October 16 2012
But for a direct
hit on a makeshift media centre used by international journalists during the
shelling of Homs by Syrian forces, Remi Ochlik would have been 29 today.
Born in 1983 in
Thionville in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, Remi’s ambitions of
taking up archaeology were cast aside when his grandfather gifted him with an
Olympus OM-1, one of the iconic cameras from the era of the 35mm film.
Graduating from the Icart Photo School he joined the photographic agency
Wostok, achieving a career breakthrough covering the riots in Haiti in 2004. Through a proposal by an editor of
Paris Match, Remi Ochlik’s images were projected at the Visa pour l’Image International Photojournalism Festival
though not before his pictures had won him the Francois Chalais Award for Young
Reporters.
Founding IP3,
his own photographic agency in 2005, Remi began to cover many political events
not only in his native France but in the Democratic Republic of Congo, again in
Haiti and more recently the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 and 2012. Remi’s
image of a Libyan rebel fighter won him the first prize at the 2012 World Press
Photo awards.
On
February 22 this year, he and fellow journalist Marie Colvin lost their lives
when working in Syria. It is widely believed that the building they were in was
deliberately targeted. In a career that was so tragically cut short, Remi’s
photographs will live on as a powerful reminder of the conflicts that exist in
our world today as much of his work may be seen in several publications and on
many websites.
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