Alixandra Fazzina

Alixandra Fazzina (born 1974) is a British photojournalist.[1] Her first book is A Million Shillings – Escape from Somalia. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society. In 2010 she won the UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award for her work documenting the effect of war on uprooted people. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet.

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,[2] and in 1995, before she graduated, was appointed as an official war artist in Bosnia. While there she developed her interest in photography. After Bosnia she spent much of the next seven years working in Africa, including Sierra Leone; she photographed the Lord's Resistance Army and their victims in Uganda, the Miya-Miya rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and people-smuggling from Ethiopia and Somalia to the Yemen and Saudi Arabia.[3] In 2008 Fazzina worked on an assignment for Oxfam on maternal death in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the worst place in the world for a woman to give birth—there being 6,500 deaths for every 100,000 births.[2] She then based herself in Pakistan.[1]

In 2010 she published A Million Shillings – Escape from Somalia.[4][5] 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.[1]

Her project Flowers of Afghanistan documents the hardships faced by young refugees making the journey from Afghanistan to Europe, at various stops along their way.[6][7]

Publications
  • A Million Shillings – Escape from Somalia. London: Trolley, 2010. ISBN 978-1904563846. With an introduction by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres.
    • Arabic-language edition, 2011.

Awards
gollark: If you require everyone/a majority to say "yes, let us make the thing" publicly, then you probably won't get any of the thing - if you say "yes, let us make the thing" then someone will probably go "wow, you are a bad/shameful person for supporting the thing".
gollark: Say most/many people like a thing, but the unfathomable mechanisms of culture™ have decided that it's bad/shameful/whatever. In our society, as long as it isn't something which a plurality of people *really* dislike, you can probably get it anyway since you don't need everyone's buy-in. And over time the thing might become more widely accepted by unfathomable mechanisms of culture™.
gollark: I also think that if you decide what to produce via social things instead of the current financial mechanisms, you would probably have less innovation (if you have a cool new thing™, you have to convince a lot of people it's a good idea, rather than just convincing a few specialized people that it's good enough to get some investment) and could get stuck in weird signalling loops.
gollark: So it's possible to be somewhat insulated from whatever bizarre trends are sweeping things.
gollark: In a capitalistic system, people don't have to like me as long as I can throw money at them, see.

References
  1. Foreman, Jonathan (13 September 2010). "Alixandra Fazzina: Witness to the devastation". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. Cain, Sian (20 May 2015). "Alixandra Fazzina's best photograph: a mother breastfeeding in Afghanistan". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  3. "Talent issue - the photographer: Alixandra Fazzina". The Independent. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  4. O'Hagan, Sean (11 September 2010). "A Million Shillings: Escape From Somalia by Alixandra Fazzina". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 12 December 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  5. Iqbal, Nosheen (16 October 2010). "Photographing the forgotten aspects of war". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 12 December 2019 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  6. Rothman, Lily. "Alixandra Fazzina Photographs the Flight of the 'Flowers of Afghanistan'". Time. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  7. "Traveling boys are 'the flowers of Afghanistan'". Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  8. "Vic Odden". Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  9. "British photojournalist wins 2010 Nansen Refugee Award". UNHCR. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  10. "Alixandra Fazzina". Portfolios: Disorder. Prix Pictet. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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