administrative Officer in Nigeria from 1926 to 1946. His photographic documentation of Igbo societies and arts was primarily centered in the Eastern Region, specifically within the Bende and Owerri Province, according to World History Commons.

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