Pierre Terdjman is a 35 year old French photojournalist. He began his career on the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. In 2007, he returned to France to join the team of photographers at Gamma agency. Since then he has covered the post-election violences in Kenya, the Russian-Georgian conflict, Afghanistan (where he spent a year following a French unit, and Haiti after the earthquake.
More recently, he photographed the Arab Spring, covering both the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt and the struggle for liberation against Gaddafi in Libya. He is also regularly in Israel, where it attaches to document the fall of the Israeli dream in a long term project called “La La Land”.
In 2012, he won a scholarship Photoreporter Festival of Saint-Brieuc to continue his work in the long term.
In 2013 he covered the uprising of violences in Central africa for the french magazine Paris Match.
earlier this year, he won the lens culture Award for a picture form his work in central African Republic
His photographs are regularly published in Paris Match, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. His work on Haiti was presented by the Ministry of Culture in a joint exhibition with Jérôme Sessini, and photographs of the Arab Spring have been exhibited at the festival in Tbilisi. In 2011, he exhibited at Visa pour l'image. In 2012, a retrospective exhibition held at the Parisian gallery Sophie Rozenberg a resounding success.in 2014 he exhibited his work from the Central African Republic in Visa pour l’image.He is currently working on ecology in France, a project for which he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture.
Pierre Terdjman is the co founder of the #dysturb project
