Erik Refner
Erik Refner | |
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| Born | 14 January 1971(age53) Copenhagen |
| Alma mater | Danish School of Media and Journalism |
| Awards | World Press Photo of the Year2002 Cavling Prize2009 |
Erik Refner(born 14 January 1971) is a Danish photographer and former pentathlete, soldier, and model.
He is best known for winning theWorld Press Photo of the Yearaward in 2002 as a student. He also won theCavling Prizein 2009.
Early life[edit]
Refner was born on the 14th January 1971 in Copenhagen and grew up in the north of the city.[1][2]As a teenager he travelled internationally, including living for three months in an Israelikibbutz.[2]
Adult life[edit]
In the 1990s, Refner was a sergeant in theRoyal Danish armyafter which he spent one year as part of the Danish pentathlon team.[1][3]He then worked as a model for seven years, before switching to photography after one of the photographers he was working with needed an assistant.[1][4]
He won theWorld Press Photo of the Yearin 2002, while studying at theDanish School of Media and Journalism,which he attended from 1998 to 2002.[5]His winning photograph was of the burial of a young Afghan boy in Pakistan, whose family had fled toJalozaito escape violence in their home country.[5][6]
His early work was focussed on photography in conflict zones and took him to Afghanistan, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine, and Iraq.[5]He worked at theBerlingskenewspaper for eleven years, and did commercial photography forCanon,Coca Cola,Maerskand Nike.[5][1]He has been published inElle, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Phaidon, The New York Times,andMarie Claire.[5]He won theCavling Prizein 2009.[5]
In 2015, he founded theIDIP.Agencyto help photographers obtain payment for copyright infringements.[5]
References[edit]
- ^abcd"Five Celebrated Sports Photographers to Inspire You Click Better".Demilked.2016-11-15.Retrieved2022-05-08.
- ^abHeidenfeld, Jesse (2012-04-11)."Erik Refner".jesseheidenfeld.Retrieved2022-05-08.
- ^Kock Roberto,Photobox: Bringing the Great Photographers Into Focus.(2009). United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson. p470
- ^Abbasi, Jibran (2017-05-13)."Bunia Ethnic Violence by Erik Refner".Brecorder.Retrieved2022-05-08.
- ^abcdefg"Erik Refner | World Press Photo".worldpressphoto.org.Retrieved2022-05-08.
- ^"Las fotografías de aquel 11 de septiembre".El País(in Spanish). 2011-09-10.ISSN1134-6582.Retrieved2022-05-08.
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