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Hélène Caux

Refugee woman in Iridimi camp, Eastern Chad. She and her family escaped their village in Darfur following attacks by armed militia. May 15, 2004
© Hélène Caux

Hélène Caux is an independent photojournalist based in New York City since 1994. Born in Amiens, France, she earned a master's degree in American history from Sorbonne University and an advanced degree in journalism from Institut Pratique de Journalisme in Paris. She is currently working on two long-term photography projects: one on cross-dressing and gender representations in New York, the other on refugees in the United States.

Caux has combined humanitarian aid work and photography for the past nine years, traveling for UN agencies to West Africa and the Balkans. In Kosovo, she collaborated with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to produce two photo books. One, A Journey Home, depicts the exodus of Kosovo Albanians to Macedonia and Albania in 1998-99 as well as the daily lives of minority Serbs and Roma after the war. The other, Kosovar Women, is a collection of images about the role of women in rebuilding a peaceful and multiethnic society in Kosovo.

Caux's photographs have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, New Scientist, Amnesty International Press Sweden, Médecins Sans Frontières Kosovo reports, La Vie, and on the UN and UNHCR Web sites. Her work on refugees and women has been exhibited in several galleries in Kosovo. Caux's project "The Freedom of Movement Train: A Multiethnic Kosovo/a Journey" was featured in the Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 8 exhibit.

Caux first went to eastern Chad at the end of 2003 as an aid worker with UNHCR. She was part of the workforce that established the first refugee camp in Chad in mid-January 2004.

For more information about Caux's work in Sudan, visit National Geographic's online photo essay of her work, Surviving Darfur: African Refugee Life:
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