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Yan Morvan (born April 4, 1954) is a French photographer, journalist, photojournalist and author particularly recognized for his war photography and images of underground communities.His career, which began in 1974, has specialized in examining the underside of the society, his photographs have depicted the lives of underground communities, such as bikers, far right and far left activists, gangs, and sex workers.Co-director of the photojournalism section of the center for training and development of journalists in 1994, co-founder of the magazine Photographie.com in 1997, independent photojournalist since 1998, Morvan has been published extensively in French and international press.He has covered a number of major conflicts from 1980 and 2000 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Since 2005, he has focused on photographic projects (Battlefields, Hexagone) and exhibited in photo festivals. Additionally he is the author of some twenty books.