Results of the 27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award

More than thirty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 9th and 10th to debate and award trophies in the following categories: photo, print, radio, television, grand format television, young reporter (photo) and video image. Three honorary awards have been attributed: the Regional prize for students and trainees of Normandy (television), the Public's Choice award (photo) and the Ouest-France - Jean Marin prize (print). Presided by Ed Vulliamy, the international jury of the 27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict...

I am absolutely exhausted, not for lack of sleep but for the intensity of what we've been doing. It is the honor of a lifetime to chair the jury. The Prix Bayeux is the epicentre, the centre of gravity of our profession. What is wonderful about the deliberations of the jury is that there is nor right or wrong : we have to make a judgement but it is impossible by definition. We are choosing between best and better. - Ed Vulliamy

PHOTO TROPHY - INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARDED BY NIKON
1st Prize
Lorenzo TUGNOLI
CONTRASTO for The Washington Post
La guerre plus longue
AFGHANISTAN

NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - 2019, DECEMBER 11: A group of Taliban fighters have lunch in a hide out in a remote part of Khogiani district. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post/Contrasto)

2nd Prize
Anthony WALLACE
AFP
Hong Kong, une révolte populaire
HONG KONG

3rd Prize
Laurent VAN DER STOCKT
Le Monde
Contestation irakienne : les jeunes exigent le changement
IRAQ

PRINT TROPHY - INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS
1st Prize
Allan KAVAL
Le Monde
Dans le nord-est de la Syrie, la mort lente des prisonniers djihadistes
SYRIA

2nd Prize
Fritz SCHAAP
Der Spiegel
Rain wars
CHAD

3rd Prize
Jack LOSH
Foreign Policy
Les gardes forestiers d'Afrique centrale sont aussi menacés que les animaux qu'ils protègent
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

YOUNG REPORTER TROPHY (PHOTO) - INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARDED BY CA NORMANDIE
1st Prize
Anas ALKHARBOUTLI
DPA
La guerre en Syrie
SYRIA

©Anas ALKHARBOUTLI/DPA

2020, January 11, Idlib: six-year-old Kenana Yassin, receives treatment after being injured along with three members of her family, in an airstrike by the Syrian government on the rebel-held Idlib province.

PHOTO TROPHY - PUBLIC'S CHOICE AWARD SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (AFD)
1st Prize
Anthony WALLACE
AFP
Hong Kong, une révolte populaire
HONG KONG

©Anthony WALLACE/AFP

AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2019 - Pro-democracy activists hold up LED lit letters which read Free HK as others shine torch lights, lights from their phones and lasers while forming a human chain on Lion Rock in Hong Kong on September 13, 2019. - Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists used torches, lanterns and laser pens to light up two of the city's best-known hillsides on September 13 night in an eye-catching protest alongside an annual festival. The evening of September 13 marks the start of the mid-autumn festival, one of the most important dates in the Chinese calendar, and is traditionally a time for thanksgiving, spending time with family and praying for good fortune.

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

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Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

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Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

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