NASSAU, Bahamas, March 12, 2024 — The Bahamas Press Club 2014 is saddened by the passing of renowned photojournalist Margaret Guillaume, a past member, Bahamas Press Club President Anthony Capron noted in a press release.
Margaret died in the Intensive Care Unit of the Princess Margaret Hospital on Sunday, March 10, 2024. She was 76-years-old. Margaret was a perfectionist. With her, nothing was halfway. It was either doing it right or not at all.
Margaret worked in New York City as a freelancer earlier in her career, and her photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines in The Bahamas and internationally.
Members of the BPC express profound condolences to her family and wish her an eternal peaceful rest.
Professionally, Miss Guillaume was a well-known Master of Fine Arts Documentary Photographic Artist and Photographic Lecturer who taught photography at the then College of The Bahamas.
She organized and was the first President of the Bahamas Camera Club, and a founding member of The Bahamas Press Club.
She has exhibited many of her historic scenes of Nassau buildings, flora and fauna, photographed scenes of Nassau and scenes of elderly Bahamians prepared on archival paper that was tested and confirmed to last for over 200 years.
She was referred to as “Master” in her profession and her work is known worldwide and has caught the attention of the late Queen Elizabeth II, has been purchased by the Shar of Iran, and notable persons in the United States including an ambassador who had one of her archival prepared Junkanoo in his art collection.
She was a member of the Board of Directors who restored the Villa Doyle home into the National Arts Gallery of The Bahamas. In this capacity, she fought for the recognition of archival-prepared photographs to become artwork for the Gallery.
Today, there is a room in the gallery for archival-prepared images to be considered Art due to Miss Guillaume’s insistence.
Miss Guillaume is survived by her brother Herbert W. Guillaume; sisters Marie A. Guillaume-Taylor and H. Guillaume-Thompson, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral Services arrangements are confirmed for 11 am on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at the Hillview Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway.
