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Nansen refugee award winner alixandra fazzina
Alixandra Fazzina (born 1974) is a British photojournalist. She won the UNHCR's 2010 Nansen Refugee Award for her work documenting the effect of war on uprooted people, and was sortlisted for the 2015 Prix Pictet.
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- Nansen refugee award winner alixandra fazzina
- Bbc with alixandra fazzina unhcr s 2010 nansen refugee award winner
- Life and work
- Publication by Fazzina
- Award
- References
Bbc with alixandra fazzina unhcr s 2010 nansen refugee award winner
Life and work
Fazzina was born in East London but spent much of her childhood in the Netherlands because of her father's employment. She studied fine art at the University of Bristol, and in 1995, before she graduated, was appointed as an official war artist in Bosnia. While there she developed her interest in photography, and spent much of the next seven years working in Africa. In 2008 she had an assignment in Afghanistan and then decided to base herself in Pakistan.
In 2008 she published A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia. The title reflects the fare paid (about 50 pounds sterling) by refugees fleeing from Somalia and Ethiopia to get from Mogadishu to the coast of the Gulf of Aden and across to Yemen or Saudi Arabia.
Publication by Fazzina
Award
