Kampala will this week celebrate one of East Africa's most gifted photographers, David Pluths who passed away mid this year.

David had dedicated much of his life to photography of the most iconic photos of Uganda that don most websites as well as Tourism Uganda Information office.

A photo exhibition starting 25th November at Emin Pasha hotel, in Nakasero, a Kampala suburb.

David was born a US citizen in Bemidji in Minnesota in the US in 1946. He died on 21 May this year in Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda. David's first visit to Kampala was shortly after Uganda president Yoweri Museveni's NRA guerilla group took power in the 1980's.

David established his photography and tourism marketing company in 1995, his first subject was Uganda and the Rwenzori mountains. This resulted in the book Uganda Rwenzor: A Range of Images. Later books on Uganda include The Eye of the Storm and Karamoja, Uganda's Land of Warrior Nomads. A postage stamp was made out of his Happy Warrior photo.

David was planning a feature film about Karamoja to be filmed this year, his estate and colleagues are working on completing this.

As professional photographer whose African Travels gave the world the other picture and not just wars, famine, etc.

Pictures that promoted Africa as a place to be. In so doing he helped elevate the lives of some of the poor through Tourism.