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Jean-Marc Bouju
Born1961 (age 6465)
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
University of Nice
AwardsWorld 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

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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]

Career

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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]

Personal life

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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]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jean-Marc Bouju | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  2. Reetz, John. "Travel virtually across the globe with two Pulitzer Prize winning former Daily Texan photographers « Friends of the Daily Texan". www.friendsofthedailytexan.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  3. "Pulitzer Prize Winners from the School of Journalism | School of Journalism and Media". journalism.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  4. "Revisiting the Rwandan Genocide: Origin Stories From The Associated Press". National Geographic. 2014-03-31. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  5. "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  6. "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  7. "2004 Jean-Marc Bouju WY | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  8. Linfield, Susie (2 September 2006). "Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?". Boston Review. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  9. "AP photographer wins World Press Photo 2003". NBC News. 13 February 2004. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
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