Murad Sezer (born 1969) is a Turkish photographer.

Life and work

Sezer was born in

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and moved to

Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ...

as a child. Sezer has a journalism B.A. from Istanbul University. He built a career as a sports photographer in the Turkish media 10 years before he joined

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in 1996. He was part of Associated Press team that have won the

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in 2005 with his photo of

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praying over a Marine killed while fighting insurgent strongholds in Fallujah (other people from the team were Bilal Hussein, Karim Kadim, Brennan Linsley, Jim MacMillan, Samir Mizban,

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, John B. Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Anja Niedringhaus and Mohammed Uraibi). In April 2009 he joined

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as chief photographer for Turkey.

References

LightStalkers

Pulitzer Prize
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