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Lucas Dolega

French/German photojournalist

Summary

French/German photojournalist

Field	Value
name	Lucas Dolega
birth_name	Loucas von Zabiensky-Mebrouk
birth_date
birth_place	Paris, France
death_date
death_place	Tunis, Tunisia
death_cause	Tear gas canister
employer	European Pressphoto Agency
occupation	Photojournalist
alias	Lucas Mebrouk Dolega
nationality	French and German
years_active	2006–2011

Lucas Dolega (19 August 1978 – 17 January 2011), born Loucas von Zabiensky-Mebrouk and also called Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, was a French/German photojournalist. He was reportedly killed by Tunisian police while he was photographing a protest in Tunis. As reported in The Guardian (UK), Dolega was the first journalist killed during the 2010-2011 Tunisian protests, according to Reporters Without Borders. He was also the first journalist to die while on assignment during the Arab Spring uprisings.

He was fatally injured on the same day that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia for exile.

Personal information

Dolega was born in Paris on 19 August 1978 to a German mother and a French father, a journalist and a doctor respectively. He grew up in Paris, before moving to Tangier in Morocco. He had French and German citizenship, and started work as a photographer for European Pressphoto Agency in April 2006. He was based in Paris, covered a variety of stories in Europe, and in 2008 photographed the Congo.

Dolega was 32 years old when he died.

Death

On 14 January 2011, the day after Dolega arrived in Tunis, and at the end of a demonstration on Avenue Bourguiba, he was within a group of journalists at the corner of rue Gandhi and rue de Marseille. He was hit in the head by a tear gas canister, about 20 cm long and 5 cm diameter, reportedly fired by police at short range and horizontally toward a group of photographers. He was taken first to a clinic and then to Tunis Rabta Neurologic Hospital where he was operated on but died on 17 January. Fellow photographer and friend Olivier Laban-Mattei brought Dolega's corpse back to France.

Impact

Dolega was the first of a number of journalists who were killed over the course of the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. He was killed while on assignment. He is among a group of photojournalists who were killed while covering protests, such as Hiro Muramoto, cameraman and journalist shot by a soldier in Bangkok, 2010; or Kenji Nagai, a photojournalist who was shot by a soldier in Rangoon, 2007.

Legacy

The Lucas Dolega Award (Prix Lucas Dolega) was established in 2011 to honor photojournalists who have reported under difficult circumstances.

In popular culture

Lucas Dolega is mentioned in the poem "A Love Letter from Emilie Blachère to Rémi Ochlik", written by Paris Match journalist Emilie Blachère on the occasion of the first anniversary of Rémi Ochlik's death. She writes: "My angel, give Lucas a kiss for me. Take care of yourself. Take care of us." Rémi Ochlik was a friend and colleague of Lucas Dolega, he was with Dolega when Dolega died, and he worked on establishing an award in Dolega's honor after his friend's death.

Notes

References

(2011-01-16). "French photographer dies after being hit by police teargas canister in Tunisia". The Guardian.
(2011-01-17). "Lucas Mebrouk Dolega". Committee to Protect Journalists.
(2011-01-18). "French photographer dies from injury sustained on day of Ben Ali's departure". Reporters without Borders.
"[http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/01/16/97001-20110116FILWWW00194-tunisie-le-photographe-francais-vivant.php Tunisie: le photographe français vivant]", AFP story, ''Le Figaro,'' 16 January 2011. {{in lang
Olivier Laurent, "[http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1937417/french-photographer-dies-tunisia UNESCO, French government call for investigation of Lucas Dolega's death [update 7]] {{webarchive. link. (2011-01-19 ", ''British Journal of Photography,'' 16 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.)
"[http://www.epa.eu/en/article/1711897.html Remembering Lucas Dolega]", European Pressphoto Agency, 17 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20110122080744/http://af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAFLDE70G25R20110117 French photographer hurt in Tunisia protests dies]", Reuters, 17 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.
David Walker, "[http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/news/Photographer-Dies-of-1505.shtml Photographer dies of injuries in Tunis]", ''Photo District News,'' 18 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.
Matthias Bruggmann, et al., "[http://www.visapourlimage.com/news/4967.do Lucas Mebrouk Dolega] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-17 ", Visa pour l'image, 18 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.)
Michel Puech, "[http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/lucas-dolega-succumbs-to-a-hand-grenade Lucas Dolega succumbs to a hand grenade] {{webarchive. link. (2011-01-21 ", ''La Lettre de la photographie,'' 22 January 2011. Accessed 22 January 2011.)
Reporters Without Borders. "First edition of the Lucas Dolega Award." 18 October 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2011 [http://en.rsf.org/first-edition-of-the-lucas-dolega-18-10-2011,41228.html RSF] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-10-30)
Blachère, Emilie. (2013-03-04). "A love letter from Emilie Blachère to Rémi Ochlik". Le journal de la photographie.
Marsden, Sam. (2013-03-03). "Choked BBC presenter falls silent after hearing love letter to photographer killed in Syria". The Telegraph (UK).
MacDonald, Kerri. (2013-02-22). "Parting glance: Rémi Ochlik". New York Times.

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