2023-10-15 20:29:53
The ceremony shaken by the conflagration in the Middle East opened with a tribute to Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah, killed last Friday while covering the situation in southern Lebanon, with whom the six other journalists from Reuters agencies were associated , Al-Jazeera, and Agence France-Presse, including photographer Christina Assi and fellow video journalist, Dylan Collins, who were also injured on the ground.
Don McCullin president of the jury
The jury awarded first prize in the Photo category to independent photojournalist Siegfried Modola for his report on the heart of the Burmese armed revolution published in the Canadian English-speaking daily Globe and Mail, for which the Italian-British had already won the Visa d’Or at the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan last September.
The president of the jury, the British Don McCullin, legendary war photographer, said « The debates were both interesting and difficult: it was not easy to decide between those selected but each member of the jury was attentive and caring. The losers should not be disappointed; the winners deserve their prizes. “.
The war in Ukraine on all fronts
The conflict in Ukraine was particularly present with numerous reports in the running, five of which were distinguished: the report on the consequences of the war in Ukraine by American photojournalist Paula Bronstein of the Getty Images agency received the Public Photo prize.
A sunset over the military graves at the Kharkiv 18 cemetery (Ukraine), March 15, 2023. This photo was awarded the public prize at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize on Saturday October 14. /Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Furthermore, the large format television trophy went to Edward Kaprov, Daniel Fainberg, Eugene Titov (Magneto Presse for Arte) for their subject “Ukraine: a photographer in the war” and the video image prize went to Quentin Sommerville and Darren Conway (BBC NEWS) for “On Ukraine, Line Zero”.
In the written press, the young reporter prize was awarded to Francis Farrell (The Kyiv Independent) for his report “In the hell of Bakhmout: months of rare violence” and finally in the Radio category, it is the report of Maurine Mercier for RTS – France Info « The double punishment of a mother victim of rape in Boutcha” which was distinguished.
This is the second consecutive year that the Swiss journalist has been rewarded, the first part of her report on the abuses of the Russian army in Boutcha had already earned her a prize in 2022. “Thank you for this prize, I who always lack courage, you give me a little momentum”declared the journalist. “I often work far from the front lines because it scares me horribly and I want to give time to witnesses, but I would like to pay tribute to all those who are on the front currently”.
A selection of videos from Arman Soldin, the AFP videographer killed in Ukraine in May 2023, was also broadcast
In the TV category, Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé, Natalie Galloné and Étienne Dupont on the war between gangs and the Haitian police broadcast on CNN was doubly awarded, by the international jury and by the Normandy Region prize for high school students and apprentices.
Long-term investigations into the Middle East
The Middle East was not forgotten on the list, with in the written press category, Anthony Loyd’s investigation published in The Times, “The Forgotten Hostage”, about a hostage from the Islamic State group whose trace has been lost. Also awarded, the long-term work of Louis Imbert for “Travelers at the Egyptian Gate of Gaza” published in The world.
The newspaper’s correspondent in Jerusalem explained that this is a “crossing Gaza on foot from north to south, to become aware at eye level of the madness of an enclave. We have only been talking about Gaza in terms of numbers, of killed, of displaced, for a week and I find that the human dimension is a little lacking” he regretted.
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