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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence
Title:The Fall of Bab al-Azizia
Tripoli, 23 August 2011. A fighter, armed with two Kalashnikov rifles, shoots in a ball in front of a tent in fire, in the complex of Bab al-Aziziyah, Kadhafi's headquarters, fell to the insurgents.
Biography:
Philippe is a french photographer born in 1972. After studying cinema in Paris, he becomes a freelance photographer in 1994. From 1995, he starts to work focusing in Africa and more precisely in South-Africa, Cameroon, Benin and Ivory-Coast. After several films and photography features, he decides to relocate to Paris in 1998, working on assignment for magazines.
In 2000, he works for the daily newspaper Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France, where he is today international staff reporter.
He has covered major stories worldwide, in Haiti, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya,... |
