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Jan Grarup
Grarup in Aarhus, 2017
Born (1968-12-02) 2 December 1968 (age 56)
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1992–present
Websitejangrarup.photoshelter.com

Jan Grarup (born 1968) is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography. He has won many prizes including the World Press Photo award for his coverage of the war in Kosovo.[1]

Early life

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Grarup was born in Kvistgaard, not far from Helsingør, in the north of the Danish island of Sjælland. He got his first camera when he was 13 and began to develop black and white photographs. At the age of 15 he took a photograph of a traffic accident and sent it in to the local newspaper Helsingør Dagblad where it was published. When he was 17, he spent his Easter holidays in Belfast at the time of the troubles, gaining an appetite for conflicts.[2]

After studying journalism and photography at the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus from 1989 to 1991, he became first a trainee, then a full-time photographer with the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet.[3]

Career

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In 1991, the year he graduated, Grarup won the Danish Press Photographer of the Year award, a prize he would receive on several further occasions.[4] In 1993, he moved to Berlin for a year, working as a freelance photographer for Danish newspapers and magazines.

During his career, Grarup has covered many wars and conflicts around the world including the Gulf War, the Rwandan genocide, the Siege of Sarajevo and the Palestinian uprising against Israel in 2000. His coverage of the conflict between Palestine and Israel gave rise to two series: The Boys of Ramallah, which also earned him the Pictures of the Year International World Understanding Award in 2002, followed by The Boys from Hebron.[3]

His book, Shadowland (2006), presents his work during the 12 years he spent in Kashmir, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Rwanda, Kosovo, Slovakia, Ramallah, Hebron, Iraq, Iran, and Darfur. In the words of Foto8's review, it is "intensely personal, deeply felt, and immaculately composed."[5] His second book, Darfur: A Silent Genocide, was published in 2009.

Per Folkver, Picture Editor in Chief of the Copenhagen daily Politiken, where Grarup has worked, has said of Grarup that "He is concerned about what he is seeing and doing longer stories and returning to the same places."[5]

After leaving his post at Politiken in the autumn of 2009, he joined the small Danish photographic firm Das Büro in January 2010 where he concentrated on the national market. He continues his international work with NOOR photo agency in Amsterdam, of which he is a cofounder.[6]

Recent photographs include those of the earthquake in Haiti taken for Time and Dagbladet Information.[7] In late 2011, Garup covered the refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.[8]

In September 2023 Grarup was fired by his newspaper Politken after he admitted lying about his experiences covering the war in Ukraine.[9] Subsequent stories in Danish media cast further doubt on the integrity of his work in Ukraine,[10].”|website=Pov.International|date=18 September 2023|access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref> and Palestine.

Later in September 2023 the radiostation 24syv uncovered that it is not only the Ukraine trip where crucial details and facts have been embellished. The journalists Mille Ørsted and Niels Frederik Rickers [11]revealed with compelling facts that an essay "Turist i mit eget mareridt"[12] in Politiken, which Jan Grarup wrote on 7 April 2019 the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, is fraught with contradictions and contradictory claims about central details. Furthermore the two journalists casts doubt on whether Grarup was even in Rwanda at the time he claims, and whether very strong and gory details about two children he claims to have met are accurately reproduced or may be wholly or partially invented.

In late September Politiken decided to launch an investigation into Jan Grarup's work for the newspaper after numerous of news stories with serious alligations.

In October 2023 Mayday Press published a 82 page report about Jan Grarups work in Rwanda during and after the genocide. One of many lies the report documents, is the amount of time Grarup spend in the country. According to himself, he was there for seven weeks, but the compelling evidence puts Jan Grarup in Rwanda during the genocide for only max 36 hours.[13]

November 10 Grarups former employer Politiken published their findings regarding Grarups work for the paper in the period 2009 to 2023. The report confirms the public alligations.[14]

Publications

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  • Jan Grarup (2006). Shadowland'. Politiken. ISBN 978-87-567-7763-6.
  • Jan Grarup (2009). Darfur: A Silent Genocide. Trolley Books. ISBN 978-1-904563-66-2.
  • Jan Grarup (2009). Attack on Gaza. Trolley Books. ISBN 978-1-907112-00-3.
  • Jan Grarup (2013). Mærket for Livet. Gyldendal. ISBN 978-8-702144-43-7.
  • Jan Grarup (2013). Marked for Life. Gyldendal. ISBN 978-8-702159-29-5.
  • Jan Grarup (2016). Rejser i Danmark. [Gyldendal. ISBN 978-8-792725-58-5.
  • Jan Grarup (2017). And Then There Was Silence. Book Lab.
  • Jan Grarup (2018). Hvor jernkorsene gror - En krigsfotografs erindringer. Gyldendal. ISBN 978-8-702159-92-9.

Awards

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  • 1991: Picture of the year, Denmark. 1st. prize – Photographer of the year[4]
  • 1995: Picture of the year, Denmark. 1st. prize – Photographer of the year[4]
  • 2000: Picture of the year, Denmark. 1st. prize – Photographer of the year[4]
  • 2001: World Press Photo – 1st. prize, People in the news – stories[15]
  • 2001: UNICEF – Children photo of the Year. Jury's Special Award.[16]
  • 2001: Visa pour l'Image – VISA D`Or – Finalist.[17]
  • 2002: World Press Photo – 1st. prize, People in the news – stories[18]
  • 2002: Pictures of the Year International World Understanding Award[19]
  • 2002: Finalist, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, New York.[20]
  • 2002: UNICEF Children photo of the year award. 1st. Prize[21]
  • 2003: Picture of the year, Denmark.[4]
  • 2003: Feature Story of the Year, Denmark.[4]
  • 2004: Picture of the year, Denmark. 1st. prize – Photographer of the year[4]
  • 2005: Visa d'or.[22]
  • 2008: Picture of the year, Denmark. 1st. prize – Photographer of the year[4]
  • 2011: Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner.[23]
  • 2013: I Shot It, 1st prize, Black and White 2nd Quarter 2012.[24]
  • 2013: World Press Photo, 1st prize stories, Sports Feature.[25]
  • 2022: Sony World Photography Awards 2022, 1st prize Documentary Projects.[26]

References

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  1. ^ "1999, Jan Grarup, 1st prize, People in the News stories", World Press Photo. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Jan Grarup", Politiken. (in Danish) Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Jan Grarup – Biography", War Photo Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jan Grarup" Presse Fotograf Forbundet Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. (in Danish) Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Foto8 Reviews: Shadowland", 2006.. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  6. ^ "Das Büro ansætter Jan Grarup", Journalisten.dk. (in Danish) Retrieved 2 March 2010
  7. ^ "Jan Grarup i Haiti (del 2)". Information.dk. (in Danish) Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  8. ^ David W. Dunlap, "Lens: Jan Grarup" Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Efter urigtige oplysninger: Politiken stopper Ukraine-samarbejde med kendt krigsfotograf". Politken. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  10. ^ Villemoes, Søren K. (11 September 2023). "Løsgående missil". Weekendavisen. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  11. ^ Ørsted, Niels Frederik Rickers; Mille (19 September 2023). "For Jan Grarup har folkemordet i Rwanda altid haft en særlig betydning. Nye oplysninger sår tvivl om hele fortællingen". Berlingske.dk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Jan Grarups essay om Rwanda: Turist i mit eget mareridt". Politiken. 2 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Mayday Press - forlaget". Mayday Press - forlaget.
  14. ^ "Tidligere graverchef har undersøgt Jan Grarups arbejde. Her er resultatet". Politiken. 10 November 2023.
  15. ^ 2001, "Jan Grarup, 1st prize, People in the News stories", World Press Photo. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  16. ^ "UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001". Archived 23 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  17. ^ "Visa pour l'image, history 2001". Archived 10 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  18. ^ "1999, Jan Grarup, 1st prize, People in the News stories", World Press Photo. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  19. ^ 59th POY "World Understanding Award". Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  20. ^ "Trent Parke Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant". Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  21. ^ "UNICEF Photo of the Year 2002". Archived 12 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  22. ^ "Visa pour l'image awards". Archived 23 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  23. ^ "Jan Grarup: Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner 2011", The Leica Camera Blog. Accessed 24 May 2014.
  24. ^ " I SHOT IT, 1st prize, Black and White 2nd Quarter 2012, Jan Grarup"
  25. ^ ""World Press Photo, 1st prize stories, Sports Feature, Jan Grarup."".[permanent dead link‍]
  26. ^ "Jan Grarup udnævnt som vinder ved Sony World Photography Awards 2022". Sony (in Danish). 12 April 2022. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

See also

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