Camille Lepage
| Camille Lepage | |
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| Born |
January 28, 1988 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France |
| Died | May 12, 2014 (aged 26) Near Bouar, Central African Republic |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
Not to be confused with Camille Lepage, a Québécoise Civil servant murdered by former Canadian Forces corporal Denis Lortie during a shooting rampage at the National Assembly of Quebec in 1984
Camille Lepage (January 28, 1988 – May 12, 2014) was a French photojournalist who was killed during the conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014. Her death was described as a "murder" by the French presidency and it marked the first death of a Western journalist in the conflict.
After completing her secondary education in Collège Saint-Martin in Angers, Lepage went on to study journalism in Southampton Solent University, during which she completed an Erasmus year in Utrecht's University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.
She later specialized in photojournalism and worked independently in Africa, most notably in Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. After finishing her degree in Southampton, she moved and based herself in South Sudan's capital Juba in July 2012, a year and a half before arriving to Bangui (CAR's capital) where she spent the last few months of her life. She opened up about her interests in conflicts and photojournalism in an interview a year before her death, where she was asked about her top moments of her career to date and she responded, "Not sure I can talk about my 'career' just yet, I’m still just getting started! I find it amazing to be able to travel probably to some of the most remote areas, meet wonderful people everywhere and being able to document them." She was a well-known photojournalist and her work has been published in several news outlets, such as : New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur, La Croix, The Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, Al Jazeera and was widely used by BBC. She had also worked for several non-governmental organizations including : WFP, Enough Project, UNESCO, Internews, Crown Agents, Deloitte, Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières.
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