Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books
AWARD YEAR: 1999
AWARD NAME: The Olivier Rebbot Award 1999
RECIPIENT: Gilles Peress
AFFILIATION: Gilles Peress/Magnum for The New Yorker
HONORED WORK: “Kosovar Refugees”
Gilles Peress combined art and photojournalism in this visual essay on the Kosovar refugee crisis. His images are highly personal and speak metaphorically of the struggle that the displaced endured.
Citations for Excellence:
Peter Turnley
(Black Star/Newsweek)
“Fields of Sorrow: Kosovo 1999”
Alexandra Boulat
Sipa Press for TIME/National Geographic
“Kosovo: Shattered Lives”