ZUM TOD DES BRITISCHEN FOTOJOURNALISTEN PAUL LOWE

Der am 6. November 1963 in London geborene britische Fotojournalist, Dozent und Autor Paul Lowe (Bild) ist am 12. Oktober 2024 in den San Gabriel Mountains (Kalifornien) gestorben. Er hatte 1999 den Vic Odden Award der Royal Photographic Society erhalten. Lowe wurde weltbekannt mit seinen Fotos zum Fall der Berliner Mauer, zur rumänischen Revolution, zur Freilassung Nelson Mandelas, zum Hunger in Afrika, zur Zerstörung von Grozny und ganz besonders zu den Jugoslawien-Kriegen. Paul Lowe hatte in Sarajevo und London gewohnt.

Bild: Paul Lowe – Foto: © https://www.instagram.com/paullowephotography/?hl=de

War reporter and lecturer

Paul Lowe, the conflict reporter who famously captured the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war before becoming an influential and much-loved lecturer and educator at the University of the Arts London, has died, aged 60.

News of his death sparked an outpouring of grief across all levels of the photography industry, with his students remembering an empathetic and committed teacher who believed deeply in their work. Peers from the photojournalism community remembered a man without ego who held a sincere belief in the humanist capacity of documentary photography.

Tom Seymour

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/10/16/paul-lowe-conflict-photographer-dies-son-murder

Son charged with murdering British war photographer Paul Lowe in California

Murder charge in Los Angeles against teenage son of acclaimed photojournalist, praised for ‘shining a spotlight on siege of Sarajevo’

A statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, read: “It is with deep sadness that we received the news of Professor Paul Lowe’s passing.

“Paul was a visiting professor in the department of war studies, a professor of photojournalism at the University of the Arts London, and an award-winning photojournalist with VII Academy. A friend, colleague and collaborator whose work had a huge impact in shining a spotlight on the siege of Sarajevo and addressing its legacy, we were privileged to work with him on several projects related to art and reconciliation.

“His boundless energy, warmth, creativity, initiative and enthusiasm were contagious and uniquely inspiring. He will be deeply missed.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/16/paul-lowe-death-stabbing-california-san-gabriel-mountains-hiking-trail-war-photographer-ntwnfb

Paul Lowe obituary

As was the case for many of the journalists of his generation who covered the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the life and career of the award-winning photographer Paul Lowe was defined by the conflict.

In 1992 he travelled to Sarajevo to document the horror in a city besieged by Bosnian Serb forces whose population was cut off from the world, being pounded with artillery and picked off by snipers. He fell in love with the place, the people and his future wife, and never really left.

Kim Willsher

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/28/paul-lowe-obituary

Award-winning war photographer ‘stabbed to death’ on LA walking trail

Dr Paul Lowe, 61, dies from stab wound to the neck as 19-year-old son arrested on suspicion of murder.

Susie Coen

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/10/15/war-photographer-paul-lowe-stabbed-to-death-la/

War photographer Paul Lowe allegedly killed by son ‘was courageous and beloved’

His 19-year-old son Emir has been charged with one count of murder and is set to make his first court appearance later on Wednesday in California.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/war-photographer-paul-lowe-allegedly-killed-by-son-was-courageous-and-beloved-KSFMEFUK2JOFRA3YRNFB6DIJ6E/

Paul Lowe, Award-Winning British Photojournalist, Dies at 60

Paul Lowe, an award-winning British photojournalist who captured the horror of war during the fall of the former Yugoslavia in a career that spanned decades and continents, was killed on Saturday in a stabbing near Los Angeles. He was 60.

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department said in a statement on Tuesday that the county district attorney’s office filed one count of murder against Mr. Lowe’s 19-year-old son, Emir Abadzic Lowe, in the death, in the San Gabriel Mountains.

John Yoon, Claire Moses

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/paul-lowe-dead.html

Tributes Paid to Photojournalist Paul Lowe, Chronicler of Sarajevo’s Siege

Paul Lowe, a respected British photojournalist who covered major world events including the wars in the former Yugoslavia and worked for years in the Bosnian capital, has died at the age of 61.

Nejra Mulaomerovic

https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/15/tributes-paid-to-photojournalist-paul-lowe-chronicler-of-sarajevos-siege/

Die bosnische Tragödie hört nicht auf

Paul Lowe porträtierte Täter, Opfer, Alltag im Krieg. Seine Bilder von der «Sniper Alley» in Sarajevo gingen um die Welt. Nun wurde er selbst getötet.

Doris Akrap

https://taz.de/Zum-Tod-von-Kriegsfotograf-Paul-Lowe/!6041038

Paul Lowe dokumentierte die Tragödien unserer Welt – nun wurde er selbst getötet

Der Brite hielt den Mauerfall oder die Belagerung von Sarajevo mit der Kamera fest. Kürzlich ist er erstochen worden. Tatverdächtig: sein Sohn. (…)

Die Nachricht von seinem Tod löste tiefe Bestürzung bei vielen Menschen in Sarajevo aus. Für sie ist Paul Lowe ein Held und Chronist der dunkelsten Stunden der Stadtgeschichte. Zu seinem Gedenken eröffneten die Behörden nun erneut seine Ausstellung über die Belagerung der bosnischen Hauptstadt.

Enver Robelli

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/paul-lowe-zeigte-die-kriege-der-welt-nun-wurde-er-selbst-getoetet-871626308314

Video:

«Testimonies of Light: Photography, Witnessing and History» by Dr Paul Lowe

Mehr:

https://www.instagram.com/paullowephotography/?hl=de

https://www.facebook.com/paul.lowe.9674

https://www.panos.co.uk/photographer/paul-lowe

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/paul-lowe

https://www.penguin.de/autoren/paul-lowe/597335

http://image-matters-discourse.de/experts/dr-paul-lowe/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/03/a-girl-plays-in-the-street-during-siege-sarajevo-paul-lowe-best-photograph

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/how-photography-became-the-dominant-form-of-recording-the-world/2019/01/17/ff32657c-1825-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lowe_(photographer)

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