donderdag, juni 05, 2003
The international photographic community is rallying behind Françoise "Fifi" Demulder, the trailblazing photojournalist who has been confined to a Paris hospital since last October. In undergoing treatment for lymphoma, the 56-year-old French photographer was cured of cancer but is now paralyzed from the waist down. A committee of friends and colleagues are asking for donated prints, which they plan to auction off to help pay her medical bills.
Demulder covered most of the major conflicts of the past 30 years, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq and Lebanon. During the first attack on Baghdad in 1991, she was one of the few photojournalists to remain at the Al Rasheed Hotel. But it was during her 10 years in Beirut that Demulder captured her most acclaimed photo. The scene was a Palestinian refugee camp called the Quarantaine, in 1976. Demulder captured the conflict in a dramatic photo of a woman begging for her husband’s life. The photo won the World Press Photo award that year, and marked the first time a woman was honored with the top prize.
Bron: PDN.
foto Françoise Demulder
Demulder covered most of the major conflicts of the past 30 years, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq and Lebanon. During the first attack on Baghdad in 1991, she was one of the few photojournalists to remain at the Al Rasheed Hotel. But it was during her 10 years in Beirut that Demulder captured her most acclaimed photo. The scene was a Palestinian refugee camp called the Quarantaine, in 1976. Demulder captured the conflict in a dramatic photo of a woman begging for her husband’s life. The photo won the World Press Photo award that year, and marked the first time a woman was honored with the top prize.
Bron: PDN.
foto Françoise Demulder
# posted by Jan-Edward : 21:41
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