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Bülent Kılıç (born 1979[1]) is a Turkish photojournalist currently employed by the Agence France-Press (AFP) as the photo manager for Turkey.
In the early 2000s he was a journalist for the local Turkish press, later specializing as a photographer.[1] He began to work as a freelance journalist for AFP around 2003.[2][3] In Ukraine, he covered the Ukrainian revolution,[4] the search for survivors of the Malaysia airlines plane crash and the refugees fleeing the clashes between the pro-Russian militias and the Ukrainian military.[4] In Turkey, he covered the Soma coal mine disaster,[4] the aftermath of the funeral of Berkin Elvan,[4] and the Kurdish Peshmerga passing through Sanliurfa on their way to defend Kobanî in Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[4] During the annual Pride parade in Istanbul in 2021, he was briefly detained.[5]
Photographic style
According to his own statement, his work has been influenced by the photographers Yuri Kozyrev and Robert Capa.[3]
He is married and has one son.[3]
- 2014 Exhibition Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan.[1]
- 2014 Guardian photographer of the year.[4]
- 2014 Time Wire Photographer of the year.[6]
- 2015 1st in the section Spot News at the World Press Photo of the Year awards for his photograph of a wounded girl surrounded by Turkish police in the aftermath of the funeral of Berkin Evan[7] and also the 3rd prize for his photograph documenting air strikes on militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[2]
- 2015 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs documenting the flight of the Kurds from the ISIL.[8]
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