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Youssef Boudlal receives the Reuters 2014 best photography award in New York

Thursday, 12 March 2015

The Reuters news agency based in New York has granted the Award for Best photography to Youssef Boudlal.

This Moroccan photographer who travels the world to capture the best clichés works for the Paris branch of the Reuters news agency.

The picture awarded was taken last summer of a Yezidi girl 6 –year old girl who had fled with her family the Iraqi town of Sinjar to avoid the fierce repression of terrorist group DAECH.

Youssef Boudlal reveals how he came up with the idea of taking this photo: "I was fascinated by her wild beauty contrasting with the terrible situation she was living in. There was a kind of distress and sadness in her eyes. I knew she was six because I had asked her mother. Unfortunately I did not ask for her name. "

Youssef Boudlal was handed the best photograph award by the director of the New York office of Reuters.

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