News & Information (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The definitions I use to differentiate between photojournalism and art photography are that in photojournalism the picture is meant to illustrate a story, and that in art photography the picture is the……Read more
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Association, created to promote the work of Pierre & Alexandra Boulat and encourage the work of photojournalists has created an award, supported by a CANON endowment of 8000 euros. The award is presented to a professional photographer of any age, sex or nationality who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural issue in a journalistic manner, on presentation...
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association Formed in the memory of Pierre and Alexandra Boulat by friends and family after the death of Alexandra Boulat in 2007, the Association seeks to keep the spirit of father and daughter alive through making their work available to the public and creating an annual grant for a photographer and sponsoring the education of young photographers. Membership of the Association...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 19/03/2008
I’d been in Baghdad for the first Gulf War and was probably one of the first journalists to get to the bomb shelter when the bombs started raining in. AC 360 takes a look back at the start of the Iraq War and where it stands now five years later. WATCH: “Shock & Awe: 5 Years [...]
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Remembering all those of us who won't be around on New Year's eve to get wasted (and who won't have to endure leftover turkey for two weeks after Christmas). Alexandra Boulat (I am going to get so drunk for you on Dec 31st that I will probably wake up in 2009) Saif Fakhri Dmitry Chebotayev and Evel Knievel
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 30/10/2007
Media Talk: Is it over for frontline reporting? Tue 13th November, 7.00pm RSVP essential Location: New York – Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St, Brooklyn NY 11201 Is it now too dangerous to do frontline reporting given the targeting of journalists and the risk of being taken hostage in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia? What can be done to get access to those countries shutting out journalists and preventing...
it's what I do... (Free subscription) | 27/10/2007
Alexandra was one of the most creative photographers of her genre. RIP Alexandra. Alexandra Boulat, an award-winning photographer known for a clear, descriptive style and a knack for making emotionally moving, often idiosyncratic images of people affected by war, died yesterday in Paris. She was 45. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Alexandra Boulat/VII Ms. Boulat often focused on the displaced:...
MultimediaShooter (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
Head over to the vii multimedia site for a few must see multimedia stories. In particular check out Road Works by Antonin Kratochvil, Kids and Money by Lauren Greenfield and any of the pieces by Alexandra Boulat. Her photography and journalism will truly be missed, and the work on stories about women in the middle [...]
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
Alexandra Boulat Earlier this week, the French photojournalist Alexandra Boulat died in Paris. Boulat was one of the founders of the photo agency VII and her pictures often found their way into the pages of Time . Around the end of every year I collaborate with Time 's photo editors on the special issue devoted to Images of the Year. Last year we were so impressed by Boulat's work in Gaza that we...
Middle East Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
With the death of Alexandra Boulat, TIME lost a superb photographer, and I lost an amazing friend. Assigned together as writer and photographer, our friendship opened up in strange, usually dangerous, places: Afghanistan during the Taliban's reign and fall, Gaza, Beirut. Alex also acted impeccably under the worst circumstances. She was very French, in that willowy, elegant way that French women have,...
Middle East Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Alexandra Boulat 1962-2007 Photo by Pierre Boulat (courtesy of VII agency) We are mourning the death of Alexandra Boulat, one of journalism's finest photographers, who has died in Paris at age 45. Her funeral will take place on Friday in a village about 50 miles south of Paris near the Fontainebleau forest. Alexandra spent many years covering the Middle East (as well as many other places and subjects...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
“[My photos of] the sky full of smoke, or all those soldiers going through the sandstorm in Baghdad, or just a body wrapped in a white sheet. These things are very strong -- they have got a real impact and also they tell about the environment, the place and what it is there. They tell about death very quickly. They tell about war in daily life, which is more than the war as you can imagine it. You...
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
for those of you who wish to attend... Alexandra's funeral will be held on Friday the 12th of October, 2007 at 2:30 pm in the Church of Jacqueville near her family home. also... The family would like to announce that a Foundation to continue Alexandra's and Pierre's legacy will be established in the coming weeks. The Foundation will support the ideals and issues that inspired their work. If you would...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/10/2007
“You can show a war without showing a gun”, wrote the French photojournalist Alexandra Boulat soon after returning from a shattered Baghdad in 2003. For someone who was self-effacing about her work and her methodology, it was an uncharacteristically weighty remark, but it succinctly conveys an approach to photography that made her one of its brightest young stars.
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 06/10/2007
Such heartbreak and my family’s heart and prayers go out to the Boulat family and to her partner Issa. If there is any consolation, and there seldom is enough to gather in the heart which wrenches under such sadness, it must be this: that Alexandra’s photographs were, are and shall remain an inspiration for many of us, in their quite and poignant truth. That she shed light upon many of the places in...
