Friday, June 24, 2011

Marcus Bleasdale


Marcus Bleasdale
“Marcus continues to cover issues underreported and forgotten by today’s media “

 

Marcus Bleasdale’s work has been honored by Photo District News (PDN) as amongst the most iconic photography of the 21st century. His coverage of ten years of conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been published in two books, “One Hundred Years of Darkness”,

(recognized in the best photojournalism books in 2002 by PDN) and "Rape Of A Nation" (2010).

In 2007, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute awarded Marcus a grant to continue his work on justice and accountability in the DRC. He is widely published in
the UK, Europe and the USA in publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Geo, Stern, The New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek and National Geographic Magazine.

Marcus continues to cover issues underreported and forgotten by today’s media and is based in Oslo, Norway.