{"id":1274,"date":"2011-03-17T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T10:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T10:23:04","slug":"hughes-leglise-bataille-1968-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Leglise-Bataille (1968-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photojournalist Hughes L\u00e9glise-Bataille<\/a> along with six others, including his wife and sister-in-law were killed when the van in which they were travelling in Brazil was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry.<\/p>\n

I first heard of Hughes L\u00e9glise-Bataille when his pictures of Demonstrations in Paris<\/a> won the first prize for News Blogs in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest in 2007 for a dramatic silhouette of a protesters on the fence in front of a floodlit Assembl\u00e9e Nationale<\/em>. It was just one of 30 pictures in a set still on Flickr<\/a> taken at a series of demonstrations against a new French employment law in March\/April 2006.<\/p>\n

I remember later reading a feature which mentioned his decision to abandon investment banking (a career for 13 years in Sao Paulo and New York) and become a professional photojournalist. From October 2009 worked for the French Agency Wostok Press<\/em>, where you can see more of his work<\/a>, including a set of recent pictures from Tahrir Square.<\/p>\n

He continued to contribute his pictures to Flickr and to take an active part in discussions of the ‘Hard Core Street Photography<\/a>‘ Group, where he was also known simply as ‘Hugo’.<\/p>\n

You can see more of his work on his Photoshelter site<\/a>, which features some fine photojournalistic images as well as some of his street photography, which I find of rather less interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photojournalist Hughes L\u00e9glise-Bataille along with six others, including his wife and sister-in-law were killed when the van in which they were travelling in Brazil was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry. I first heard of Hughes L\u00e9glise-Bataille when his pictures of Demonstrations in Paris won the first prize for News Blogs in the … Continue reading Hughes Leglise-Bataille (1968-2011)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}