2023 Archives
Program
2023 Jury Chair
For its 30th edition, the Bayeux Calvados-Normandie War Correspondents' Award is preparing to welcome one of the biggest names in photojournalism: the British photographer Don (Donald) McCullin has accepted the invitation and agreed to take on the role of President of the international jury. Famous for his black-and-white photos, McCullin will be using his time in Bayeux to discuss his vision of the profession and the future of the news media with fellow photographers.
Exhibitions
2023 results
2022 Archives
Program
2022 Jury Chair
Thomas Dworzak is an internationally acclaimed war photographer and a specialist in the Caucasus, who has been documenting the majority of world events since the 1990s. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2000 and was their president from 2017 to 2020. His work has been widely published, including by The New Yorker, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Paris Match, The New York Times Magazine, Time… He won the World Press Photo award in 2001 for a report in Chechnya.
Exhibitions
2022 results
2021 Archives
Program
2021 Jury Chair
This year the jury will be chaired by an outstanding figure in photojournalism: the Franco-Iranian Manoocher Deghati has covered more than 40 wars or revolutions and has travelled to more than 100 countries. Since 1978 he has been photographing current affairs, conflicts and social unrest around the world, starting with the Iranian revolution and the war between Iran and Iraq that followed. After being exiled from his native country in 1985 he worked for several major agencies (Black Star, Sipa, Keystone, AFP) and international magazines including Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris Match, GEO and National Geographic Magazine
Exhibitions
2021 results
2020 Archives
Program
2020 Jury Chair
The chair 2020’s jury is a writer renowned for his work at The Guardian and The Observer: Ed Vulliamy has been a war reporter in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and many other conflict zones. His work and books have received numerous awards, including the Amnesty International Media prize in recognition of his commitment to human rights. With one foot in Europe and the other across the Atlantic, he has also written many reports on organised crime, both in Italy and on the US-Mexican border.
Exhibitions
2020 Results
2019 Archives
Program
2019 Jury Chair
The president of our jury in 2019 is one of the most seasoned war photographers of our time. Gary Knight’s photos have been published by Newsweek, Time, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, Paris Match, Stern and National Geographic. His work has been exhibited all over the world and is included in the collections of several museums. Gary Knight is also co-founder and a director of the VII Agency.
Exhibitions
2019 Results
2018 Archives
Program
2018 Jury Chair
A world-famous journalist has done us the great honour of agreeing to preside the jury’s deliberations. Christiane Amanpour is one of the best-known journalists in the profession and a winner of many awards. Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs program "Amanpour", which also airs on PBS in the United States. She is based in the network's London bureau.
Exhibitions
2018 Results
2017 Archives
Program
2017 Jury Chair
For the last 30 years, Jeremy Bowen has covered every major event on the planet for the BBC. From the war in El Salvador to the Romanian revolution, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, South Africa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Arab revolutions, the war in Syria... Jeremy Bowen has been everywhere. He has received many awards, as both a television and radio journalist, including three Bayeux-Calvados Awards.
Exhibitions
2017 Results
2016 Archives
Program
2016 Jury Chair
Born in 1944, Jean Claude Guillebaud is a journalist, writer and publisher. He was a special correspondent and war correspondent for the newspaper Sud Ouest, for Le Monde and then for Le Nouvel Observateur from 1968 until 1994.
Exhibitions
Unprecedented sound exhibition Come experience sounds with France Inter!
Curators: Jean-Marc Four (France Inter), Jean-Marie Porcher (Radio France)
Collective exhibition of AFP photojournalists
Roaming refugees accross Europe
Bernandino Hernandez
Nota Roja
Édouard Élias
The Boat People of the Deep Blue Sea
Gilles Caron: photographs of war
Virginie Nguyen Hoang - HansLucas / Huma
Gaza, the aftermath
2016 Results
Written Press
Wolfgang BAUER – DIE ZEIT “I’ve become someone else. Someone I no longer recognize” – NIGERIA
Photo
Yannis BEHRAKIS – REUTERS “The persecuted” – GREECE
Television
Arnaud COMTE and Stéphane GUILLEMOT – France 2 “Mossoul : run away at all costs” – IRAQ
Radio
Jeremy BOWEN – BBC NEWS “Yemen” – YEMEN
Grand Format television
Ayman OGHANNA and Warzer JAFF – VICE “The road to Fallujah“ – IRAQ
Young Reporter Prize
Mohammed Badra – EPA “Syria, those who remain”
Web journalism
Guillaume HERBAUT and Paul OUAZAN – ARTE “Ukraine: travelogue of a photographer”
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Virginie NGUYEN HOANG and Dastane ALTAÏR – PAC PRESSE for FRANCE 4 “War is a bitch” – UKRAINE
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Célia MERCIER – XXI “Passers of life” – IRAQ
General Public Prize
Yannis BEHRAKIS – REUTERS “The persecuted” – GREECE
Video image prize
Roméo LANGLOIS – France 24 “Assault the Caliphate” – SYRIA
2015 Archives
Program
2015 Jury Chair
A Cambridge graduate, Carlotta Gall began her career as a journalist in Russia in 1994. She worked for a number of British and American newspapers and covered the first war in Chechnya for the English-language Moscow Times. She then became the New York Times correspondent in Belgrade. In November 2001, her arrival in Kabul coincided with the fall of the Taliban; she stayed in Afghanistan for twelve years in charge of the New York Times office. Based in Tunisia since 2013, Carlotta Gall combines the qualities of a courageous war correspondent with those of a top-flight analyst.
Exhibitions
From Mosul to Raqqa
A collective Exhibition
Photographs by: Yasin Akgul / AFP, Youssef Boudlal / Reuters, Laurence Geai, Bulent Kilic / AFP, Ayman Oghanna, Christian Werner / Laïf
Discordia
Moises Saman - Magnum Photos
Ukraine – from West to East
Guillaume Herbaut, Jean-Philippe Stassen, Vadimsky
When the sky is blue
Tomas van Houtryve - VII
"Shoot the war" - Takes on war by Iraqis
Conceived and supervised: Katia Jarjoura
Somewhere in France
Summer 1944 by John G. Morris
Contact Press Images
2015 Results
Written Press
Christoph REUTER – DER SPIEGEL “ Haji Bakr, the brain of terror” – LEBANON
Photo
Heidi LEVINE – SIPA PRESS “War and healing in Gaza”
Television
Mikhail GALUSTOV – VICE “Russian roulette” – UKRAINE
Radio
Emma-Jane KIRBY – BBC “The optician of Lampedusa” – ITALY
Grand Format television
Xavier MUNTZ – PREMIERES LIGNES TELEVISION for ARTE “Surrounded by the Islamic State” – IRAQ
Young Reporter Prize
Pierre SAUTREUIL – L’OBS “New Russia” – UKRAINE
Web journalism
Christian WERNER – SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG “Black death” – MADAGASCAR
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Alex CRAWFORD – SKY NEWS “Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Wolfgang BAUER – DIE ZEIT “And before us lies our happiness” – EGYPT/SYRIA
General Public Prize
Heidi LEVINE – SIPA PRESS “War and healing in Gaza”
2014 Archives
Program
2014 Jury Chair
An American journalist and writer who specializes in the Middle East. A foreign correspondent and war correspondent, Jonathan Randal worked for the Washington Post for over 30 years on nearly all the world’s major conflicts. His books are outstanding works, acclaimed by the profession and translated into several languages.
Exhibitions
“170 000 Syrians”
Laurent Van der Stockt
People's Republic of Chaos. Ukraine
Maria Turchenkhova
“The Central African Republic: a year of hatred, violence and division”
A collective exhibition
Grozny: Nine Cities
Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko
Curator: Anna Shpakova
Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944
This exhibition shows extracts of the book Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944 dedicated to Robert Capa and his photos taken on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944.
Turkey: #occupygezi
Sipa Press
Curator: Ferit Duzyol
2014 Results
Written Press
Anthony LOYD – THE TIMES “I thought of Hakim as a friend. Then he shot me” – SYRIA
Photo
Mohamed AL-SHAIKH – AFP “The Shiite majority continues its demonstrations against the power” – BAHREIN
Television
Lyse DOUCET – BBC NEWS “Yarmouk” – SYRIA
Radio
Olivier POUJADE – FRANCE INTER “Operation Sangaris in the Bangui trap” – CENTRAL AFRICA
Grand Format television
Marcel METTELSIEFEN – ARTE REPORTAGE “Syria: life, stubbornly”
Young Reporter Prize
Alexey FURMAN – EPA “The Ukrainian crisis”
Web journalism
Gerald HOLUBOWICZ, Olga KRAVETS, Maria MORINA, Oksana YUSHKO, Anna SHPAKOVA – MEDIAPART – POLKA MAGAZINE CHEWBAHAT STORYTELLING LAB “Grozny : nine cities” – CHECHNYA
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Ian PANNELL – BBC NEWS “Chemical attack on a school” – SYRIA
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Claire MEYNIAL – LE POINT“In the martyr village of Boko Haram“ – NIGERIA
General Public Prize
Emin OZMEN – SIPA PRESS “Syria: Daily barbarism”
2013 Archives
Program
2013 Jury Chair
American photographer James Nachtwey is considered one of the greatest war photographers of our time. He is one of the most recognized and rewarded in the profession.
Exhibitions
Retrospective of 20 Years of War Reporting
Exhibition curator : Karen Lajon (reporter Le Journal du Dimanche) Scenography : Laurent Hochberg
Carte blanche - James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey, twice winner of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents in 1996 and 1999, presents around 30 images from his reports from around the world during the past 30 years. Photos that have become legendary and others never published nor exhibited.
The Sacrifice, by James Nachtwey
9.5 meter-long print wall comprising of 60 black and white images. The photos were taken in an American military hospital in Iraq.
A Look at the Young Generation of Photographers
Curator: Nicolas Jimenez (Photo Director for Le Monde)
Ten Years at the Frontline
Frontline Club
2013 Results
Written Press
Jean-Philippe REMY – LE MONDE ”On the Damascus front” – SYRIA
Photo
Fabio BUCCIARELLI – AFP ”Battle to the death” – SYRIA
Television
Sophie NIVELLE-CARDINALE – TF1 ”At the heart of the battle of Aleppo” – SYRIA
Radio
Marine OLIVESI – CBC ”Moussa et Alomari, home delivery people on a front line” – SYRIA
Grand Format television
Ben ANDERSON – BBC “Mission accomplished? Secrets of Helmand” – AFGHANISTAN
Young Reporter Prize
Florentin CASSONNET – XXI “Thirteen Englishmen on the road to Damascus” – SYRIA
Web journalism
Jean-Philippe REMY and Laurent VAN DER STOCKT – LE MONDE.FR “Syria: at the heart of the war”
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Sophie NIVELLE-CARDINALE – TF1 ”At the heart of the battle of Aleppo” – SYRIA ”
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Wolfgang BAUER – DIE ZEIT “Death is coming from the sky” – SYRIA
General Public Prize
Javier MANZANO – AFP “Siege of Aleppo” – SYRIA
2012 Archives
Program
2012 Jury Chair
A famous French photographer from the Magnum Photos agency. His work and books have probably had the greatest influence on young generations of photographers since 1980.
Gilles Peress started out in photography in 1970 and since then he has covered events in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, the Balkans, Rwanda, the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Gilles Peress has been awarded many prizes, his work has been exhibited at the world’s largest museums and he has published a number of noteworthy books. He continues to work on many different projects, always coming at them from a deeply humanist perspective.
Exhibitions
Syria, a sacrificed people
Rodrigo Abd (AP), Mani, Alessio Romenzi (Corbis)
“Portraits of enemies"
Karim Ben Khelifa
"Bosnia 1992-1995"
Curator: Jon Jones
The wrong side
Jérôme Sessini - Magnum Photos
L'Exil
La Maison des Journalistes
2012 Results
Written Press
Javier ESPINOSA – EL MUNDO ”The last battle of Bab Amr” – SYRIA
Photo
Aris MESSINIS – AFP ”The battle of Sirte” – LIBYA
Television
Nic ROBERTSON – CNN ”Syrie, la ville de première ligne – SYRIE”
Radio
Jeremy BOWEN – BBC NEWS ”Douma – SYRIA
Grand Format television
Mathieu MABIN – France 24 ”The Tripoli Brigade” – LIBYA
Young Reporter Prize
Ed OU – Reportage by Getty Images ”We loved it so much, the revolution” – EGYPT
Web journalism
David WOOD – Huffington Post ”Beyond the battlefield” – USA
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Mathieu MABIN – France 24 ”The Tripoli Brigade” – LIBYA
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Rémy OURDAN – LE MONDE ”The damned of Juarez” – MEXICO
General Public Prize
Manu BRABO – ASSOCIATED PRESS ”Libyan revolution – LIBYA
2011 Archives
Program
2011 Jury Chair
An American journalist and writer with a remarkable history. Born in 1944, Mort Rosenblum is a great reporter and war correspondent. He worked for Associated Press from 1965 to 2004 on nearly all major world conflicts including the Biafran war, Vietnam and the war in Iraq. He ran AP bureaus in the Congo, South-East Asia, Argentina and France. He now works freelance and teaches at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Exhibitions
Group exhibition “The Arab Spring”
Curator: Laurent Van der Stockt
"Black Passport"
Stanley Greene
Compiled by Teun van der Heijden
"Nigeria, The Oil War"
Véronique de Viguerie
Infidel & Sleeping soldiers
Tim Hetherington
"African women of the Great Lakes”
Titouan Lamazou
2011 Results
Written Press
Jon STEPHENSON – METRO MAGAZINE ”Eyes wide closed” – AFGHANISTAN
Photo
Yuri KOZYREV – NOOR ”Dispatches from Libya”
Television
Alex CRAWFORD – SKY NEWS ”The battle of Zaouia” – LIBYA
Radio
Etienne MONIN – France INFO ”Tripoli Street 17 April” – LIBYA
Grand Format television
Vaughan SMITH – FRONTLINE CLUB / AL JAZEERA ”Blood and dust” – AFGHANISTAN
Young Reporter Prize
Sara HUSSEIN – AFP ”The Libyan revolution” – LIBYA
Web journalism
Zoé LAMAZOU and Sarah LEDUC – France 24 ”Congo, peace violated” – DR OF CONGO
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Alex CRAWFORD – SKY NEWS ”The battle of Zaouia” – LIBYA
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Mariana GREPINET – PARIS MATCH ”The raped women of Luvungi” – DR OF CONGO
General Public Prize
Yuri KOZYREV – NOOR ”Dispatches from Libya”
2010 Archives
Program
2010 Jury Chair
Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Born in the US, she began reporting by covering the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s and went on to report nearly every violent conflict since then. She has campaigned for stories from Africa to be given better coverage, and she has worked in Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Liberia, as well as Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, East Timor and Chechnya.
Exhibitions
Magnum Photos for the freedom of the press
To celebrate its 25th birthday, Reporters sans frontières joined forces with Magnum Photos to publish its anniversary album, “Magnum Photos, 101 photos pour la liberté de la presse”, in May.
"Afghanistan : broken promise"
Moises Saman
"Congo: the endless war"
Jérôme Delay - Associated Press
Iran by Alfred - 1979-2009
Alfred Yaghobzadeh - Sipa Press
2010 Results
Written Press
Christophe BOLTANSKI – LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR ”The miners of hell”– RD DU CONGO
Photo
Véronique DE VIGUERIE – GETTY IMAGES / PARIS MATCH ”The Oil War” – NIGERIA
Television
Danfung DENNIS – PBS ”Obama’s war” – AFGHANISTAN
Radio
Florence LOZACH – EUROPE 1 ”The Kabul Postman: the man without an address” – AFGHANISTAN
Grand Format television
Gilles JACQUIER – France 2 ”School in Afghanistan: a blackboard”
Young Reporter Prize
Miles AMOORE – THE SUNDAY TIMES ”Two blood brothers scarred by war” – AFGHANISTAN
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Danfung DENNIS – PBS ”Obama’s war” – AFGHANISTAN
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Mélanie BOIS – Mélanie BOIS – ELLE ”You will not kill yourself” – PAKISTAN
General Public Prize
Véronique DE VIGUERIE – GETTY IMAGES / PARIS MATCH ”The Oil War” – NIGERIA
2009 Archives
Program
2009 Jury Chair
A major figure in the world of war correspondence. For over thirty-five years, Patrick Chauvel has photographed most of the conflicts that have raged in the world. He is one of the last of a generation of reporters who experienced the Six Day War, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ireland, Iran, Lebanon, Panama, Afghanistan, Israel, Chechnya... His images have been on the covers of the most prestigious media in the world. The author of numerous documentaries, he also wrote a book on the life of a war reporter, a bestseller: "Rapporteur de guerre".
Exhibitions
War here by Patrick Chauvel
What if war was part of our daily life...?
"Congo on a knife-edge"
Finbarr O'Reilly - Reuters
"Congo in Limbo"
Cédric Gerbehaye - Vu Agency
"Post-election violence in Kenya"
Yasuyoshi Chiba - Agence France-Presse
Battlespace – Unrealities of war
Photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan
2009 Results
Written Press
Christina LAMB – THE SUNDAY TIMES ”An impossible mission” – AFGHANISTAN
Photo
Walter ASTRADA – AFP ”Madagascar, a bloody political crisis”
Television
Paul COMITI – TF1 ”Afghan ambush” – AFGHANISTAN
Radio
Tim FRANKS – BBC NEWS ”A doctor from Gaza”
Grand Format television
Jeremy BOWEN – BBC NEWS ”Gaza – Out of the ruins”
Young Reporter Prize
Mohamed DAHIR – AFP ”Mogadishu, one of the most dangerous cities in the world”
Secondary School Students’ Prize
Paul COMITI – TF1 ”Afghan ambush” – AFGHANISTAN
Ouest-France-Jean Marin Prize
Célia Mercier – XXI ”Tarzan and Jane, Pashtun version” – PAKISTAN
General Public Prize
Jérôme DELAY – ASSOCIATED PRESS ”Trouble in Congo”