Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a

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–based French photographer who won the

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award in 2004.

Early life and education

Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961. Has a master's degree in photojournalism from the

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, having first been connected to Texas via an internship from his local

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Career

He has worked at the

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and the

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where he won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award in 1995, 1996 and in 1997. He has worked in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zaire, and Iraq. His photography of the

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co-won a 1995

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. In 1999, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for news photography for his photography of the

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. In 2004, Bouju won the

award for his 2003 photograph of US prisoner of war comforting his son while being held in near

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Personal life

In 2003, Bouju was involved in a vehicle collision that damaged his spinal cord. Bouju is based in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and daughter.

References

External links

2004 World Press Photo of the Year winning photo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouju, Jean-Marc Living people University of Texas at Austin alumni 1961 births 21st-century French photographers 20th-century French photographers French emigrants to the United States Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners