Friday Services In France For Alexandra Boulat, 45
PARIS, FRANCE (October 8) - Funeral plans have been announced for VII photojournalist Alexandra Boulat, 45, who died Friday in hospital in Paris after being in a coma since suffering an aneurism while on assignment in Ramallah in June.
Services will be held Friday, October 12, at 2:30 p..m. in the Church of Jacqueville next to the cemetery where her father, Life magazine photographer Pierre Boulat, is buried. Jacqueville is near Fontainebleau, about an hour south of Paris.
"The Boulat family thanks everyone for their goodwill and compassion, which is of great support at this time, Nick Papadopoulos of VII said from Paris.
The Boulat family would like to announce that a foundation to continue Alexandra and Pierre's legacy will be established in the coming weeks, Papadopoulos said. The foundation will support the ideals an issues that Alexandra and Pierre were concerned with. Those interested in making a donation to the foundation can get more information by writing to boulat_foundation@viiphoto.com. Boulat was the daughter of Pierre and Annie Boulat (the founder of the French photo agency Cosmos).
Those who wish to send flowers to the funeral Friday may do so by addressing them to Cimetiére de Jackqueville, 77 760 Amponville, France, according to Papadopoulos.
"Her friends around the world are heartbroken and with them we extend our love and condolences to the Boulat family and Alex's loving partner Issa," Papadopoulos said. "Her friendship, courage, spirit and creativity touched all of our lives and will remain dear memories always."
Boulat suffered a brain hemorrhage while on assignment in Ramallah. Afterwards she underwent a 5-hour operation at the Hadassah hospital in Israel where doctors stopped the bleeding and stabilized her condition. To give her rest and aid the recovery, doctors put her into a coma and performed some other minor surgeries to make her breathing easier. Then she was moved to the Lariboisière hospital in Paris where she was cared for in the neurosurgery department and cared for by her mother.
Before VII, Boulat shot for the photo agency Sipa Press and often focused her coverage on the innocent victims of war, women and children living in conflict zones. For the last two years she had been living in the West Bank covering the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Earlier in her career she documented the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and war in Iraq, and the conditions for women in the Muslim world.
She was one of the founding members of the VII agency and has been primarily a conflict photographer in the Middle East, joining VII when it was established in 2001. She was trained in graphic art and art history at the Beaux Arts in Paris. Her news and feature stories have been published in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and Paris-Match. She won awards from the Overseas Press Club in 2003 for her coverage of Afghanistan, and was named Best Woman Photographer by the Bevento Oscars in Italy in 2006.
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