Tag: Alexandra Boulat

  • Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency – The Eye of Photography

    Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency Perpignan, Visa pour l’image festival, September 8, 2001. For a few years, a certain gloom reigns over the world of photojournalism, in seemingly continuous decline. Then, however, a group of seven photojournalists– Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer– announced…

  • Remembering A Compassionate War Photographer

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    Remembering A Compassionate War Photographer A few weeks ago the National Geographic lobby was so crowded with young schoolgirls I could barely make it to the elevators. The place was jumping with energy and I asked the ticket takers if the girls were here to see the Women of Vision photography exhi via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/21/remembering-a-compassionate-war-photographer/…

  • Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary

    Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary

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    Before and Before That: Alexandra Boulat and the Iraq War Ten Year Anniversary – Reading The Pictures Because Boulat died in 2007, I’m curious what her reaction would be to the compare-and-contrast of Baghdad now and Baghdad as we broke it. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/03/before-and-before-that-alexandra-boulat-and-the-iraq-war-ten-year-anniversary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 A photograph that speaks for itself is a powerful…

  • Friends And Family Remember Alexandra Boulat

    VII Photo hosted an intimate and emotional gathering in New York Thursday for friends and family of Alexandra Boulat, who died Oct. 5. Boulat, a conflict photojournalist and a founding member of VII, suffered a brain aneurysm last June while working in Gaza and never recovered. She died in Paris, where she was with her…

  • PHOTO HISTORIES > Alexandra Boulat

    In her short life Alexandra Boulat photographed the innocent victims, especially the women, caught up in conflict on the front lines of the world. Check it out here.