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Multiple award-winning photographer Howard Moo Young died suddenly at home on Wednesday, sending shockwaves across the artistic community.

Moo Young, who had celebrated his 80th birthday last October, was found by the last of his five children, Alyssa, with whom he had been living for the past six years.

“I came home at about 7:00 pm and found him,” Alyssa Moo Young told the Jamaica Observer on Thursday.

“It really was quite sudden.

I mean, he was getting older, and he wasn’t as strong as he was before, but he didn’t have any chronic illnesses. He had a few minor problems, just getting up there in age, but nothing terminal. He was very lively, even up to the day before he was preparing to show at Liguanea Art Festival and getting ready for doing some new work.

He had been doing a lot of new drawings recently and he was really excited to show his work again,” she said, adding that her f