Howard Bingham obituary

Photographer who covered the 1960s race riots in the US and became a lifelong friend of Muhammad AliHoward Bingham, who has died aged 77, was a photographer who became Muhammad Ali’s closest friend and shot perhaps a million of images of the fighter. “I think we became friends because I didn’t want nothing from him,” Bingham said in 2004. “We just became friends, and we stayed friends.”The pair met in 1962, when Bingham was sent by a local black newspaper to a