Alixandra Fazzina
Alixandra Fazzina (born 1974) is a British photojournalist.[1] She won the UNHCR's 2010 Nansen Refugee Award for her work documenting the effect of war on uprooted people,[2][3] and was sortlisted for the 2015 Prix Pictet.
Life and work
Fazzina was born in East London but spent much of her childhood in the Netherlands because of her father's employment. She studied fine art at the University of Bristol, and in 1995, before she graduated, was appointed as an official war artist in Bosnia. While there she developed her interest in photography, and spent much of the next seven years working in Africa. In 2008 she had an assignment in Afghanistan and then decided to base herself in Pakistan.[1]
In 2008 she published A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia. The title reflects the fare paid (about 50 pounds sterling) by refugees fleeing from Somalia and Ethiopia to get from Mogadishu to the coast of the Gulf of Aden and across to Yemen or Saudi Arabia.[1]
Publication by Fazzina
- A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia. Trolley Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1904563846. With an introduction by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres.
Award
- 2015: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet on the theme "Disorder", which was won by Valérie Belin.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Foreman, Jonathan (13 September 2010). "Alixandra Fazzina: Witness to the devastation". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "British photojournalist wins 2010 Nansen Refugee Award". UNHCR. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ Cain, Sian (20 May 2015). "Alixandra Fazzina's best photograph: a mother breastfeeding in Afghanistan". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Alixandra Fazzina". Portfolios: Disorder. Prix Pictet. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
External links
- Fazzini's profile at NOOR photo agency
- "Alixandra Fazzina: an instrument of advocacy" – slideshow of Fazzina's photographs at The Telegraph