Alexandra Boulet Dies

Alexandra was one of the most creative photographers of her genre. RIP Alexandra.

Alexandra Boulat, an award-winning photographer known for a clear, descriptive style and a knack for making emotionally moving, often idiosyncratic images of people affected by war, died yesterday in Paris. She was 45.

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Ms. Boulat often focused on the displaced: above, an Afghan family in 2001 with the body of a boy who died in a refugee camp.

She died after suffering a brain aneurysm in June and falling into a coma from which she never emerged, her friend Gary Knight said.