Yuri Kozyrev wins Bayeux Calvados War Photographer Award
Image courtesy of the Prix Bayeux Calvados. © Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR.
Noor photojournalist Yuri Kozyrev has swept the photography categories at this year's Bayeux Calvados Awards for his recent work in Libya
Author: Olivier Laurent
08 Oct 2011 Tags: BayeuxPhotojournalismAward
Yuri Kozyrev, a Noor photographer, has won the overall photography category, as well as the Public Choice Award for his iconic image shot in Libya in early 2011 [shown above].
The awards were presented in a ceremony in the French town of Bayeux. For his work, Kozyrev will receive two cash prizes of €7000 and €3000.
Photographers Pedro Pardo of Agence France Presse and Rebecca Blackwell of Associated Press respectively came second and third in the photography category for their work in Mexico and Ivory Coast.
Kozyrev's wins come a month after he received the Visa d'Or News Award, worth €8000, at the Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival. Since December 2010, the Noor photographer has been covering the Arab Spring movement, which has brought down and challenged regimes across the Middle East. His work has been hailed as being one of the most comprehensive and coherent to emerge from that period.
Read more about Kozyrev's work in BJP's profile here.
For more information about the Bayeux-Calvados Award, visit www.prixbayeux.org.
Comments
Modern war photography is mainly used as imperialist propaganda.
NATO are far more aware of how to conduct a propaganda war than they were in the past and modern photographers are cynically used for what could be graphically described as for 'evil' purposes!
Many photographers have lost their lives in these conflicts and it is so sad that their work is appropriated in this way.
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