Bénédicte
Kurzen is based in
Johannesburg. She holds a master’s degree with Excellence in Contemporary
History from the Sorbonne, Paris. She also studied semiology for one year, and
wrote her final essay about the “myth of the war photographer”. In 2003, she
moved to Israel and took up photography, covering hard news in the Gaza Strip,
later working in Iraq, and Lebanon. Her work has appeared in The New York Times , Time , The Ne Yorker , Newsweek, Stern and Paris
Match, among others. Encouraged by Stanley Greene to contribute to a
“Violence Against Women” project, Benedicte changed from news to documentary
photography, covering the situation of widows in the Gaza Strip, which was
screened in Visa pour l’image, 2005. The same year, with five others, she
founded EVE Photographers , whose projects
have been exhibited in various festival and veues. She moved to South Africa
traveling across Africa from there, since then. She was awarded Second Place at
the BOP in 2009 for her portrait of Congolese warlord General Nkunda. She was
part of the Joop Swart Masterclass 2009 and joined the VII Network last year.
All images © BENEDICTE KURZEN / VII MENTOR FOR TIME
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