Frédéric LAFARGUE
Nice, France
Born in Bordeaux, France, Frédéric Lafargue covered many of the major news events of the Middle East in the last 15 years for Gamma photo agency, and recently as freelancer. He won recognition as a war photographer with his extensive coverage of the second Palestinian Intifada, the American invasion of Iraq and the following insurgency, the Hamas movement in the Gaza strip, the 33 day war in Lebanon, the Hizbollah movement, Ahmadinejad’s rise to power in Iran, the Egyptian and Libyan revolutions, among many others. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, New York Times, Life, Paris Match, Le Monde, GEO, Spiegel, Stern, the Guardian, Il Correre de la Serra, El Mundo, El Pais and many more, he has been distinguished by Days Japan, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, PDN Photo Annual, Art Director’s Club, International Festival of Angers, Visa pour l’Image, and the Bayeux war correspondent awards. As a member of the french defense journalists association Frédéric is trained for the coverage of conflict zones by the french legion. As D.O.P he’s recently been shooting a full length documentary in Tehran about awarded iranian film maker Asghar Farhadi for ARTE Channel.Though, still shooting photo assignments he’s been covering the 2013 french military intervention in Mali as well as the crisis in Central African Republic in 2014 or the kurdish resistance during the ISIS siege, inside Kobani in 2015.
Since a few years Frédéric is involved in photojournalism workshops like at the African Union siege in Addis Ababa.
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Medical
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- RISC training
- Still life
- Video capture