Perspective | Photographers edit photographers: A closer look at Benedicte Kurzen’s years covering South Africa
NOOR photographer Alixandra Fazzina edits the work of her colleague Benedicte Kurzen, who was based in the country for six years.
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Bénédicte Kurzen the myth of the war photographer
Bénédicte Kurzen talked with Photo Raw about the myth or the war photographer at the 2012 Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism.
Visa pour l’image 2012: Bénédicte Kurzen
Every day northern Nigeria descends into ever greater chaos and civil war, despite the state of emergency. Since 2009, Boko Haram, a Salafist sect, has been carrying out a series of murderous attacks targeting security services, police and armed forces
Benedicte Kurzen’s Photos of Conflict in Restive Nigeria
Benedicte Kurzen, a French photographer who has been based in Johannesburg since 2005, came to Nigeria last year with a Pulitzer Center grant and a sense of the roiling tensions there: long-seeded resentments, rooted in the breathtaking disparity of wealth, widespread corruption and a pervasive, implacable fear.
Four women want to give a face to Congo rape victims | Emphas.is Blog
Sarah Elliott, Benedicte Kurzen, Ying Ang, and Agnes Dherbeys have in common that they are all young, women and photojournalists. Two of them, Elliott and Kurzen, are based in Africa, in Nairobi and Johannesburg respectively. The two others, Ang and Dherbeys, have never been there. Yet all four of them have come together around an ambitious project to remind the world about the horrors of systematic rape in Eastern Congo.
New Group Unites Six Women Photojournalists
From PDN:
With the guidance of photographer Gary Knight of the VII agency, the six women have formed a new group called EVE Photographers to create and promote social documentary photojournalism. They will collaborate on projects and post their best work on a group web site.
The photographers are Marizilda Cruppe (in Brazil), Agnès Dherbeys (Thailand), Bénédicte Kurzen (South Africa), Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Georgia), Lourdes Segade (Spain) and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran).
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