2023-09-02 06:00:25
For once, it is not a famous photographer who has the honors of the poster of the Perpignan photojournalism festival, which offers its thirty-fifth edition this year. The image is signed by an amateur – or an amateur – who has remained anonymous, and the photo is even of poor quality. “The printers were not very happy with my choice”, recognizes Jean-François Leroy, director of the festival, who has held on to this emblematic image of the popular uprising which has shaken Iran since the fall of 2022. We see there, from behind, a young girl, without a veil, her hair in the wind, standing on the roof of a car, watching a stream of thousands of people come to commemorate the death of Mahsa Amini, who died on September 16, 2022 after being arrested by vice squad for dress deemed inappropriate. “For me, this uprising is the event of the year, and this image has the force of the documentcontinues the director. She upsets me. The content is worth more than the form. »
An unveiled young woman rides on a vehicle as thousands of people march to the Aychi cemetery to commemorate the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s death, in Saqqez, her hometown, Iranian Kurdistan, October 26, 2022 Photograph used for the poster of Visa pour l’image. ANONYMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER
In fact, a rare thing in the temple of author photojournalism, an entire exhibition, which opens on Saturday September 2, under the title “You don’t die”, is devoted to photos and videos from Iran. , made mostly by amateurs and anonymous people. Documents patiently selected by two journalists from the Monde, Marie Sumalla and Ghazal Golshiri, before publishing them on February 15, 2022, on the Lemonde.fr website. These images then represented the only way to shed light on this popular movement in a country where there is neither free media nor access for foreign journalists, and where the regime stifles all signs of opposition. « The world does not work local photographer in Iran, because it is too dangerous”, says Ghazal Golshiri, who grew up in Tehran. She herself was the newspaper’s correspondent in Iran from 2016 to 2019, before leaving the country for fear of being imprisoned.
After the death of Mahsa Amini, Ghazal Golshiri saw all his Iranian friends and contacts testify to unprecedented acts of rebellion directed against the regime: outings in the streets without the Islamic headscarf, gatherings in the cemetery, demonstrations… “We wanted to tell this uprising without knowing if it was a revolution”, says Marie Sumalla, a photo editor who knows Iran well. But, when she looked for something to illustrate it, “there was nothing in the agencies, apart from the images fabricated by the regimeshe says. And we quickly realized that the most spectacular photos and videos were on social networks ».
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