Date of Birth | 09-June-1947 | |
Place of Birth |
Paris (ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine) |
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Nationality | France | |
Profession | Photographer | |
Françoise Demulder was a French war photographer who in 1976 became the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award. The winning image was a black-and-white photo of a Palestinian woman raising her hands at a masked militiaman in Beirut's war-ravaged La Quarantaine district. Demulder died on 3 September 2008 aged 61, having suffered a heart attack at a hospital in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. |
Awards by Françoise Demulder |
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Check all the awards nominated and won by Françoise Demulder. | ||||||||||||
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