| Jean-Marc Bouju | |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Les Sables-d'Olonne |
| Alma Mater: | University of Texas at Austin University of Nice |
| Awards: | World Press Photo of the Year 2004 |
Jean-Marc Bouju (born 1961) is a Los Angeles–based French photographer who won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2004.
Bouju was born in Les Sables d’Olonne, in France in 1961.[1]
Has a master's degree in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin, having first been connected to Texas via an internship from his local University of Nice.[2]
He has worked at the Daily Texan and the Associated Press where he won the Associated Press Managing Editors Award in 1995, 1996 and in 1997.[3]
He has worked in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zaire, and Iraq.[4]
His photography of the Rwandan genocide co-won a 1995 Pulitzer prize for feature photography.[5] In 1999, he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for news photography for his photography of the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[6]
In 2004, Bouju won the World Press Photo of the Year award for his 2003 photograph of US prisoner of war comforting his son while being held in near Najaf.[7] [8] [9]
In 2003, Bouju was involved in a vehicle collision that damaged his spinal cord.
Bouju is based in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife and daughter.