Booking People’s Choice Award

On Saturday October 12th, the public will select its prize-winner in the photo category.
This prize will be handed during the award ceremony.

10 AM: People’s Choice Award sponsored by Groupe Nutriset - Isigny Sainte-Mère.
11 AM: Discussion with photojournalist Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi

Saturday 12 October, 10 am

Halle ô Grains
66, rue Saint-Jean
Doors open at 9.30 am

Booking required here

If you are unable to attend at the last minute, please contact us on +33 2 31 51 60 47


Booking Award ceremony

The ceremony hosted by Nicolas Poincaré will be the opportunity to review the major events of this past year. Documentaries made especially for this event will be shown throughout the evening. The public will also be able to discover the award-winning reports, in the presence of the jury and a great number of journalists.

SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER, 6.30 pm

Pavillon Prix Bayeux-Calvados
Place Gauquelin Despallières
Doors open at 5 pm

Booking required

If you are unable to attend at the last minute, please contact us on +33 2 31 51 60 47


Visual

The 2024 visual uses a photo from the 2023 winning report. This photograph taken by Siegfried Modola was part of his report shot between September 2022 and April 2023 inside Myanmar’s armed uprising.

Caption: Children hide in their school bomb shelter during an emergency drill in case of mortar shelling by government forces based a few kilometers from their town, on October 24, 2022, Kayah (Karenni) State, eastern Myanmar (Burma). The children do regular emergency drills in case of an attack.
Their town has been bombed three times in the last year. According to the United Nations, thousands of people have been killed, some 1.4 million have been displaced since the coup, and one-third of the country’s population needs humanitarian aid.

Siegfried Modola is a Kenya-raised independent Italian/British photojournalist and documentary photographer focusing on social, humanitarian, and geopolitical events. Modola’s career as a photojournalist took off when he started working for the Reuters news agency in Nairobi in 2010. Since then he has reported in over a dozen countries in Africa and has traversed the globe, venturing into diverse and often challenging environments to shed light on untold stories. He has worked in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America: From the post-coup d’etat conflict in Myanmar to the civil war in South Sudan and the conflict in Somalia to the chronic insecurity gripping the Central African Republic and Nigeria to the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He has covered the Venezuelan refugee crisis on its borders, the depopulation of the Italian countryside, immigration issues in Italy/France, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, the Syrian refugee crisis in northern Iraq in 2016 and the exodus of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in 2017, 2018 and 2019. His photographs have appeared in some of the most prominent publications worldwide, raising awareness among viewers.

© Bayeux Award photo 2023 – Siegfried Modola


Call for applications

The Bayeux Calvados-Normandy award for war correspondents rewards reports about a conflict situation or its impact on civilians, or news stories involving the defence of freedom and democracy.

The report must have been made between 1 June 2023 and 31 May 2024. A €7,000 prize is awarded in each category.
The reports must be submitted to the following address by June 6th 2024: info@prixbayeux.org with a link to download the entry

The categories of media represented are: radio – photography – television (short and long formats) – written press and the young reporter prize (photo this year)

TEN PRIZES ARE AWARDED

Seven prizes awarded by the international jury

  •  Written Press Prize
    sponsored by the Calvados Department – €7000
  • Television Prize
    sponsored by Amnesty International – €7000
  •  Radio Prize
    sponsored by the D-Day Landing Committee – €7000
  • Photo Prize 
    sponsored by Nikon – €7000
  • Grand format Television Prize
    sponsored by Caen Memorial museum – €7000
  • Young reporter Prize
    sponsored by Crédit Agricole Normandie – €3000
  • Video image Prize
    sponsored by Arte, France 24 and France Télévisions – €3000

Three special prizes

  • The Ouest-France – Jean Marin Prize (written press)
    – €4000
  • The Public Prize (photo)
    sponsored by the city of Bayeux
    – €3000
  •  The Normandy Region secondary School Students’ Prize (television)
    – €3000

REGULATIONS

Reports published or broadcast only on digital media can apply in the same way as others (regardless of whether the report has been published in photo category).

The Young Reporter’s Award: in 20234 the category is photo. Since there is a different category according to the years, the presented story must have been realized between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2024.

Written press category: the application must be made up of an article or a series of 1 to 3 articles on the same subject.

Television category: the length of the report must be between 1 minute 30 seconds and 6 minutes. The report submitted must be identical to the broadcast piece.

Grand format television category: the length of the report must be between 6 and 30 minutes. The report submitted must be identical to the broadcast piece.

Radio category: the length of the report must be between 1 minute and 6 minutes. The report submitted must be identical to the broadcast piece.

Photo category: The application comprises a report made up of 8 to 15 photos.


Clarissa Ward, President of the Jury for the 31st Prix Bayeux

The Anglo-American journalist Clarissa Ward has accepted the invitation from the Prix Bayeux-Calvados-Normandie for War Correspondents: next October the CNN star journalist will don the mantle of President of the international jury for the 31st edition of the event. At the age of 44, it is an“honour”and a “big responsibility” for one of the youngest Presidents in the history of the Prix Bayeux.

Last December Clarissa Ward became the first and only Western journalist to enter Gaza with neither permission nor escort from the Israeli army. A coup which served to confirm once more, as if it were needed, the aura and reputation of this multi-lingual journalist who had already received nine Emmys, three DuPont awards and two Peabody awards.

Birth of a vocation

For Clarissa Ward it all started in 2001. On 11 September to be precise. As she began her final year at Yale University, the young student of French, Italian and Russian literature – who had no ambitions of a career in journalism at the time – was deeply affected by the attack on the World Trade Centre.  She felt it as “a calling” even more than a shock, at the deepest level of her being. “I wanted to better understand how this had happened, and it seemed to me that some of it at least was born out of miscommunication and misunderstanding between different worlds. I became very fixated on this idea of trying to understand where this had come from, and I felt that I wanted to be a kind of translator between these two different worlds.” Clarissa took heed of her vocation, finished her studies, obtained her degree in comparative literature and began her career as a reporter.

Meteoric rise

Having begun as an assistant on the night-time edition of Fox News, Clarissa quickly moved to ABC and then CBS News. Working for these major American networks she was based first in Moscow, Beijing and then London and travelled to many war zones. Among them Syria provided the opportunity for her earliest coup and first international recognition: while there she did an interview with two Western fighters who had gone there to wage jihad, and became the only Western journalist to have interviewed an American jihadi.  In 2015 she joined CNN and three years later succeeded Christiane Amanpour as Chief International Correspondent. In 2021 she was in Afghanistan when the Taliban regained power. In 2022 she covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each time her reports on families in distress struck a chord with public opinion. Driven by “a fundamental curiosity about human nature” Clarissa Ward continued to pursue the mission she had set for herself more than twenty years earlier: “to shine a light on the experience of ordinary civilians living through extraordinary moments”.

Sensitivity

And Clarissa encountered many ordinary citizens. Very many. Enormous numbers of them. So many that she decided to write a book about them. On All Fronts: the Education of a Journalist, published in 2020, enabled her to share the “kindness, courage, resilience, altruism, bravery: you see extraordinary moments of kindness and selflessness that don’t generally make the front page of the papers, but need to be told”. Clarissa describes the book as a “memoir” that she also wrote for her children. As the mother of three young boys – “a second full-time job!” – the journalist firmly believes that her work will contribute to making her children “better citizens, better humans, open to the world and the way it works”. She explains that they in turn “have made her a better journalist, with a lot more compassion, viewing stories in a different way”. Having seen the worst of what humanity is capable of, she retains a degree of optimism. “I’ve seen the worst of humanity but also the best.”

A new role

Accustomed to ”going where the news takes her” Clarissa Ward will make an exception next October to spend a few days in Bayeux. A unique time and space that she sees as “the opportunity to immerse myself in some of the best journalism out there”. She feels honoured to take part in the deliberations for “one of the most prestigious and well-respected awards for conflict journalism” and is aware of her responsibilities: “Moderating the conversations around how we judge journalism, deconstructing stories, is a challenging process. What are the parameters for judging what is the best journalism? Is it about bravery? Is it about the story-telling? Is it about newsworthiness? Is it about impact? It’s not often that we have the opportunity to dig deep into what constitutes great journalism. I’m sure there’ll be some interesting debates: journalists love to debate!”

Following on from Christiane Amanpour

In addition to their origins (both were born in London) and their positions at CNN, Clarissa Ward and Christiane Amanpour will soon have another thing in common: having been President of the jury at the Prix Bayeux. In 2018 this small town in Calvados welcomed the American news channel’s star of current affairs.  In 2024 it will do so again with Clarissa Ward.

Clarissa Ward – Some dates

1980 — Born in London
2002 — Graduated Yale University with BA in comparative literature
2002 — CNN Moscow internship
2003 — FOX News Overnight Assignment Desk
2005 — Moved to Beirut and started working as a freelance producer in Baghdad / Beirut / Middle East
2007 — ABC News Moscow Correspondent
2009 — ABC News Beijing Correspondent
2011 — CBS News Correspondent based out of London, mostly covering the Syrian civil war
2011 — Peabody Award for her undercover work during the Syrian uprising
2013 — DuPont Columbia Award for her work in Syria for CBS News
2015 — Murrow Award for International Reporting, Washington State University
2015 — Joined CNN
2016 — Peabody Award for the CNN reports: ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Undercover in Syria, Battle for Mosul
2016 — David Kaplan Award for Undercover in Syria
2016 — Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists
2018 — Appointed CNN Chief International Correspondent
2019 — Reporter of the year for Alliance of Women in Media (AWM)
2020 — “On All Fronts: the Education of a Journalist” is published
2020 — DuPont Award with Nic Robertson for CNN’s reporting on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
2023 — Emmy and DuPont Awards for Ukraine coverage


An exceptional occasion for school children

For the 31st edition, the HCR - the United Nations Agency for refugees - and Ouest-France newspaper are offering an exceptional educational event for middle and high school students in Normandy: “the HCR-Ouest-France Encounters”.

Partners of the Bayeux award, the HCR and Ouest-France will be addressing school students and inviting them to meet refugees who will talk about their experiences of exile and the importance of international protection for those fleeing from war and persecution. In this age of instantaneous information, the HCR and Ouest-France aim to give young people a different understanding of the position of refugees in France and around the world.


Call for entries for Nikon portfolio readings

Come and present your work to leading image and photojournalism professionals at the portfolio readings organised as part of the partnership between Nikon and the Bayeux Award! This year, the readings will take place at Nikon Plaza on Monday 30 September 2024 from 1pm to 4pm and will be hosted by :

- Dimitri Beck - Director of Photography (Polka Magazine+Galerie+Factory)
- Olga Kravets - Writer, director and photographer (Mutin[R]y)
- Bénédicte Kurzen - Photojournalist (Noor)
- Véronique de Viguerie - Photojournalist (Getty Reportage / Verbatim Photo)
- Édouard Elias - Photoreporter (Galerie Polka)
- Adrien Vautier - Photojournalist

These lectures are aimed at amateurs or professionals who have already produced photo reports on subjects related to international news or in high-risk areas (areas of conflict, attacks on freedom and democracy, etc.).
To apply, send a covering letter and 20 photographs from a photo essay on a specific theme to nikonbayeux@gmail.com before 15 June 2024.

The selected photo essays will be exhibited twice: at Nikon Plaza from 1 October to 2 November, and at the Halle Ô Grains in Bayeux on Friday 11 October as part of the Rencontres Nikon during the 31st Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents. An evening presentation of the exhibition in the presence of the photographers will take place at Nikon Plaza on Monday 30 September from 5pm to 7pm.


30th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award: results

More than forty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 13th and 14th to debate and award trophies in the following categories: photo, print, radio, television, grand format television, young reporter (print) 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 Don McCullin, the international jury of the 30th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict…

It has been a great honor and a great experience to be here. We had two captivating days. Really stressfull on the first – especially on Saturday morning for me with the Photo Category – but captivating. Debates were quite interesting but difficult at the same time. It was not easy to decide the winners but every member of the jury was a generous and kind judge. The losers must not feel sad and the winners deserved what they got.”
Don McCullin


PHOTO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY NIKON

1st Prize

Siegfried MODOLA
Freelance
Au cœur de la rébellion birmane
MYANMAR

Karenni soldiers take shelter inside a drainage ditch as a mortar shell explodes close by during heavy clashes on April 16, 2023, in the village of Daw Nyay Khu, in Kayah (Karenni) State, eastern Myanmar (Burma). Two years after Myanmar plunged into civil war, the country’s military has increasingly taken drastic measures to destroy the uprising–with a heavy toll on the civilian population. In April this year, an airstrike by the junta killed 168 men, women and children. Last year the military struck a school with attack helicopters, killing several children. In the same month, an aerial bombing of a concert killed about 50 people. © Siegfried MODOLA
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2nd Prize

Evgeniy MALOLETKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
War in Ukraine
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Alessio MAMO
THE GUARDIAN
Crimes de guerre contre les civils
UKRAINE


TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

1st Prize

Nick PATON WALSH
Brice LAINÉ
Natalie GALLON
Etant DUPAIN
CNN
Gangs gain the upper hand in the war with Haitian police
HAITI

2nd Prize

Quentin SOMMERVILLE
Darren CONWAY
BBC NEWS
Sur l’Ukraine, ligne zéro
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Luc LACROIX
Artur KOUN
Alexandra DALSBAEK
France 2
Les deux visages de Marioupol occupée
UKRAINE


PHOTO TROPHY – PUBLIC’S CHOICE AWARD
SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (AFD)

1st Prize

Paula BRONSTEIN
GETTY IMAGES
The consequences of Ukraine war
UKRAINE

KHARKIV, UKRAINE - A colorful sunset over military graves in the Kharkiv cemetery 18 on March15, 2023 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The military section of this large cemetery is almost full as many soldiers come from Kharkiv. Many of the recent casualties were killed in Bakhmut as Ukrainian soldiers are being hit hard on three sides by Russian forces, taking many lives. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) The massive military section of Kharkiv cemetery number 18 is now almost completely full. It was a real shock to see so many more graves since my last visit over 3 months ago. Kharkiv is UkraineÕs second largest city having many who have joined the battle, recently Bakhmut has taken too many lives. On the day I took this sunset picture I had photographed five funerals in the morning, each family had their own priest so funerals were taking place all at the same time, it was overwhelming. I was emotionally drained, but told Mykola, my fixer and driver that I wanted to come back later in the day when the light had changed to reflect a different mood. I wasnÕt able to use the drone in this location, so I started taking photos standing on top of the car. As the sun was going down it became so beautiful, turning orange and pink, truly it was the image that I had hoped for. © Paula BRONSTEIN / Getty Images
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PRINT TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS

1st Prize

Anthony LOYD
THE TIMES
L’otage oublié
IRAQ – SYRIA – MOROCCO

2nd Prize

Louis IMBERT
LE MONDE
Gaza – Cisjordanie
PALESTINE

3rd Prize

Florent VERGNES
XXI
Russafrique, les mercenaires de Poutine
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC


RADIO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE D-DAY LANDING COMMITTEE

1st Prize

Maurine MERCIER
RTS – FRANCE INFO
La double peine d’une mère victime de viols à Boutcha
UKRAINE

2nd Prize

Quentin SOMMERVILLE
BBC NEWS
Ligne de front en Ukraine
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Jean Samuel MENTOR
HAITINEWS2000.NET
Haïti : le corps des femmes, terrain de guerre des bandits
HAITI


YOUNG REPORTER TROPHY (PRINT) – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY CRÉDIT AGRICOLE NORMANDIE

1st Prize

Francis FARREL
THE KYIV INDEPENDENT
Dans l’enfer de Bakhmout : des mois d’une rare violence
UKRAINE


GRAND FORMAT TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP

1st Prize

Edward KAPROV
Daniel FAINBERG
Eugene TITOV
Coproduction MAGNETO PRESSE and POLKA
for ARTE REPORTAGE
Ukraine : un photographe dans la guerre
UKRAINE

2nd Prize

Philomène REMY
Quentin BAULIER
Sofia KOCHMAR-TYMOSHENKO
Alexandra DALSBAEK
Simon TERRASSIER
BFM TV
Russia: The Stolen Children of Ukraine
UKRAINE – RUSSIA


VIDEO IMAGE TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY ARTE, FRANCE 24, FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS

1st Prize

Quentin SOMMERVILLE
Darren CONWAY
BBC NEWS
Sur l’Ukraine, ligne zéro
UKRAINE


PRINT TROPHY – OUEST-FRANCE – JEAN MARIN

1st Prize

Louis IMBERT
LE MONDE
Gaza – Cisjordanie
PALESTINE


TELEVISION TROPHY – REGIONAL PRIZE FOR STUDENTS AND TRAINEES OF NORMANDY

1st Prize

Nick PATON WALSH
Brice LAINÉ
Natalie GALLON
Etant DUPAIN
CNN
Gangs gain the upper hand in war with Haitian police
HAITI


Visual

The 2023 visual uses a photo from the 2022 winning report. This photograph taken by Evgeniy Maloletka was part of his report shot in March 2022 on the siege of Mariupol.

Caption: People lie on the floor of a hospital during a shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol, Friday, March 4, 2022.

Evgeniy Maloletka is a Ukrainian war photographer, journalist and filmmaker, who has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014.
He has also covered the Euromaidan Revolution, the protests in Belarus, the Nagorno-Karabakh war and the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.
His work was published in numerous prominent media: TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Independent, El Pais, The Guardian, The Telegraph and others.
In February and March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Associated Press staff Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, stayed in Mariupol, which was encircled by the Russian troops, under siege, and extensively bombed, whereas the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Defense Ministry claimed that Russia only targets military installations.
They were among the few journalists in Mariupol during that period, and their photographs were extensively used by Western media to cover the situation. On 11 March they were in a hospital taking photos when they were taken out of the city with the assistance of Ukrainian soldiers.
They managed to escape from Mariupol unharmed.
Evgeniy Maloletka writes: ”For me as a Ukrainian it is important to show the world what is really happening on the ground. We report what we see: the truth and facts, and portray the persistence and courage of ordinary Ukrainians.”

© Bayeux Award photo 2022 – Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press


Don McCullin, President of the jury of the 30th edition

For its 30th edition the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents is preparing to welcome one of the greatest names in photojournalism: British photojournalist Don (Donald) McCullin has accepted the invitation and agreed to take on the role of President of the International jury. Renowned for his black and white photos, he intends to make full use of his visit to Bayeux to spend time exchanging with his colleagues on his vision of the profession and the future of the news media. 

© Reg Stewart (courtesy Contact Press Images)

Since the publication in 1959 of his first photo in the British Observer, Don McCullin has been photographing war and the situation of the suffering, the destitute and the victims. The darkness of his images is equalled only by his humanity. “I’ve always pointed my camera in the direction of people who have no defence against their society, under-privileged people. I have to speak for the under-privileged.” Speak for them. Through his photos he would do this for more than half a century. Whether in deprived neighbourhoods of London or in the most far-flung war zones he would capture a situation, a gaze or an expression. “The story of a life can always be seen in the eyes of the victims.” He was able to feel, understand and reveal distress because he had experienced it himself.    “When I started to photograph war, I already knew about violence. My life began in a part of London which was full of poverty, racism, violence and criminals. I had to leave school when I was 14, when my father died. I had no destiny and no education. Until I made up my mind I didn’t want to become a criminal and took another journey from that place where I grew up as a boy.” So it would be his own background and his own sensibility rather than his education that would make him such an exceptional photographer.  “I’ve always had a very deep sense of feeling about humanity.”

“When I started to photograph war, I already knew about violence”

At the end of his military service in the Royal Air Force, during which he discovered both travel and photography, Don McCullin’s life took a major turn. Returning to London armed with a camera he immortalised his childhood friends, the Guv’nors gang, for posterity. The Observer newspaper published one of his photos to illustrate a crime story: this marked the start of his career. He quickly began to win major awards for his current affairs photography. In 1961 his report on the construction of the Berlin Wall received a British Press Award; in 1964 his coverage of the civil war in Cyprus was recognised by the distinguished World Press Photo award. In 1966 he signed an exclusive contract with The Sunday Times magazine, with which he would stay until 1984.  During this period he covered every conflict of the time – Vietnam, Cambodia, Congo, Israel, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Chad, El Salvador, Iran, Uganda…. He also documented the famines in Bihar (India) and Biafra (Nigeria). His forays to the hearts of the world’s trouble spots didn’t leave him unscathed: he received a punctured eardrum, bullet wounds and fractures as well as imprisonment, expulsions and threats. The photographer admits as much:  “I paid in pain in many ways, and I’m lucky to be alive. But I couldn’t stop, I could have but there was something addictive about war. All those years I spent photographing war I thought I was doing something that was useful to our society, to explain what was going on in other places. What I was doing wasn’t personal: I was trying to show people the futility of war.”

“I was trying to show people the futility of war.”

Alongside his reports from overseas, Don McCullin continued to capture the deprivation ravaging his own country – deprived children in Bradford, down-and-outs in London, the working class of England’s industrial towns… “I’ve photographed a lot of poverty in England: there are 2 million people still living almost like dogs in this country. People don’t realise that.” His photographs of England in the 1970s were published in two books, Homecoming in 1979 and Hearts of Darkness in 1980. The latter, a retrospective of the first part of his career, would be the subject of an exhibition at the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum in London in the year of its publication, and in New York the following year. It would be the start of a lengthy series of exhibitions around the world.  The decade that followed saw another turning point in Don McCullin’s career: although he continued to cover war and its impacts on populations, his drive to tell human stories began to be complemented in his fifties by a passion for landscapes. It was both a passion and a form of therapy.   “When you’ve spent so many years like me looking at war there’s no way you can ever chase away the images from your memory: there’s no treatment. Photographing landscapes helped me, I had to do something different. Instead of going to a psychiatrist I became my own psychiatrist by using my photographic knowledge. Half my memory now is war, and the other half is peace.”  After immortalising all that was worst in the world, Don McCullin would now capture the beauty it has to offer. “I don’t want to be remembered just as a war photographer of dead bodies and war and pain because I’ve also photographed the most beautiful things: I photographed flowers, landscapes, ethnic minority people in jungles. I’ve been all over the world photographing all kinds of things that are not war.” All over the world, certainly, but above all close to home, in the English countryside of Somerset.

“I don’t want to be remembered just as a war photographer, because I’ve also photographed the most beautiful things”

Since he’s no longer physically able to “climb over the hedgerows and fields and gates and travel the world” Don McCullin continues to work on books. Following on from his celebrated autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour, published in 1990 (appearing in France under the title Risques et périls) and numerous other books, in June 2023 he is to publish a collection devoted to the Roman heritage in Turkey. An exhibition in Rome will follow in October. It will be a busy autumn for this prolific photographer, who will preside over the international jury for the 30th Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents on 13 and 14 October. He is looking forward to meeting up with many of his colleagues there. “I’ve always been very happy being around journalists and photographers. They’ve been my life and I’m always happy when I’m with them. It will be an opportunity for me to hear what they think about the coverage of today’s conflicts, the work of photojournalists in the digital age of social networks. I wonder a lot about the future of the media, and these exchanges will be fascinating.”  As someone who has also lost many friends over the course of the years, and in particular French photographer Gilles Caron (who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970), the memorial ceremony held in Bayeux will be an important occasion. “We can’t forget all those who have died for this cause, people who have sacrificed their lives in journalism to bring the truth of our world to our news organisations. Young journalists have to be aware that only they can keep themselves alive, or keep journalism and the industry of journalism and the news media alive. I’m coming to Bayeux for many reasons, but above all I’d like to use my voice, my influence to say ‘We must keep our eyes open’.”

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures”. (donmccullin.com)

1935 – Donald McCullin is born in London
1961British Press Award for his report on the building of the Berlin Wall
1964World Press Photo for his coverage of the civil war in Cyprus
1971 – Publication of his first photo essay The Destruction Business
1979 – Publication of Homecoming
1980 – Publication of the collection Hearts of Darkness
1992 and 1993 – Prix Erich-Salomon, Appearance of Photo Poche no 53
1993 – Became the first photojournalist to be awarded the C.B.E  (Commander of the British Empire)
1995 – His archives are represented and distributed by Contact Press Images
2001 –  Publication of Don McCullin, a major retrospective
2005 – Exhibition at the Bayeux Award
2006 – Cornell-Capa Prize (Cornell Capa Infinity Award) at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
2007 – Publication of In England
2007 – Honoured by the Royal Photographic Society : honorary Fellowship (FRPS) and Centenary Medal for his contribution to the art of photography
2009 – Publication of the 30th Reporters Without Borders album
2010 – Publication of Southern Frontiers, A Journey Across the Roman Empire on ruins from the Roman empire
2013 – Honorary Gold Visa from Figaro Magazine
2016 – Lucie Award for photojournalism
2017 – Made a Knight Bachelor by the Queen for services to photography. Prince Charles presided at the ceremony.
2019 – Extensive retrospective at Tate Britain, London.
2020 – ICP Lifetime Achievement Award
2023 – President of the Jury for the 30th Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents


An exceptional occasion for school children

For the 30th edition, the HCR - the United Nations Agency for refugees - and Ouest-France newspaper are offering an exceptional educational event for middle and high school students in Normandy: “the HCR-Ouest-France Encounters”.

Partners of the Bayeux award, the HCR and Ouest-France will be addressing school students and inviting them to meet refugees who will talk about their experiences of exile and the importance of international protection for those fleeing from war and persecution. In this age of instantaneous information, the HCR and Ouest-France aim to give young people a different understanding of the position of refugees in France and around the world.


#FREEMORTAZA

The Bayeux Award is working alongside Reporters Without Borders for the immediate release of journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who
has been unduly imprisoned in the Afghan capital since 7 January. Winner of the Bayeux Award in 2022 with Dorothée Ollieric and
Nicolas Auer, Mortaza Behboudi came on stage to talk about the situation in Afghanistan and especially about his work as a journalist
in the field.
The annual Reporters Without Borders report on abuses against journalists worldwide registered a record of 533 journalists in
detention in 2022.


29th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award: results

More than forty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 7th and 8th 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 Thomas Dworzak, the international jury of the 29th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict…

“Alongside my colleagues, I discovered works of indisputable excellence. The level was so high it was difficult to decide between the reports! The deliberations were intense, essential, very nourished. To hear the arguments of my peers, of whom I respect the work, will remain an unforgettable experience for me.
Thomas Dworzak


PHOTO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY NIKON

1st Prize

Evgeniy MALOLETKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Siege in Mariupol
UKRAINE

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The woman and her baby died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. © Evgeniy MALOLETKA / AP
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2nd Prize

Yasuyoshi CHIBA
AFP
Les rebelles reprennent la capitale du Tigré
MEKELE, ETHIOPIA

3rd Prize

Vadim GHIRDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
War in Ukraine
UKRAINE


TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

1st Prize

Théo MANEVAL and Pierre DEHOORNE
France 5 – C dans l’air
Viktor et le baiser de la guerre
UKRAINE

2nd Prize

Mstyslav CHERNOV
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marioupol – La mort d’une ville ukrainienne
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Jeremy BOWEN and Lee DURANT
BBC
Des cadavres sur la route du cauchemar
UKRAINE


PHOTO TROPHY – PUBLIC’S CHOICE AWARD
SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (AFD)

1st Prize

Vadim GHIRDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
War in Ukraine
UKRAINE

Children look out the window of an unheated Lviv bound train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. © Vadim GHIRDA / AP
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PRINT TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS

1st Prize

Mariam OUEDRAOGO
EDITIONS SIDWAYA
Axe Dablo-Kaya : la route de l’enfer des femmes déplacées internes
BURKINA FASO

2nd Prize

Margaux BENN
LE FIGARO
En Ukraine, la rage de vivre pour vaincre l’horreur
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Rachida EL AZZOUZI and Mortaza BEHBOUDI
MEDIAPART
À travers l’Afghanistan, six mois après le retour des talibans
AFGHANISTAN


RADIO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE D-DAY LANDING COMMITTEE

1st Prize

Maurine MERCIER
France INFO – RTS
Guerre en Ukraine : une mère et sa fille racontent deux semaines de viols et de terreur à Boutcha
UKRAINE

2nd Prize

Quentin SOMMERVILLE
BBC NEWS
La patrouille à pied
UKRAINE

3rd Prize

Jeremy BOWEN
BBC NEWS
Iryna Kostenko
UKRAINE


YOUNG REPORTER TROPHY (PHOTO) – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY CRÉDIT AGRICOLE NORMANDIE

1st Prize

Abdulmonam EASSA
Freelance for Le Monde, The New York Times, Getty Images
La rage pacifique ne meurt pas
SUDAN

A young man is disoriented after choking on tear gas fired by police during a Resistance Day demonstration on 13 November 2021, in Omdurman, northwest of Khartum. © Abdulmonam EASSA for Le Monde, The New York Times, Getty Images
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GRAND FORMAT TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP

1st Prize

Philip COX
THE GUARDIAN
Le Spiderman du Soudan
SUDAN

2nd Prize

Ben C. SOLOMON
Adam DESIDERIO
VICE NEWS
Fall of Kandahar
AFGHANISTAN


VIDEO IMAGE TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY ARTE, FRANCE 24, FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS

1st Prize

Mstyslav CHERNOV
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marioupol – La mort d’une ville ukrainienne
UKRAINE


PRINT TROPHY – OUEST-FRANCE – JEAN MARIN

1st Prize

Nicolas DELESALLE
PARIS MATCH
Ukraine : le convoi de la dernière chance
UKRAINE


TELEVISION TROPHY – REGIONAL PRIZE FOR STUDENTS AND TRAINEES OF NORMANDY

1st Prize

Dorothée OLLIERIC, Nicolas AUER and Mortaza BEHBOUDI
France 2
Les petites filles afghanes vendues pour survivre
AFGHANISTAN