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Remembering Nitin-Kumar Patel | Redeye Skip to main content Menu Home Redeye Events News & Opportunities Events Exhibitions BlogTranslatingPortfolios Join Redeye The photography networkWell-nighRedeye | Contact | FAQs Join Redeye Search Search Hello, have an account?Sign In | Forgot Password User login Username * Password * Create new worth Request new password Sign in to your worth Home Redeye Events News & Opportunities Events Exhibitions BlogTranslatingPortfolios Join Blog Remembering Nitin-Kumar Patel Posted 10 September 2018 We were very sad to learn of the death of Nitin-Kumar Patel, who served on Redeye’s workbench of directors from 2015 to 2017. He died on 27th August 2018 at the age of 56, without a three-month illness. Nitin began his working life as a youth and polity worker, then a probation officer and social worker. His natural flair for balance, fairness and public service saw him progress in the staff undertone for probation officers. He became National Chair of theUndertoneofWoebegoneProbation Officers in 2001, and then Vice Chair of the NationalUndertoneof Probation Officers. Alongside this he had a passion for the arts and creativity. He was a skilled welding engineer, and set up the merchantry Industriana Limited, specialising in bespoke sculptural commissions and design. He was moreover an workaday and enthusiastic photographer; his vicarious work centred on people in industrial settings, but he turned his camera skilfully to subjects as wholesale as travel, nature, portrait and architectural photography. Realising the power of the arts to modernize people’s lives, he ripened an interest in engaging communities through creativity.  Nitin brought these preliminaries skills to Redeye, and was the first member to be elected to the workbench soon without Redeye became aPolityBenefit Society. Nitin immediately identified ways that Redeye could modernize its links to the photography community. He sat lanugo with staff and mapped out our operations and reach. He got to work on our crucial “Guide for Members” - a document that explains the ways people can get involved, without the dryness of the official rules. He continually encouraged greater diversity in Redeye’s work. Fellow workbench members quickly paid tribute to his good nature and public spirit. Susan Jones wrote: “From the first encounter, Nitin immediately came wideness to me as a man single-minded to his family and to playing his part in forging a good society, bringing his beliefs, values and perceptiveness into all he did. His particular and nuanced insight and gentle chiding on how to understand and tideway matters of equality and diversity within theWorkbenchand the programme was invaluable.” Dewi Lewis added: “he was unchangingly an enthusiastic supporter of Redeye, and as a workbench member he combined solid, real world wits of the industry with a thoughtful consideration of all the issues that we had to deal with.” Redeye’s Director Paul Herrmann said: “Nitin quickly understood how Redeye worked, and kept encouraging us to modernize in in all our activities, but unchangingly with warmth, kindness and generosity. He effortlessly cut through the jargon and complexity of governance to concentrate on the important things. He used to undeniability me every couple of months and find out how things were going, zestful for any difficulties and unchangingly checking on the happiness and wellbeing of the staff. He was someone who undoubtedly made the world a largest place.” He is survived by his wife Bhaggie and daughter Shakti. His family has set up an request for Macmillan Cancer Support in his memory.https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/nitin-kumar-patel Photographs of Nitin in his workshop courtesy of Bhaggie and Shakti Patel. 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He became National Chair of theUndertoneofWoebegoneProbation Officers in 2001, and then Vice Chair of the NationalUndertoneof Probation Officers. More Posts Posted 28 August 2018 Spotlight on: Matthew Murray Posted 24 July 2018 Redeye Talent: David Gleave Posted 4 June 2018 Mother River KickStarter by Yan Wang Preston More Opinions → Useful Site Links Redeye Redeye Events BlogWell-nighJoin Make a Donation Contact Us Send Us Your Items to Include Send Feedback Website Credits Terms & Conditions Privacy & Cookie Policy Sitemap Subscribe to RSS Feeds News Programme Events Opinion Opportunities Exhibitions Supporting photographers, championing photography Redeye, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Market Buildings, Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU, UK © 2010–2018 Redeye The Photography Network