Alexandra Boulat, 45; French photojournalist worked in war zones
Alexandra Boulat, 45, a French photojournalist whose work from Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia gave the world an intimate look at life in conflict zones, died Friday in a Paris hospital, her photo agency said.
Boulat, the daughter of celebrated Life magazine photographer Pierre Boulat, suffered an aneurysm in June and had since been in a coma, according to her mother, Annie Boulat, the founder of the France-based Cosmos photo agency.
Born in Paris in 1962, Boulat started her career with the Sipa Press agency before co-founding VII photo agency in 2001.
She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Iraq, and reported on the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. She had lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah for the last two years, most recently covering the rise of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Her photos often focused on war’s innocent victims, particularly children.
Other projects explored the condition of women in the Muslim world, and she did a series on legendary French designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Boulat’s photographs have been published in magazines including Time, Newsweek and National Geographic.
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