Lucas Dolega was reportedly killed by Tunisian police while he was photographing a protest in Tunis.
13 Facts About Lucas Dolega
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Lucas Dolega was the first journalist to die while on assignment during the Arab Spring uprisings.
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Lucas Dolega was fatally injured on the same day that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia for exile.
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Lucas Dolega was born in Paris on 19 August 1978 to a German mother and a French father, a journalist and a doctor respectively.
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Lucas Dolega grew up in Paris, before moving to Tangier in Morocco.
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Lucas Dolega had French and German citizenship, and started work as a photographer for European Pressphoto Agency in April 2006.
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Lucas Dolega was based in Paris, covered a variety of stories in Europe, and in 2008 photographed the Congo.
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On 14 January 2011, the day after Lucas 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.
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Lucas Dolega was the first of a number of journalists who were killed over the course of the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011.
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Lucas Dolega 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.
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The Lucas Dolega Award was established in 2011 to honor photojournalists who have reported under difficult circumstances.
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Lucas Dolega is mentioned in the poem "A Love Letter from Emilie Blachere to Remi Ochlik", written by Paris Match journalist Emilie Blachere on the occasion of the first anniversary of Remi Ochlik's death.
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Remi 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.