Marcus Bleasdale

Marcus Bleasdale (born 1968) is a photojournalist, born in the UK to an Irish family. He spent over eight years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the work was published in his book One Hundred Years of Darkness, recognized in the best photojournalism books of the year 2002 by Photo District News in the USA.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

Bleasdale is widely published in Europe and the USA in The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Geo, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic.

Awards

Bleasdale has received acclaim for his work over the years, including several first prizes in POY and NPPA awards.

In 2004 he was awarded UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, the 3p Grant and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He exhibited in New York at Moving Walls 2005 and was awarded the OSI Distribution Grant 2005 for his work with Human Rights Watch. Bleasdale's images have also been chosen by Photo District News as 'one of the most iconic of the 21st century'.^{[dubious – discuss]}

In 2005 Bleasdale was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by POYi. In 2006 he was awarded a World Press Daily Life award and won the prestigious OPC Olivier Rebbot Award.

In 2007 Bleasdale was awarded a Freedom of Expression grant for his new project on our relationship with oil. He was also short-listed for the Amnesty International Photojournalism Awards.

In 2009 Bleasdale won Magazine news award in POYi by [1].

In 2010 he was awarded the Hansel-Mieth Award and won the prestigious POY best book award in the USA [2]. Finally he was awarded the Anthropographia award for photography and Human Rights [3].

Bleasdale is represented by the VII Photo Agency.^[1]

Book

• One Hundred Years of Darkness. London: Pirogue, 2003. ISBN 0954301501.
• The Rape of a Nation. London: Mets and Schilt, 2009. ISBN 9789053306710.

References

1. ^ Daryl Lang, "VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers", Photo District News Online, 22 January 2008.

External links

• Marcus Bleasdale online
• "Rape of a Nation" by Marcus Bleasdale on MediaStorm
• VII Photo Agency

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