Bülent Kılıç

In the early 2000s he was a journalist for the local Turkish press, later specializing as a photographer.[1] He began to work as a freelance journalist for AFP around 2003.[2][3] In the Ukraine, he covered the Ukrainian revolution[4] the search for survivors of the Malaysia airlines plane crash and the refugees fleeing the clashes between the pro Russian militias and the Ukrainian military.[4] In Turkey he covered the Soma coal mine desaster,[4] the aftermath of the funeral of Berkin Elvan,[4] and the Kurdish Peshmerga passing through Sanliurfa as they were on their way to defend Kobanî in Syria from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[4] During the annual Pride parade in Istanbul in 2021, he was shortly detained.[5]

He is married and the father of child.[3]

• 2014 Exhibition Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan.[1]
• 2014 Guardian photographer of the year.[4]
• 2014 Time Wire Photographer of the year.[6]
• 2015 1st in the section Spot News at the World Press Photo of the Year awards for his photograph of a wounded girl surrounded by Turkish police in the aftermath of the funeral of Berkin Evan[7] and also the 3rd prize for his photograph documenting air strikes on militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[2]
• 2015 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs documenting the flight of the Kurds from the ISIL.[8]