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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.
Jean-Marc Bouju | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin University of Nice |
| Awards | World Press Photo of the Year 2004 |
Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961.[1]
Has a master's 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]
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 the Rwandan genocide 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 1998 United States embassy bombings.[1][6]
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.[7][8][9]
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]
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