Morvan was born in Paris in 1954. He began pursuing documentary style photography while studying cinema in school. His earliest works in the field were studies of sex workers in Thailand and members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Paris.\n
Morvan devoted decades of his life to the documentation of life in conflict zones, and was a war correspondent for multiple international publications, including Newsweek. His work was collected in at least 20 books and has been exhibited in dozens of galleries, museums, and art festivals, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Rencontres de la photographie d\u2019Arles. He was a winner of the Robert-Capa Prize and two World Press Photo prizes for his war reporting.”,”html_fr”:”
The French artist photographer, photojournalist and author Yan Morvan died on September 20 at the age of 70. He is considered one of the most influential photographers of his generation.\n
Yan Morvan was born in Paris in 1954. He began practicing documentary photography while studying cinema. His first works in this area were studies of sex workers in Thailand and members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Paris.\n
Yan Morvan dedicated decades of his life to documenting life in conflict zones and served as war correspondent for several international publications, including Newsweek. His work has been collected in at least 20 books and has been exhibited in dozens of galleries, museums and art festivals, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Arles photography meetings. He won the Robert Capa Prize and two World Press Photo Awards for his war reporting.”,”html_zh”:null,”html_hk”:null,”authors”:[{“id”:”69ff13357fc0762228e418321287d834″,”name_en”:”Phillip Barcio”,”name_fr”:”Phillip Barcio”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}],”type_en”:”News”,”type_fr”:”News”,”type_zh”:null,”type_hk”:null,”type_id”:”70402dfefe971f43cddd748fbd7db514″,”city_en”:”Paris”,”city_fr”:”Paris”,”city_zh”:”\u5df4\u9ece”,”city_hk”:”\u5df4\u9ece”,”country_code”:”fr”,”tags”:[{“id”:”7634e519258ddbccc7072087eb07e3a8″,”name_en”:”obituary”,”name_fr”:”d\u00e9c\u00e8s”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”989e9e180379e041a99ccda66d488a87″,”name_en”:null,”name_fr”:”Yan Morvan”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”926fa535472c44b52e3fad9c683d9d3e”,”name_en”:”photography”,”name_fr”:”photographie”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}],”issues”:[],”publication”:”2024-09-27 18:00:00″,”edition”:null,”notification”:null,”removal”:null,”social”:null,”factiva”:null,”creation”:”2024-09-27 20:10:29″,”images”:[{“id”:”6b65669668c0bc114bd28fb11da49c8d”,”description_en”:”Yan Morvan”,”description_fr”:”Yan Morvan”,”description_zh”:null,”description_hk”:null,”copyrights_en”:”Photo Claude Truong-Ngoc”,”copyrights_fr”:”Photo Claude Truong-Ngoc”,”copyrights_zh”:null,”copyrights_hk”:null,”tags”:[{“id”:”a39be829e896eb7b5d4968d3373e193e”,”name_en”:”portrait”,”name_fr”:”portrait”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”769c096c17e5fd446425a7190bed9ac3″,”name_en”:”black & white”,”name_fr”:”noir et blanc”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}]},{“id”:”530ead3e69eed0d7432ec86496cade72″,”description_en”:”Black jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_fr”:”Black Jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_zh”:null,”description_hk”:null,”copyrights_en”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan”,”copyrights_fr”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan”,”copyrights_zh”:null, “copyrights_hk”:null,”tags”:[{“id”:”c8ad5543591df25b288c6feb8d46c4f5″,”name_en”:”photography”,”name_fr”:”photographie”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”769c096c17e5fd446425a7190bed9ac3″,”name_en”:”black & white”,”name_fr”:”noir et blanc”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”0bcfbdc4567e8b6686c8cefcab9403ad”,”name_en”:”motorbike”,”name_fr”:”moto”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}]},{“id”:”0659dff278d8c4f17edcab5607409139″,”description_en”:”Black jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_fr”:”Black jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_zh”:null,”description_hk”:null,”copyrights_en”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan. Courtesy Sit Down Gallery”,”copyrights_fr”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan. Courtesy Sitdown Gallery”,”copyrights_zh”:null,”copyrights_hk”:null,”tags”:[{“id”:”c8ad5543591df25b288c6feb8d46c4f5″,”name_en”:”photography”,”name_fr”:”photographie”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”769c096c17e5fd446425a7190bed9ac3″,”name_en”:”black & white”,”name_fr”:”noir et blanc”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”2a5665c19384a44f6a5faf2de4e7eaf0″,”name_en”:”table”,”name_fr”:”table”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}]},{“id”:”969b535018afade356d4f1c906ab3fbc”,”description_en”:”Black jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_fr”:”Black Jackets (1970), Yan Morvan”,”description_zh”:null,”description_hk”:null,”copyrights_en”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan”,”copyrights_fr”:”\u00a9 Yan Morvan”,”copyrights_zh”:null, “copyrights_hk”:null,”tags”:[{“id”:”9d892022c3d42ecebae8ee5d26a0cd3b”,”name_en”:null,”name_fr”:”Yan Morvan”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”c8ad5543591df25b288c6feb8d46c4f5″,”name_en”:”photography”,”name_fr”:”photographie”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”769c096c17e5fd446425a7190bed9ac3″,”name_en”:”black & white”,”name_fr”:”noir et blanc”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null},{“id”:”69b36290584962d985c2a83985db5054″,”name_en”:”crowd”,”name_fr”:”foule”,”name_zh”:null,”name_hk”:null}]}],”country_en”:”France”,”country_fr”:”France”,”country_zh”:null,”country_hk”:null}” loading=”false” lang=”fr”>
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