Khalil Hamra

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Khalil Hamra (born 1979, Kuwait) is an Arab photojournalist based on Rafah in the Gaza Strip. In 2009, Hamra was recognized by the Overseas Press Club of America with its 2010 Robert Capa Gold Medal for his series covering the war in Gaza.

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Background

Khalil Hamra was born in Kuwait in 1979 to Palestinian parents and raised in Qatar, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories. [1] In 2002, a year after graduating from the Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in journalism, Hamra took work as a freelancer with the Associated Press, based in Rafah.[ citation needed ]

In 2004, Hamra's work was featured in a group exhibition of AP photojournalists in the annual international Visa Pour L'image festival in Perpignan, France; that same year, he received a 2nd prize from Editor & Publisher for photographs he had taken of a tank strike in Israel. [2] In 2009, he received the Overseas Press Club of America's "Robert Capa Gold Medal" for a series of photographs entitled "War in Gaza", becoming the first Associated Press photographer to win the award in more than thirty years. [1] The Overseas Press Club praised his images as "close up, powerful and direct and taken at considerable risk due to the nature of the conflict which had combatants mingling amongst the civilian population." [3] In February 2011, Hamra himself made news when he was injured documenting demonstrations in Tahrir Square, Alexandria during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Winslow, Donald R. (22 April 2010). "AP's Khalil Hamra Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal Award". National Press Photographers Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Khalil Hamra - Biography". War Photo Ltd. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2009". Overseas Press Club of America. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Khalil Hamra". The Oregonian . AP. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Winner's List". Days Japan. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  6. ↑ New York Times Wins Four Pulitzer Prizes
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