{"id":98,"date":"2007-10-07T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-10-07T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T21:51:25","slug":"alexandra-boulat-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Boulat dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I heard the sad news that Alexandra Boulat has died, aged 45. I wrote about her here in June after her hospitalization following a ruptured brain aneurysm while she was working in Israel. Doctors induced a coma to give her the best chance of recovery, but unfortunately she failed to recover, dying peacefully in Paris on October 5, as reported on the VII <\/a>site.<\/p>\n

You can see her portfolio <\/a>and read a brief biography on the VII site, and there is also a tribute on ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hers was a striking talent, and her death is a sad loss for photography as well as a great loss for all her friends and family. As it says on VII, “Her friendship, courage, spirit and creativity touched all of our lives and will remain dear memories always<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Here is the main part of what I wrote about her earlier:<\/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<\/strong>.)<\/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<\/strong> 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>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately my two articles linked to in my previous piece on Bruno Stevens and G\u00f6ksin Sipahioglu are currently not available on line – even on the Wayback Machine<\/a>, although you can find many of my older features there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I heard the sad news that Alexandra Boulat has died, aged 45. I wrote about her here in June after her hospitalization following a ruptured brain aneurysm while she was working in Israel. Doctors induced a coma to give her the best chance of recovery, but unfortunately she failed to recover, dying peacefully in … Continue reading Alexandra Boulat dies<\/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-98","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}