Hocine Zaourar (born 18 December 1952),[1] also known by the mononym Hocine, is an Algerian photojournalist. His photograph of a woman grieving after the Bentalha massacre in Algeria, dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha", won both the World Press Photo of the Year[2] and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 1998.
Life and work
editHocine took up photography in 1970.[3] He joined Reuters as a photojournalist in 1989 and worked for Agence France-Presse from January 1993.[3] Initially he worked in various countries, in particular Somalia, Rwanda and Zaire, but later worked entirely in Algeria.[3]
Hocine's photograph titled "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalha" was made on 23 September 1997 outside Zmirli Hospital, 15 km from Algiers. Dead and wounded people had been taken to the hospital after the Bentalha massacre by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria the previous night, during the Algerian Civil War.[4] The photograph was published on the front pages of many newspapers,[5] and was later dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha" or "Bentalha Madonna".[6][7][8] It caused controversy in Algeria[9] and "has been credited with focusing attention on political violence" in the country.[10]
Awards
edit- 1998: Winner, World Press Photo of the Year 1997, World Press Photo, Amsterdam for "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalh"[11]
- 1998: First Prize, People in the News – Singles category, World Press Photo 1997, Amsterdam for "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalh"[12]
- 1998: The Public Prize, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents, Bayeux, France[13] for "Femmes algériennes"[14]
References
edit- ^ "Zaourar Hocine". Artsper. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ "World Press Photo à Hocine pour la "madonne algérienne"". Libération.fr. 21 April 1998. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ a b c "Hocine". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ "Prize winners: 'Independent' photographers shine at World Press Photo". The Independent. 14 February 1998. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ Salami, Gitti; Visona, Monica Blackmun (24 December 2013). A Companion to Modern African Art. John Wiley & Sons. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-4443-3837-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ "'Madonna in hell' captures the grief and despair of war-torn Algeria". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ^ "The Madonna Of Bentalha: The Iconic Image From Algerian Civil War". International Business Times. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ^ Mundy, Jacob (9 September 2015). Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics. Stanford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8047-9583-8 – via Google Books.
- ^ "La fondation World Press Photo à Constantine : Le photojournaliste algérien Hocine Zaourar honoré". El Watan. Archived from the original on 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ Foley, Michael. "Top award for Eric Luke". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ "L'encombrante "madone" d'Hocine Zaourar". Le Monde.fr. 6 October 2005. Retrieved 2020-05-10 – via Le Monde.
- ^ "1998 Hocine PN1". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ^ "Radio: le prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre a été décerné samedi 17 octobre". Le Monde. 21 October 1998. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ^ "Presentation – Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award". www.prixbayeux.org. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
Further reading
edit- Hanrot, Juliette (8 February 2012). La Madone de Bentalha: Histoire d'une photographie. Paris: Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-27682-9 – via Google Books.
- Hanrot, Juliette; Clévenot, Dominique (10 June 2012). "Fabrique d'une icône : La Madone de Bentalha. Entretien avec Juliette Hanrot. Par Dominique Clévenot". Écrire l'Histoire. Histoire, Littérature, Esthétique (9): 111–118. doi:10.4000/elh.252. ISSN 1967-7499.