Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old photographer who considered it her duty to delve into stories in often-overlooked places, was killed in the Central African Republic. Nicholas Kulish remembers.
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Photojournalist Camille Lepage
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Camille Lepage, a 26-year old French photojournalist, has died in Central African Republic
Link: AP photographer captured humanity amid chaos
“And I believe that is why her pictures from terrible places resonated with so many people around the world,” Carroll said. “She found their dignity. She found the quiet human moments that connected people in great strife to all the rest of us around the world.”
Link: Investigation launches into AP photographer’s death | Poynter.
A funeral service for Niedringhaus is planned for Saturday at Corvey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery near where she was born in Hoxter, Germany.
Acclaimed European Pressphoto Agency photojournalist Kerim Okten, 42, has died today in a motorcycle accident in Turkey, EPA announced.
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“We have lost a great friend and esteemed colleague,” EPA editor in chief Hannah Hess said today. “For many within the EPA family Kerim was a beloved friend, a brother, and one of the finest. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his wife, his family, friends and colleagues.”
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally known German photographer, was killed while on assignment in eastern Afghanistan on Friday. Some of her closest colleagues offered deeply personal accounts of her life and career.
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“Her enthusiasm and good cheer were infectious, even in the darkest of circumstances. She consistently volunteered for the hardest assignments and was remarkably resilient in carrying them out time after time. She truly believed in the need to bear witness.”
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Documenting a decades-long story like the Afghanistan War is a challenge for any photojournalist, from simple logistical issues, to serious safety concerns, to the difficulty of keeping the narrative fresh and compelling. Niedringhaus did a remarkable job, telling people’s stories with a strong, consistent voice, an amazing eye for light and composition, and a level of compassion that clearly shows through her images. A remarkable voice has been lost today
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“In Afghanistan of all places. It is just so tragic that this would have happened to her there,” says an old friend and fellow photojournalist Moises Saman. “She was just really committed to that country in particular. You could see it in the sensitivity of her work, her understanding of that country.”
The AP photographer died after being shot by an Afghan police in Khost province.
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“My assignment, regardless of the era, is about people—civilians and soldiers,” she wrote. “The legacy of any photographer is her or his ability to capture the moment, to record history. For me it is about showing the struggle and survival of the individual.”
An Afghan policeman killed a veteran Associated Press photographer and wounded an AP reporter on Friday.
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Niedringhaus earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 as part of a team of AP photographers covering the Iraq War.
Ms. Brooks gave complexity to the “women’s features” she was assigned to in the postwar years.
Charlotte Brooks, one of only a handful of women ever hired to work as a full-time staff photographer at Look magazine, the major rival to Life in the heyday of American glossy photojournalism, died on March 15 at her home in Holmes, N.Y. She was 95.
I was very saddened to be reached by news of the death of David Alan Jay, who succumbed to his longtime disease at the age of 61 last October. David Jay (he was often called by both names together) was…
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I was very saddened to be reached by news of the death of David Alan Jay, who succumbed to his longtime disease at the age of 61 last October. David Jay (he was often called by both names together) was the Editor of Photo Techniques (itself recently deceased) from 1985 to 1994
Veteran Associated Press photojournalist Dave Martin collapsed on the field at the conclusion of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Game at the Georgia Dome on New Year’s Eve. First responders and team medical staff began immediate and vigorous cardiopulmonary resuscit
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Texas A&M made an unlikely comeback in the game’s closing minutes to beat Duke, and shortly before Martin collapsed he made a fantastic photograph of A&M coach Kevin Sumlin being doused with a bucket of ice water by some of the Aggies players. Among his many photographic skills, Martin was renown for his uncanny ability to get end-of-game Gatorade dunk shots and the traditional coaches’ post-game mid-field handshake. After that watery shot Martin continued to shoot pictures and when he got near to the coaches’ handshake, he collapsed in the background.
John Dominis, who photographed sports, politics, celebrities and culture as a staff photographer at LIFE from the 1950s to the 1970s, died December 30 at his home in New York City, Life.time.com reports. He had recently undergone heart surgery, according
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John Dominis, who photographed sports, politics, celebrities and culture as a staff photographer at LIFE from the 1950s to the 1970s, died December 30 at his home in New York City, Life.time.com reports. He had recently undergone heart surgery, according to a website set up by his companion, Evelyn Floret.
There are some iconic images that stick in our minds when we reflect on the past 11 years about Iraq. Perhaps footage of US contractors who were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Or George W. Bush ducking a flying shoe during a press con
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There are some iconic images that stick in our minds when we reflect on the past 11 years about Iraq. Perhaps footage of US contractors who were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Or George W. Bush ducking a flying shoe during a press conference in Baghdad. Iraqi cameraman, Yasser Faisal Al-Joumaili is the source of these and many other resonant images from the Iraq war years.
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The photographers we lost this year pursued their craft with rigor and passion. Nearly all photographed until the very end, which for some came all too soon. They lived their lives with, and to varying degrees through, their cameras.
Bruce Moyer, 52, the deputy director of photography for the Tampa Bay Times and an award-winning photography editor and mentor, died last night following a spirited battle with brain cancer.
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Bruce Moyer, 52, the deputy director of photography for the Tampa Bay Times and an award-winning photography editor and mentor, died last night following a spirited battle with brain cancer.
Saul Leiter Saul Leiter, a color photographer’s color photographer, died a week ago today. I suspect he’ll be one of those photographers we learn more about as time passes, rather than less; he strikes me as a figure who will…
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I suspect he’ll be one of those photographers we learn more about as time passes, rather than less; he strikes me as a figure who will be known a century from now, once all the claims and pretenses and strivings of more effortful reputations have had a chance to fall away.
American photographer Saul Leiter died on Tuesday 26 November in New York, according to Roger Szmulewicz at Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium. Leiter, who was 89, had been ill for the past three to four weeks, Szmulewicz tells BJP. ‘I spo
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Celebrated photographer Saul Leiter, best known for his iconic fashion and art photography, has died, his gallery tells BJP