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Demulder Dies

Postby Raskill on Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:08 am

FRENCH war photographer Francoise Demulder, the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo award, has died aged 61, her friend US journalist Phyllis Sipahioglu said today.

She died of a heart attack at her home in the Paris suburb of Levallois, Sipahioglu and other friends said at the Perpignan photojournalism festival in southwestern France.

Demulder, known as Fifi to her friends in the media, covered many of the major wars of the latter part of last century.

She won the World Press Photo prize in 1976 for a black and white picture of a Palestinian refugee woman pleading with a masked gunman in a war-ravaged district of Beirut.

(text from news.com.au)

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