Jean-Marc Bouju
Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a Los Angeles–based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
Jean-Marc Bouju
- Name
- Jean-Marc Bouju
- Born
- 1961
- Birthplace
- Les Sables-d'Olonne
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin University of Nice
- Awards
- World Press Photo of the Year 2004
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- photographer
- Honours
- World Press Photo of the Year
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a Los Angeles–based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
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Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a photographer, of French nationality. The photographer was born in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
Languages used include French. Honours include World Press Photo of the Year.
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• Name — Jean-Marc Bouju • Born — 1961 • Birthplace — Les Sables-d'Olonne • Education — University of Texas at Austin University of Nice • Awards — World Press Photo of the Year 2004
Early life and education
Early life and education
Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961. Has a master's degree in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin, having first been connected to Texas via an internship from his local University of Nice.
Career
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. He has worked in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zaire, and Iraq. His photography of the Rwandan genocide co-won a 1995 Pulitzer prize for feature photography. In 1999, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for news photography for his photography of the 1998 United States embassy bombings. In 2004, Bouju won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his 2003 photograph of US prisoner of war comforting his son while being held in near Najaf.
Personal life
Personal life
In 2003, Bouju was involved in a vehicle collision that damaged his spinal cord. Bouju is based in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and daughter.
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- 1.Jean-Marc Bouju World Press Photo. www.worldpressphoto.org.
- 2.Reetz, John. Travel virtually across the globe with two Pulitzer Prize winning former Daily Texan photographers « Friends of the Daily Texan. www.friendsofthedailytexan.org.
- 3.Pulitzer Prize Winners from the School of Journalism School of Journalism and Media. journalism.utexas.edu.
- 4.Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories From The Associated Press. National Geographic. 2014-03-31.
- 5.The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography. www.pulitzer.org.
- 6.The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography. www.pulitzer.org.
- 7.2004 Jean-Marc Bouju WY World Press Photo. www.worldpressphoto.org.
- 8.Linfield, Susie. Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?. Boston Review. 2 September 2006.
- 9.AP photographer wins World Press Photo 2003. NBC News. 13 February 2004.
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