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Bénédicte Kurzen

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Biography

Bénédicte Kurzen (born 1980), is a French photographer and photojournalist. She is based in Lagos, Nigeria. 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. She devoted her thesis to the “war photographer’s myth”, a subject that inspired her to become herself a visual storyteller. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Paris Match, The New Yorker, Le Monde Magazine and Newsweek.

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Nominated for the Visa d’Or for her work about ethnico-religious violences in Nigeria (“A Nation Lost to Gods, 2012). More recently, she won with photographer and NOOR colleague, Sanne De Wilde, the first Prize in the portrait category of the World Press Photo (2019) along with other prizes such as the CAP Prize and Liangzhou Award. In 2023, she receives with Muntaka Chasant and Anas Aremeyaw Anas the Carmignac photojournalism Award, for their collaborative project on e-waste.

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