:Marcus Bleasdale

Bleasdale has covered the conflict within the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998, which was published in his first book One Hundred Years of Darkness. His second book, The Rape of a Nation, addressed the issues of the conflict being fuelled by natural resource exploration and was awarded the Best Photography Book Award in 2009 by Pictures of the Year International in the USA.

His work on human rights and conflict has been exhibited at the United States Senate,{{cite web | url=http://congowomen.org/tour/washington-dc-may-11-15 | title=Washington, D.C. May 11 – 15 | CongoWomen }} US House of Representatives,{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} The United Nationshttps://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/note6220.doc.htm {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} and the Houses of Parliament in the UK{{cite web|url=http://pulitzercenter.org/event/portraits-war-democratic-republic-congo|title=Congo/Women Exhibition at House of Commons|publisher=Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting|accessdate=14 August 2012|archive-date=28 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128233725/http://pulitzercenter.org/event/portraits-war-democratic-republic-congo|url-status=dead}} and the International Criminal Court in The Hauge.

He works regularly with Human Rights Watch,{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/07/nigeria-child-lead-poisoning-crisis|title = Nigeria: Child Lead Poisoning Crisis|date = 7 February 2012}} UNICEF,{{cite web |url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_24558.html |title=UNICEF – Sudan – Portrait of Darfur Child wins "UNICEF Photo of the Year 2004" |website=unicef.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061123043927/http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_24558.html |archive-date=2006-11-23}} Médecins Sans Frontières{{Cite web |url=http://www.msf.org.uk/Marcus_Bleasdale.letter?lId=88c3ccee-33a1-4134-97b5-1e8e10feb06a |title=A photojournalist's journey – MSF UK |access-date=28 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105065300/http://www.msf.org.uk/Marcus_Bleasdale.letter?lId=88c3ccee-33a1-4134-97b5-1e8e10feb06a |archive-date=5 January 2011 |url-status=dead }} Saint Kizito Orphanage{{Cite web|url=https://potd.pdnonline.com/tag/st-kizito-orphanage/|title=St Kizito Orphanage | PDN Photo of the Day}} and other NGOs to highlight health and human rights issues in several countries. He works to cover issues underreported by mainstream media. In 2007, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute awarded Bleasdale a grant to continue his work on justice and accountability in the DRC. He is an Enough Project Fellow.{{Cite news|url=https://enoughproject.org/videos/tedx-capturing-the-conflict-mineral-trade-in-drc-with-marcus-bleasdale|title=TEDx: Capturing the Conflict Mineral Trade in DRC with Marcus Bleasdale – The Enough Project|date=2014-05-06|work=The Enough Project|access-date=2018-11-09|language=en-US}}

Bleasdale was a member of the VII Photo Agency until 2015 and a member of its Board. He has been one of the journalists covering the conflict in Central African Republic between 2013 and 2017, documenting the violence for Human Rights Watch alongside their Director of Emergencies, Peter Bouckaert. This has been covered by many publications and news channels, including National Geographic.{{Cite web|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140207-central-african-republic-violence-marcus-bleasdale/|title=Photographer: Central African Republic "Falling Apart" in "Horrific Violence"|date=9 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209075002/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140207-central-african-republic-violence-marcus-bleasdale/ |archive-date=9 February 2014 }}

He has had his work published in the UK, Europe and the US in Sunday Times Magazine,{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|date=20 June 2023|website=The Times}} The Telegraph Magazine,{{Cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675164/Marcus-Bleasdale-Nowhere-to-hide.html|title=Marcus Bleasdale: Nowhere to hide - Telegraph|date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150758/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3675164/Marcus-Bleasdale-Nowhere-to-hide.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 }} GEO,{{Cite web|url=http://www.geo.de/GEO/mensch/medizin/50716.html?p=1|title=GEO|access-date=13 August 2012|archive-date=29 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083211/http://www.geo.de/GEO/mensch/medizin/50716.html?p=1|url-status=dead}} The New Yorker,{{Cite web|url=http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2003-04-14&crd=0&searchKey=marcus%20bleasdale&startpage=35#folio=031%20%20|title=The New Yorker}} Time,{{Cite web|url=http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+Archive&Ntt=marcus+bleasdale|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130204101034/http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+Archive&Ntt=marcus+bleasdale|url-status=dead|title=Time|archivedate=4 February 2013}} Newsweek,{{Cite web |url=http://magazine-directory.com/Newsweek.htm |title=Newsweek |access-date=13 August 2012 |archive-date=9 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409065759/http://magazine-directory.com/Newsweek.htm |url-status=dead }} National Geographic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine|title=National Geographic Magazine|website=National Geographic}} Stern,{{Cite web|url=https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/voelkermord-in-darfur--nehmt-mich-mit-in-den-krieg--3353952.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319064810/http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/voelkermord-in-darfur-nehmt-mich-mit-in-den-krieg-584908.html|url-status=dead|title="Nehmt mich mit in den Krieg"|date=16 March 2007|archivedate=19 March 2011|website=stern.de}} Le Monde,{{Cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/international/portfolio/2008/02/07/le-monde-2-le-tchad-vu-par-marcus-bleasdale_1008255_3210.html?xtmc=marcus_bleasdale&xtcr=1|title=Photos. "Le Monde 2" : le Kenya vu par Marcus Bleasdale|newspaper=Le Monde.fr }} The New York Times,{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/showcase-184/|title=Unsung Allies Battle Starvation in Africa|first=Karly Domb|last=Sadof|date=9 July 2010|website=Lens Blog}} Rolling Stone,{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} Mother Jones (Masthead Photographer),{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/03/congo-gold-child-labor-marcus-bleasdale/|title=The Congo's Midas Curse|first=Marcus|last=Bleasdale}} Aftenposten{{Cite news|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Merket-av-Joseph-Kony-6805196.html|title=Aftenposten}} and Die Zeit.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zeit.de/kultur/musik/2009-11/interview-bleasdale|title="Die Kongolesen erschaffen aus dem Nichts etwas Schönes"|first=ZEIT|last=ONLINE|date=19 November 2009|newspaper=Die Zeit}}

Bleasdale graduated with an MSt in International Relations from Cambridge University and is still documenting human rights issues around the world and working as managing director of Wilstar, a Social Impact Not for Profit based in Oslo, Norway.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marcusbleasdale.com/about/|title=About|website=Marcus Bleasdale – Photographer|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-09}}

He lives in Oslo with his wife, Karin Beate, and daughters.

• One Hundred Years of Darkness. London: Pirogue, 2003. {{ISBN|0-9543015-0-1}}.
• The Rape of a Nation. London: Mets and Schilt, 2009. {{ISBN|978-90-5330-671-0}}.
• The Unravelling. New York: FotoEvidence, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0996391207}}.

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) starring Ben Stiller. Included photographs by Bleasdale and members of VII Photo Agency.
• A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013) starring Juliet Binoche. Bleasdale was an advisor and had photographs included.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/10785930/Juliette-Binoche-I-choose-storeis-that-need-to-be-told.html The Daily Telegraph] The Telegraph Magazine

• 2004: UNICEF Photographer of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_24558.html|title=UNICEF Photographer of the Year|access-date=13 August 2012|archive-date=23 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061123043927/http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_24558.html|url-status=dead}}
• 2005: Readers Award (with two others), Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards.{{cite web | url = http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2005/result/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150610105854/http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2005/result/ | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 10 June 2015 | accessdate = 10 June 2015 | publisher = Days Japan | title = Winner's Names}}
• 2005: The Olivier Rebbot Award for Best Foreign Reporting{{Cite web|url=https://opcofamerica.org/2005-opc-award-winners/|title=2005 OPC Award Winners|first=OPC of|last=America|date=20 April 2006|website=OPC}}
• 2005: The Open Society Institute (OSI) Distribution Grant{{Cite web|url=http://www.soros.org/about/programs/documentary-photography-project/grantees/marcus-bleasdale|title=OSI Distribution Grant}}
• 2005: Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Magazine Photographer of the Year Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.poy.org/62/mpoy/index.php|title=Magazine Photographer of the Year|website=www.poy.org}}
• 2005: The Alexia Foundation for World Peace{{Cite web|url=http://www.alexiafoundation.org/stories/MarcusBleasdale|title=The Alexia Foundation for World Peace|access-date=13 August 2012|archive-date=22 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322022353/http://www.alexiafoundation.org/stories/MarcusBleasdale|url-status=dead}}
• 2005: The World Press Photo of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/photographer_formal/Bleasdale%2C%20Marcus|title=The World Press Award}}
• 2007: Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute awarded him a grant to continue his work on justice and accountability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 2007: The Freedom of Expression Foundation Norway{{Cite web|url=http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/prosjekter/category/dokumentarfotografi/|title=Freedom of Expression Foundation Norway|access-date=13 August 2012|archive-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401000136/http://fritt-ord.no/no/prosjekter/category/dokumentarfotografi/|url-status=dead}}
• 2009: Public Prize (Reader's Award) (along with four others), Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards.{{cite web | url = http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2009/ | accessdate = 10 June 2015 | publisher = Days Japan | title = Winner's List | archive-date = 10 June 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150610090355/http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2009/ | url-status = usurped }}
• 2009: Magazine News Award in POYi{{Cite web|url=https://poy.org/66/21/index.php|title=News Picture Story|website=poy.org}}
• 2010: Anthropographia Award for Photography and Human Rights{{Cite web|url=http://www.anthropographia.org/2.0/?p=271|title=Anthropographia Award for Photography and Human Rights}}
• 2010: The Hansel Mieth Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.freelens.com/foto/bleasdale-und-boehm-erhalten-hansel-mieth-preis-2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304140807/http://www.freelens.com/foto/bleasdale-und-boehm-erhalten-hansel-mieth-preis-2010|url-status=dead|title=The Hansel Mieth Award|archivedate=4 March 2012}}
• 2010: Best Photography Book Award from POYi{{Cite web|url=https://www.poy.org/67/BestPhotographyBookAward/index.php|title=Winner | Best Photography Book Award|website=www.poy.org}}
• 2011: The Freedom of Expression Norway{{Cite web|url=http://www.fritt-ord.no/en/tildeling/mer/bevilgninger_i_juni_2011_sknader_over_kr_100_000/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222230816/http://www.fritt-ord.no/en/tildeling/mer/bevilgninger_i_juni_2011_sknader_over_kr_100_000/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-22|title=Freedom of Expression Norway}}
• 2011: Webby Award{{Cite web|url=https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/two-webbies-dear-obama|title=Two Webbies for "Dear Obama"|website=Pulitzer Center}} for the feature Dear Obama{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2010/11/10/dear-obama-message-victims-lra|title=Dear Obama: A Message from Victims of the LRA|date=10 November 2010}}
• 2012: Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for meritorious performance in photography, with particular emphasis on photography for public service.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rps.org/resources/downloads/Awards_supplement__download_.pdf |title=The Royal Photographic Society Awards 2012 |access-date=18 September 2012 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211025626/http://www.rps.org/resources/downloads/Awards_supplement__download_.pdf |archive-date=11 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}
• 2012: Nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award with other members of VII Photo Agency{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/emmy-nomination-doctors-without-borders-vii-photo-collaborative-174119022.html|title=Emmy Award nomination}} for the film Starved For Attention,{{Cite web |title=About the Campaign {{!}} Starved for Attention |url=http://www.starvedforattention.org/about.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200131033526/http://www.starvedforattention.org:80/about.php |archive-date=2020-01-31 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=www.starvedforattention.org |language=en}} made for Médecins Sans Frontières.
• 2013: Overseas Press Club of America Awards, Feature Photography Award for Last of the Vikings{{Cite web|url=https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/6-feature-photography-award|title=06 Best Feature Photography Award 2014}}
• 2014: World Press Photo, 3rd Prize Contemporary Issues for Last of the Vikings{{Cite web |date=24 June 2011 |title=Last of the Vikings |url=http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2014/contemporary-issues/marcus-bleasdale?gallery=1125526&photographer=180191 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508062305/http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2014/contemporary-issues/marcus-bleasdale?gallery=1125526&photographer=180191 |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=February 4, 2025 |website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}
• 2014: Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club.{{cite magazine |title=Marcus Bleasdale Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal |magazine=Time |date=30 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325024342/https://time.com/3841010/marcus-bleasdale-wins-robert-capa-gold-medal/ |archive-date=2023-03-25 |url-status=live |url=https://time.com/3841010/marcus-bleasdale-wins-robert-capa-gold-medal/}}
• 2015: FotoEvidence Book Award for Inferno:Central African Republic.{{cite web|url=http://www.fotoevidence.com/fotoevidence-book-award-winner-and-finalists |title=FotoEvidence Book Award winner and finalists | FotoEvidence |accessdate=2015-05-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503154234/http://www.fotoevidence.com/fotoevidence-book-award-winner-and-finalists |archivedate=3 May 2015 }}
• 2015: W. Eugene Smith Fellowship from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.{{cite web|url = https://time.com/4073718/eugene-smith-2015-matt-black/ | date = 14 October 2015 | access-date = 15 October 2015 | publisher = Time | title = Matt Black Wins the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography}}
• 2023: Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to international photojournalism and human rights.

• Chicago Public Library (2006){{Cite web|url=http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/8345495/results/1/|title=Search | Chicago Public Library | BiblioCommons}}
• United States Senate (2009){{cite web|url=http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/photography-as-a-baton-spreading-the-message-of-congos-women|title=Photography as a baton: Spreading the message of Congo's women|publisher=Women's Media Center|date=16 April 2012}}
• Headquarters of the United Nations, New York (2009)
• Columbia College (2009){{Cite web|url=http://congowomen.org/tour/|title=Tour | CongoWomen}}
• The Houses of Parliament, UK (2010)
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (2012){{cite web|url=http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/lords-resistance-army-hunt-africas-most-wanted|title=The Lord's Resistance Army: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted|publisher=Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting|accessdate=14 August 2012|archive-date=16 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116152905/http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/lords-resistance-army-hunt-africas-most-wanted|url-status=dead}}
• The White House (2012){{Cite web|url=http://e2.ma/message/bvc4c/r7wkug|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219000943/http://e2.ma/message/bvc4c/r7wkug|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-19|title=ART WORKS Project}}
• Fotografiska Farming Out of Poverty (2013){{cite web |url=http://fotografiska.eu/en/utstallningar/utstallning/farming-out-of-poverty/ |title=Farming out of Poverty {{!}} Fotografiska i Stockholm är inget vanligt museum |website=fotografiska.eu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216134546/http://fotografiska.eu/en/utstallningar/utstallning/farming-out-of-poverty/ |archive-date=2014-02-16}}
• Christie's London (2015) IMPACT for Human Rights Watch.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/30/central-african-republic-multimedia-feature-recounts-2014-violence|title=Central African Republic: Multimedia Feature Recounts 2014 Violence|date=30 December 2014}}
• The International Criminal Court, The Hauge (2018){{Cite news|url=https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=181109-info-traumaHealingHopeExhibit|title=ICC launches digital exhibit "Trauma, Healing and Hope"|access-date=2018-11-09|language=en-GB}}
• The United Nations Headquarters, New York (2018)
• Venice Biennale (2019){{Cite news|url=https://www.unmultimedia.org/s/photo/detail/769/0769815.html|title=Opening of Exhibit|last=Felipe|first=UN Photo/Loey|date=2018-07-17|work=United Nations Photo|access-date=2018-11-09|language=en}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{official website}}
• [http://www.mediastorm.org/0022.htm 'Rape of a Nation' by Bleasdale] on MediaStorm
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o0TQV450uk 'Proof: Marcus Bleasdale on Shock and Change'], National Geographic
• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10644785/Shoot-Stories-Marcus-Bleasdale.html 'Shoot Stories'], The Telegraph Magazine
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjVkNxT8Zsg 'Capturing conflict mineral trade in DRC'], TEDx Talks
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pM4PYvGNvs 'A visual journey into Africa'], Bleasdale addresses The Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship
• [http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/marcus-bleasdale-when-photography-campaigns-for-change/ New York Times Lens Biography]

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