{"id":41,"date":"2007-06-26T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:59:34","slug":"alexandra-boulat-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Boulat in Coma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world of photography was shocked to learn at the weekend that Alexandra Boulat<\/strong>, one of the founders of VII<\/strong> and a fine photojournalist, had suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm while working in Israel and is critically ill in the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. According to the VII <\/a>site, Alex had surgery on Thursday morning to stop the bleeding in her brain; the operation was successful and she is currently in a medically induced coma, which gives her the best conditions for recovery. I’m sure everyone wishes her well, and contributions to her medical expenses are welcomed – details are on the VII site.<\/p>\n

Alex was born in 1962 in Paris, and her parents were both connected to photography. Pierre Boulat<\/strong> (1924-98) was a Life <\/em>staff photographer in the 1950s and 60s and Annie Boulat<\/strong> founded and still owns the Paris-based Cosmos <\/a>agency (its photographers include Bruno Stevens<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Pierre began working for Samedi Soir <\/em>in Paris in 1945, and photographed both in Paris and overseas for the magazine. His pictures appeared in Life <\/em>from 1953 to 1976, and he photographed many leading celebrities, including Aristotle Onassis, Federico Fellini and Duke Ellington. From 1973 on he became a freelance again.<\/p>\n

Not suprisingly Alex started taking pictures when she was 12 and became a photographer in 1989 after training in graphic art and art history. She became well-known for her work covering the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and in particular for her fine work on Kosovo<\/a>, which showed the efect of the violence on the every-day lives of the people there, and gained her the Golden Visa Award<\/em> at the Perpignan Visa pour l’image<\/em>, in 1998, and both an ICP Infinity Award<\/em> and an Alfred Eisenstadt Award <\/em>from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism<\/em> in 1999. Other awards came from the NPPA, World Press Photo, Overseas Press Club<\/em> etc.<\/p>\n

Alex worked for the SIPA <\/em>agency founded by G\u00f6ksin Sipahioglu<\/a> in Paris for 10 years until 2000. In September 2001, together with Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer<\/em> she founded Agence VII<\/em>. Her work appeared in leading magazines around the world, particularly in the National Geographic Magazine,<\/em> Time <\/a><\/em>and Paris Match<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can see her photography on the VII <\/em>site, and also at War Photo Ltd<\/a> and the Hasted Hunt Gallery<\/a>. Photojournalism is a tough trade, and demands a great deal from people. As someone who has found her images both moving and informing I’d certainly want to add my wishes for her rapid and complete recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world of photography was shocked to learn at the weekend that Alexandra Boulat, one of the founders of VII and a fine photojournalist, had suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm while working in Israel and is critically ill in the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. According to the VII site, Alex had surgery on Thursday … Continue reading Alexandra Boulat in Coma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","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\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}