Jean Chung Wins Inaugural Boulat Photography Grant

 

PARIS (September 11, 2008) – The inaugural Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association grant has been awarded to Jean Chung for her photography project, "Tears in Congo."

Annie Boulat, the mother of the late photojournalist Alexandra Boulat and the widow of Life magazine photographer Pierre Boulat, announced the grant this week from Paris.

Chung's proposal was picked by grant jurors MaryAnn Golon, Kent Kobersteen, Jerome Delay, and Gary Knight last week in Perpignan during the annual photography festival.

Chung is a freelance photojournalist who shoots for World Picture Network in New York in and Onasia in Bangkok. Previously she received the CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage in 2007 for "Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan," and her work has been widely published in major newspapers and magazines.

The winning Boulat grant proposal from Chung was for the continuation of her Congo project, which is already in progress. She has documented the aftermath of sexual violence committed by Congolese and Rwandan rebels and some of the hundreds of thousands of women who have been victims of the violence during the interethnic conflict.

Boulat says the grant is in the amount of 8,000 Euro and the award is sponsored in part by Canon Europe.

Chung's photographs will be presented next year at the festival in Perpignan, Boulat said when she announced the winning grant.

 

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