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Revision as of 15:57, 8 May 2022
Jean-Marc Bouju | |
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Born | 1961 |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin University of Nice |
Awards | World Press Photo of the Year 2004 |
Jean-Marc Bouju is a Los Angeles-based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
Early life and education
Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961.[1]
Has a masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin, [1] having first been connected to Texas via an internship from his local University of Nice.[2]
Career
He has worked at the Daily Texan and the Associated Press where he won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award in 1995, 1996 and in 1997.[1][3]
He has worked in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zaire, and Iraq.[1][4]
His photography of Rwanda co-won a 1995 Pulitzer prize for feature photography.[5] In 1999, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for news photography for his photography of the United States embassy bombings.[1][6]
In 2004, Bouju won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his 2013 photograph of US prisoner of war comforting his son while being held in near Najaf.[7][8][9]
Personal life
In 2003, Bouju was involved in a vehicle collision that damaged his spinal cord.[1]
Bouju is based in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and daughter.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Jean-Marc Bouju | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ Reetz, John. "Travel virtually across the globe with two Pulitzer Prize winning former Daily Texan photographers « Friends of the Daily Texan". www.friendsofthedailytexan.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners from the School of Journalism | School of Journalism and Media". journalism.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories From The Associated Press". National Geographic. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "2004 Jean-Marc Bouju WY | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?". Boston Review. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "AP photographer wins World Press Photo 2003". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
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