Erik Refner

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Erik Refner
Born14 January 1971 (1971-01-14) (age 51)
Copenhagen
Alma mater Danish School of Media and Journalism
Awards World Press Photo of the Year 2002
Cavling Prize 2009

Erik Refner (born 14 January 1971) is a Danish photographer and former pentathlete, soldier, and model.

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He is best known for winning the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2002 as a student. He also won the Cavling Prize in 2009.

Early life

Refner was born on the 14th January 1971 in Copenhagen and grew up in the north of the city. [1] [2] As a teenager he travelled internationally, including living for three months in an Israeli kibbutz. [2]

Adult life

In the 1990s, Refner was a sergeant in the Royal Danish army after which he spent one year as part of the Danish pentathlon team. [1] [3] He then worked as a model for seven years, before switching to photography after one of the photographers he was working with needed an assistant. [1] [4]

He won the World Press Photo of the Year in 2002, while studying at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, which he attended from 1998 to 2002. [5] His winning photograph was of the burial of a young Afghan boy in Pakistan, whose family had fled to Jalozai to escape violence in their home country. [5] [6]

His early work was focussed on photography in conflict zones and took him to Afghanistan, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine, and Iraq. [5] He worked at the Berlingske newspaper for eleven years, and did commercial photography for Canon, Coca Cola, Maersk and Nike. [5] [1] He has been published in Elle, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Phaidon, The New York Times, and Marie Claire. [5] He won the Cavling Prize in 2009. [5]

In 2015, he founded the IDIP.Agency to help photographers obtain payment for copyright infringements. [5]

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