Benjamin Lowy ~ "Iraq | Perspectives"

Since then he has covered major stories worldwide. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, he was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi , PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Lowy has been a finalist for the Oskar Barnak Award, been nominated three times for the ICP Infinity Award, a finalist in Critical Mass, included in Magenta Flash Forward 2007, and was included in the OSI Moving Walls 16 exhibit. Benjamin's work from Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, his work has shown at the Tate Modern, SF MOMA, Houston Center for Photography, Invalides, and Arles. His work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign.

In 2011 Lowy's Iraq | Perspecitves work was selected by William Eggleston to win the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. A book will be printed and out in stores this Fall.

Benjamin lives in New York City with his wife, photographer Marvi Lacar, their son Mateo, and two dogs.

Lowy is currently represented by Reportage by Getty Images.

http://benlowy.com

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Photographer Yuri Kozyrev Wins 2 Prix Bayeux-Calvados Awards for Libya Coverage

Photographer Yuri Kozyrev, who covered the conflict in Libya for Time magazine, won the Photo Trophy and the Public Prize for photography at the Priz Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondents de Guerre, a four-day festival devoted to war reporting, which takes place in Bayeux, France.

Kozyrev, a member of Noor Images, covered the escalating conflict between rebels opposed to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafy and the Libyan army for Time in February and March, and again in August as rebels closed in on the country’s capital, Tripoli. He has also photographed in Yemen, Egypt and Bahrain since the start of the Arab spring. In September, Kozyrev was awarded the Visa D’Or prize for news photography at the Visa Pour L’Image festival in Perpignan, France. [via PDN]

Yuri Kozyrev's Award Winning Images—(top) A damaged oil facility burns as a man prays in Ras Lanuf, March 11, 2011. (bottom) Ras Lanuf, Libya, March: Rebels flee under fire from the Libyan army.

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev is in eastern Libya, documenting the battle between Gaddafi loyalists and rebel forces. Though he’s been covering conflict for years, he said this is the most dangerous place he’s worked. “It’s like Russian roulette,” he said. “Nobody knows where the bomb will fall.” There were “helicopters shooting at us, rockets — it was heavy. There was no place to hide.”

Kozyrev spoke to TIME as Libyan rebels, emboldened by allied airstrikes, pushed westward toward Sert, birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi. “When we reached the western gate outside of Ajdabiyah, the rebels told us tamam, good all the way to Brega. We followed the rebel trucks to Ras Lanouf. As we pushed forward, more rebels stayed behind, camping on the highway.”

“We have been chasing the rebels all day,” he wrote Sunday, from an abandoned, looted hotel in Ras Lanouf. The highway behind them was littered with crippled tanks, trucks, cars and stores of unspent ammunition. “Gaddafi’s troops appear to have left in a hurry,” he wrote, “abandoning ammunition and disappearing without a fight.”



More images from Kozyrev documenting the conflict in Libya

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