Jean-Marc Bouju

Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a Los Angeles-based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.

Jean-Marc Bouju
Born1961
Les Sables-d'Olonne
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
University of Nice
AwardsWorld Press Photo of the Year 2004

Early life and education

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

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

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
  1. "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. 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. "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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