About
Alexander Durie is a British-French multimedia journalist, writer, poet, and photographer of Vietnamese, Italian, Canadian, and Swedish origin.
He has worked for leading international news organisations including The Guardian, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Economist, Reuters, The Independent, Rolling Stone, ARTE, Variety, The New Arab, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Internazionale, The British Journal of Photography, Huck Magazine, The Calvert Journal, The Daily Star Lebanon, and more.
He covers stories on and at the intersection of human rights, culture, memory, and marginalised communities.
His varied interests reflect his multicultural heritage and upbringing. They include: migration issues and the effects of exile and displacement, world cinema, music, and literature, social justice and decolonial movements, memory culture, radicalisation and extremism, alternative traveling, women’s rights, European politics, the Levant region (especially Lebanon and Palestine), football, and mental health.
Alex has both on-the-ground and newsroom experience and is passionate about merging new multimedia tools for storytelling and investigative purposes. He has interviewed major figures in culture and politics, including one of the first female imams in Europe, the French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, one of the organisers of the 2019 Sudan Uprising, and the leader of the largest far-right youth movement in France.
He holds a Joint Master’s in Journalism & International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, where he majored in Human Rights and Migration Studies. Before then, he read Comparative Literature & Film Studies at King’s College London, and undertook exchange programmes at Freie Universität Berlin and The University of Sydney.
Alex is fully bilingual in English and French, speaks intermediate Spanish, basic Italian and German, and is learning Arabic.
He usually doesn’t refer to himself in the third person.
Awards & Exhibitions
2022 - Presentation of a long-term documentary photo project, Verano Mediterráneo, at the international photo festival ‘Face à la Mer’ in Tangier, Morocco
2021 - Two photos selected for the community exhibition ‘Analog: The Chemistry of Feeling,’ Gulf Photo Plus: Dubai’s Centre for Photography, Dubai, UAE
2020 - Single photo taken during lockdown selected for the group exhibition ‘Postcards from Quarantine,’ The Old Vault Gallery, London, UK
2019 - MediaLab Campus grantee, awarded to 15 top journalism students in France who plan to intern in the MENA region.
2018 - Single protest photo nominated for Kujaja’s World Street Photography photobook
2017 - Photo-documentary project on the Calais ‘Jungle’ exhibited at:
Migration Museum, London, UK
Migration Hub Network, Berlin, Germany
2017 - Single double-exposed photo exhibited at The London Photo Festival, UK