Goodbye Alexandra

Alexan­dra Boulat, the iconic con­flict pho­tog­ra­pher, died yes­ter­day at the age of 45. She suf­fered a brain aneurysm while work­ing in Gaza this past June. She was place in a med­ically induced coma and never recovered.

Photo Jerome Delay/Associated Press, printed in the NYTimes.

Miss Boulat was at the top of the field. She was crit­i­cal of how we pic­ture war and made pow­er­ful con­tri­bu­tions to the style, char­ac­ter, and depth of pho­to­graphic cov­er­age of con­flict. I was dev­as­tated read­ing the obit­u­ary pub­lished by Photo Dis­trict News. I have long admired Miss Boulat’s work and heard her speak on sev­eral occa­sions. I felt espe­cially inspired and encour­aged by her pres­ence in the field as sharp and con­sci­en­tious woman. The pho­to­jour­nal­ism word does award good work regard­less of the photographer’s gen­der, but nav­i­gat­ing the field as a woman can be exhaust­ing. Her con­tri­bu­tions have given me faith in the power and poten­tial of photograph.

Her work can been viewed on the VII Photo website.