Jean-Marc Bouju
{{Short description|French photographer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jean-Marc Bouju
| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = Les Sables-d'Olonne
| alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin
University of Nice
| awards = World Press Photo of the Year 2004
}}
Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a Los Angeles–based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
Early life and education
Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961.{{Cite web |title=Jean-Marc Bouju {{!}} World Press Photo |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/jean-marc-bouju |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Reetz |first=John |title=Travel virtually across the globe with two Pulitzer Prize winning former Daily Texan photographers « Friends of the Daily Texan |url=https://www.friendsofthedailytexan.org/texan-hall-of-fame/travel-with-two-former-texan-photographers-across-the-globe-virtually/ |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=www.friendsofthedailytexan.org |language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners from the School of Journalism {{!}} School of Journalism and Media |url=https://journalism.utexas.edu/alumni/pulitzer-prize-winners-school-journalism |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=journalism.utexas.edu |language=en}}
He has worked in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zaire, and Iraq.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-31 |title=Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories From The Associated Press |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/revisiting-rwandan-genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505145010/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/revisiting-rwandan-genocide |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=National Geographic |language=en}}
His photography of the Rwandan genocide co-won a 1995 Pulitzer prize for feature photography.{{Cite web |last= |title=The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/news/1995-winning-photos-associated-press-now-pulitzerorg |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |last= |title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/photo-staff-1 |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=2004 Jean-Marc Bouju WY {{!}} World Press Photo |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2004/jean-marc-bouju/1 |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}{{Cite journal |title=Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? |url=https://bostonreview.net/articles/susie-linfield-why-photography-critics-hate-photographs/ |access-date=2022-05-08 |journal=Boston Review |date=2 September 2006 |language=en-US |last1=Linfield |first1=Susie }}{{Cite web |title=AP photographer wins World Press Photo 2003 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4261858 |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=NBC News |date=13 February 2004 |language=en}}
Personal life
References
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External links
- [https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2004/jean-marc-bouju/1 2004 World Press Photo of the Year winning photo]
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Category:University of Texas at Austin alumni
Category:21st-century French photographers
Category:20th-century French photographers
Category:French emigrants to the United States