Frank Fournier
Frank Fournier (* 1948 in Saint-Sever ) is a French photojournalist . His picture of Omayra Sánchez trapped in a mud hole was voted Press Photo of the Year 1985.
Life
Fournier was born in Saint-Sever in 1948, the son of a surgeon. He first studied medicine for four years before turning to photography in 1975. Fournier has been working for the Contact Press Images photo agency since 1977 . As part of his work, Fournier documented the genocide in Rwanda and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and worked on reports on children suffering from AIDS in Romania and on victims of rape during the Bosnian war . Images from the AIDS report in Romania were recognized by the World Press Photo Foundation, as was a picture of people in Wall Street on Black Monday 1987.
Web links
- Short biography on contactpressimages.com
- A picture and its story , article from August 13, 2008 on stern.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures by Frank Fournier on worldpressphoto.org ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 27, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fournier, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photojournalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Sever |