Alain Keler
Alain Keler (born September 20, 1945 in Clermont-Ferrand ) is a French photographer.
Life
Alain Keler worked for various photo agencies, Sygma Agency , then Gamma Agency , then became a freelancer and has been with MYOP since 2008 . He is co-founder of the Odyssey images agency .
Keler became known with the photo of Ruhollah Khomeini when he left exile on January 16, 1979. Since the 1970s, Keler has photographed various hotspots of political conflict around the world: during the revolution in Iran, during the civil war in El Salvador, during the invasion of the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, during which he was kidnapped by Palestinians. He also photographed Chechnya. When he wrote a report on Ingrid Betancourt for the magazine Marie-Claire in 2002 , she was kidnapped by the Farc rebels in his presence and he was immediately released as a French journalist.
In 1986 he received the Grand Prix Paris Match du photojournalisme for his report Ethiopie, déportation des Ethiopiens du nord vers le sud , as well as an award from World Press Photo . In 1997 he received the W. Eugene Smith Prize for a report on the situation of minorities in the former Eastern Bloc countries, and in 2004 a prize for a photo report on the Middle East conflict.
Publications (selection)
- Travel to the Roma . Photographed and told by Alain Keler. Written and drawn by Emmanuel Guibert. Staged and colored by Frédéric Lemercier. Ed .: Anja Luginbühl. Translator: Wolfgang Bortlik. Zurich: Ed. Modern 2012 ISBN 978-3-03-731090-8
- with Emmanuel Guibert : Des nouvelles d'Alain . Les Arènes, Paris 2011 ISBN 978-2-35204-138-2
- Derniers jours d'une femme en liberté . Foreword by Robert Ménard and Alain Mingam. Hugo et Compagnie, Paris 2008 ISBN 978-2-7556-0300-2
- with Michel Le Bris : Bretagne . National Geographic Society, 2003 ISBN 2-84582-083-6
- Vents d'est, les minorités dans l'ex-monde communiste . Marval, Paris 2000 ISBN 2-86234-294-7
- with Jean-Claude Klotchkoff: La Tunisie aujourd'hui . les Ed. du Jaguar, Paris 1995
Web links
- Literature by and about Alain Keler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Alain Keler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Alain Keler: Journal d'un photographe , blog
- Alain Keler , at MYOP
- Alain Keler , at Images and Co.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alain Keler , at Images and Co
- ↑ Holger Christmann: The kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt , interview in FAZ , February 26, 2002
- ^ Alain Keler lauréat 1997 du Prix Eugene Smith , Liberation , October 20, 1997
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keler, Alain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clermont-Ferrand |