Hocine Zaourar
{{Short description|Algerian photojournalist}}
Hocine Zaourar (born 18 December 1952),{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=Zaourar Hocine|url=https://www.artsper.com/en/contemporary-artists/algeria/19531/zaourar-hocine|website=Artsper}} also known by the mononym Hocine, is an Algerian photojournalist. His photograph of a woman grieving after the Bentalha massacre in Algeria, dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha", won both the World Press Photo of the Year{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=World Press Photo à Hocine pour la "madonne algérienne".|url=https://www.liberation.fr/medias/1998/04/21/world-press-photo-a-hocine-pour-la-madonne-algerienne_233631|date=21 April 1998|website=Libération.fr}} and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 1998.
Life and work
Hocine took up photography in 1970.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=Hocine|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/1430/hocine|website=www.worldpressphoto.org}} He joined Reuters as a photojournalist in 1989 and worked for Agence France-Presse from January 1993. Initially he worked in various countries, in particular Somalia, Rwanda and Zaire, but later worked entirely in Algeria.
Hocine's photograph titled "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalha" was made on 23 September 1997 outside Zmirli Hospital, 15 km from Algiers. Dead and wounded people had been taken to the hospital after the Bentalha massacre by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria the previous night, during the Algerian Civil War.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=Prize winners: 'Independent' photographers shine at World Press Photo|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/prize-winners-independent-photographers-shine-at-world-press-photo-contest-and-take-nikons-fashion-1144642.html|date=14 February 1998|website=The Independent}} The photograph was published on the front pages of many newspapers,{{cite book|page=215|first1=Gitti|last1=Salami|first2=Monica Blackmun|last2=Visona|title=A Companion to Modern African Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZZxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Madonna+of+Bentalha|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|date=24 December 2013|isbn=978-1-4443-3837-9|via=Google Books}} and was later dubbed the "{{ill|La Madone de Bentalha|lt=Madonna of Bentalha|fr}}" or "Bentalha Madonna".{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-12|title='Madonna in hell' captures the grief and despair of war-torn Algeria|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/madonna-in-hell-captures-the-grief-and-despair-of-war-torn-algeria-1.117385|website=The Irish Times}}{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-12|title=The Madonna Of Bentalha: The Iconic Image From Algerian Civil War|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/madonna-bentalha-iconic-image-algerian-civil-war-1024782|date=18 January 2013|website=International Business Times}}{{cite book|page=76|first1=Jacob|last1=Mundy|title=Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D08_CgAAQBAJ&dq=Madonna+of+Bentalha|publisher=Stanford University Press|date=9 September 2015|isbn=978-0-8047-9583-8|via=Google Books}} It caused controversy in Algeria{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=La fondation World Press Photo à Constantine : Le photojournaliste algérien Hocine Zaourar honoré|url=https://www.elwatan.com/edition/culture/la-fondation-world-press-photo-a-constantine-le-photojournaliste-algerien-hocine-zaourar-honore-15-03-2020|website=El Watan|archive-date=2020-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316154820/https://www.elwatan.com/edition/culture/la-fondation-world-press-photo-a-constantine-le-photojournaliste-algerien-hocine-zaourar-honore-15-03-2020|url-status=dead}} and "has been credited with focusing attention on political violence" in the country.{{cite web|first1=Michael|last1=Foley|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=Top award for Eric Luke|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/top-award-for-eric-luke-1.135407|website=The Irish Times}}
Awards
- 1998: Winner, World Press Photo of the Year 1997, World Press Photo, Amsterdam for "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalh"{{cite news|accessdate=2020-05-10|title=L'encombrante "madone" d'Hocine Zaourar|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2005/10/06/photographie-l-encombrante-madone-d-hocine-zaourar_696439_3246.html|newspaper=Le Monde.fr|date=6 October 2005|via=Le Monde}}
- 1998: First Prize, People in the News – Singles category, World Press Photo 1997, Amsterdam for "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalh"{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-13|title=1998 Hocine PN1|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/1998/32427/1/1998-Hocine-PN1|website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}
- 1998: The Public Prize, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents, Bayeux, France{{cite news|accessdate=2020-05-12|title=Radio: le prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre a été décerné samedi 17 octobre|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1998/10/21/radio-le-prix-bayeux-des-correspondants-de-guerre-a-ete-decerne-samedi-17-octobre_3697294_1819218.html|newspaper=Le Monde|date=21 October 1998}} for "Femmes algériennes"{{cite web|accessdate=2020-05-13|title=Presentation – Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award|url=http://www.prixbayeux.org/en/presentation/#prizes-list|website=www.prixbayeux.org}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|first1=Juliette|last1=Hanrot|title=La Madone de Bentalha: Histoire d'une photographie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sys8s2S9V8MC&dq=Hocine%2527s+%2522Madonna+in+hell%2522|location=Paris|publisher=Armand Colin|date=8 February 2012|isbn=978-2-200-27682-9|via=Google Books}}
- {{cite journal|first1=Juliette|last1=Hanrot|first2=Dominique|last2=Clévenot|title=Fabrique d'une icône : La Madone de Bentalha. Entretien avec Juliette Hanrot. Par Dominique Clévenot|url=http://journals.openedition.org/elh/252|journal=Écrire l'Histoire. Histoire, Littérature, Esthétique|date=10 June 2012|issn=1967-7499|pages=111–118|issue=9|doi=10.4000/elh.252|doi-access=free}}
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Category:Agence France-Presse photojournalists