Jan A. Grarup, born 1968
Denmark

During the last 16 years, Jan Grarup has travelled the world documenting many of defining moments of history. From the fall of the communist regime in Romania to the current occupation of Iraq, he has covered war, conflict and genocide.

He has documented daily life for both sides of the Intifada with his stories “the boys of Ramallah” and “ the boys of Hebron”.

In his ongoing series “forgotten refugees of the world”, he has focused on the suffering of civilians in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chechnya, Ingushetia and actually from Chad.

Through the years, Grarup has won numerous awards for his work including four awards from World Press Photo and a jury special recognition in Leica’s Oskar Barnack Award.

He has twice been a finalist in the W. Eugen Smith memorial fund for humanistic photography and has won “UNICEF Photo of the Year” Award now twice.

He has been a finalist at Visa D’OR and exhibited at VISA POUR L’IMAGE in Perpignan, France.

In Denmark Grarup has been three times “photographer of the year”, and earned four “picture of the year” and four “news picture story of the year” awards.

Jan Grarup works as a staff-photographer at the Danish newspaper Politiken and is published regularly in magazines around the world, including Newsweek, Stern, Sunday Times Magazine and L’Express. He is represented by Rapho Agence in Paris.

He lives in Holbaek, Denmark, with his wife and three kids.