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Benedicte kurzen biography definition
Bénédicte Kurzen
French photographer and photojournalist
Bénédicte Kurzen (born 1980), is a French photographer and photojournalist. She is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Biography
Kurzen was born in Lyon.
She graduated with a master's degree in contemporary history from Sorbonne University in Paris. She also studied semiology for one year.
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She devoted her thesis to the "war photographer's myth", a subject that inspired her to become herself a visual storyteller.[1]
Her work has been published in The New York Times,Paris Match,The New Yorker,Le Monde Magazine and Newsweek.[2][3][4][5]
Works
In 2003, Kurzen moved to Israel, where she covered as a freelancer journalist the conflicts emanating from the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon.
It was at this time that she seriously began her photography.[1]
In 2004, her photographic work turned to a more documentary style. She focused on the lives of suicide bombers a