Award-winning Austrian documentary maker Michael Glawogger has died from malaria while on the African leg of a world tour to shoot a new film.
Glawogger, who was 54, won numerous prizes for gritty films such as Whores' Glory (2011) about prostitution and Workingman's Death (2005) on the extremes people go to earn a living in the developing world.
He also teamed up with Wim Wenders, Robert Redford and other directors for the 3D Cathedrals of Culture, which featured at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Austrian Film Institute head Roland Teichmann said Glawogger "never allowed himself to be pigeonholed and leaves behind a cinematic oeuvre that has gone into the canon of world cinema".
Glawogger died while travelling through Liberia in west Africa with two others in a red Volkswagen van on a year-long filming trip that had already taken in eastern Europe, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal.
