His photograph of a woman grieving after the Bentalha massacre in Algeria, dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha", won both the World Press Photo of the Year[2] and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 1998.
[3] He joined Reuters as a photojournalist in 1989 and worked for Agence France-Presse from January 1993.
[3] Hocine's photograph titled "Woman Grieves after Massacre in Bentalha" was made on 23 September 1997 outside Zmirli Hospital, 15 km from Algiers.
Dead and wounded people had been taken to the hospital after the Bentalha massacre by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria the previous night, during the Algerian Civil War.
[6][7][8] It caused controversy in Algeria[9] and "has been credited with focusing attention on political violence" in the country.