Rémi Ochlik

Who they were

Biography Rémi Ochlik was born in 1983 in Thionville and lived in the area around Florange , Moselle , in the Lorraine region of northeastern France. [ 1 ] As a child he had ambitions of becoming an archaeologist, but after he was given an Olympus OM1 camera by his grandfather, Ochlik gravitated toward his interest in photography. [ 2 ] After completing school at Marcel-Pagnol in Serémange-Erzange and private high school of Saint-Pierre Chanel in Thionville,

Rémi Ochlik was a French photojournalist who was known for his photographs of war and conflict in Haiti and the Arab Spring revolutions. Ochlik died in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs during the Syrian uprising along with veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin. In 2025, the French government issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and other high ranking Ba’athist Syrian officials.

Path and career

Career Rémi Ochlik began working for photography agency Wostok in September 2002 where he initially began photographing demonstrations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After leaving Wostok in 2005, Ochlik founded the Parisian photographic agency, IP3 Press, and for the first time was able to get a French press card. [ 2 ] For IP3, Ochlik covered the French presidential campaign of 2007, photographing François Bayrou , Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy amongst others. [ 2 ]

Why this date

Rémi Ochlik appears on our February 22 calendar for 2012 as a death entry.