Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war corespondents

[Audio] « Mosul » avant-première européenne

16 novembre 2017News

Ce documentaire, réalisé par Olivier Sarbil et diffusé en avant-première à Bayeux, jeudi 5 Octobre 2017, suit un groupe de jeunes soldats des forces spéciales sur la ligne de front de la bataille la plus brutale d’Irak pour détruire le dernier bastion d’ISIS. Au cours de six mois de tournage à l’intérieur de Mossoul, le journaliste français Olivier Sarbil réalise un portrait viscéralement intime de la guerre.

La projection fut suivie d’un échange animé par Loïck Berrou avec Olivier Sarbil, Gwendoline Debono et Laurent Van der Stockt

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[Audio] Soirée grands reporters - « Où va la Turquie d’Erdoğan ?»

16 novembre 2017News

15 mois après le putsch manqué contre le président Erdoğan, la Turquie oscille entre l’hystérie collective et un régime de terreur : plus de 138.000 fonctionnaires limogés, 2.000 écoles et 150 médias fermés, 55.000 personnes emprisonnées au nom de la lutte anti-terroriste ou pour des liens présumés avec la confrérie islamiste Gülen, des peines passibles de 30 à 142 ans de prison. Près de 900 entreprises dont la valeur totale des actifs est estimée à 14 milliards de dollars expropriées. Arrestations de militaires et gendarmes, fuite des investisseurs.

L’alibi du coup d’état manqué n’est-il pas opportun pour justifier cette intrusion massive dans l’appareil d’État et cette concentration des pouvoirs entre les mains d’un seul homme ? En avril dernier, Erdoğan convoque un référendum constitutionnel qui lui donne à 52% le droit de cumuler en 2019 les fonctions de chef de l’État, Premier ministre, chef de la faction parlementaire et responsable de la nomination de la moitié des hauts magistrats. Jamais un Président n’a cumulé autant de mandats dans l’histoire de la Turquie.

Parler de la Turquie, c’est donc parler d’Erdoğan. Le culte de l’autorité revenu. Les codes des prestiges de l’Empire Ottoman. Revenir à des sources anthropologiques quelque peu arrangées. Comment expliquer ses succès électoraux ?

Parler de la Turquie, c’est toucher aux problématiques d’un positionnement géopolitique semblable à la Russie de Poutine. L’Ouest ou l’Est ? Se tourner vers l’Europe ou le Moyen Orient ? C’est retrouver les marqueurs de l’Histoire. Cette bascule entre l’Occident et l’Orient rythme l’histoire turque. La réflexion n’est pas contemporaine.

Parler de la Turquie, c’est évoquer aussi la relation aux kurdes et par ricochet analyser l’implication ambiguë d’Ankara dans le conflit syrien.

Une soirée préparée et animée par Eric Valmir (France Inter) avec notamment Mathias Depardon, Jana Jabbour, Erol Önderoglu (représentant de RSF en Turquie)

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24^th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award: results

7 octobre 2017News

Fifty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 6^th and 7^th 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 Jeremy Bowen, the international jury of the 24^th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict…

« It’s been a great honor to be president of the jury. I’ve really enjoyed it, as well as working with my French colleagues.
I’m very impressed by the standard of the entries, dominated by Iraq and Syria, which was very high. I think it shows that journalism is in a good state, a good position. The final choice, made by the jury composed of very experienced journalists, was the right one. It shows that there are some very brave, skillful and honest journalists who are working in some of the world’s most dangerous places. They are shining a light into the dark corners of the world and that is a very important thing to do. »
Jeremy Bowen

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PHOTO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY NIKON

1^st Prize

Ali ARKADY
VII PHOTO AGENCY
Kissing death
IRAQ

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2^nd Prize

Laurent VAN DER STOCKT
LE MONDE
La bataille de Mossoul
IRAQ

3^rd Prize

Lorenzo MELONI
MAGNUM PHOTOS
La chute du Califat
LIBYA – IRAQ

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TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

1^st Prize

Waad AL-KATEAB
CHANNEL 4
Rebel-held Aleppo’s last hospital
SYRIA

2^nd Prize

Arwa DAMON et Brice LAINÉ
CNN
Mosul survivors: death is better than this life
IRAQ

3^e Prix

Fergal KEANE and Rob MAGEE
BBC NEWS
Yemen
YEMEN

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

1^st Prize

Antoine AGOUDJIAN
LE FIGARO MAGAZINE
La conquête de Mossoul ouest
IRAQ

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PRINT TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS

1^st Prize

Samuel FOREY
LE FIGARO
Mossoul : cinq offensives pour une bataille
IRAQ

2^nd Prize

Fritz SCHAAP
DER SPIEGEL
Despair and debauchery in Assad’s Capital
SYRIA

3^rd Prize

Karam AL-MASRI and Rana EL MOUSSAOUI
AFP
Covering Syria through hunger and fear
SYRIA

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

1^st Prize

Gwendoline DEBONO
EUROPE 1
L’entrée dans Mossoul
IRAQ

2^nd Prize

Mike THOMSON
BBC NEWS
Secret Library
SYRIA

3^rd Prize

Omar OUAHMANE
FRANCE INTER
Syrte, l’autre guerre contre Daech
LIBYA

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YOUNG REPORTER TROPHY (PRINT) – INTERNATIONAL JURY
SPONSORED BY CAPA PRESSE TV

1^st Prize

May JEONG
THE INTERCEPT
Death from the sky
AFGHANISTAN – USA

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GRAND FORMAT TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY SCAM

1^st Prize

Olivier SARBIL
CHANNEL 4 NEWS
Dans la bataille de Mossoul
IRAQ

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VIDEO IMAGE TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
SPONSORED BY Bew TV / FRANCE 24 / ARTE

1^st Prize

Olivier SARBIL
CHANNEL 4 NEWS
Dans la bataille de Mossoul
IRAQ

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PRINT TROPHY – OUEST-FRANCE – JEAN MARIN

1^st Prize

Fritz SCHAAP
DER SPIEGEL
Despair and debauchery in Assad’s Capital
SYRIA

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TELEVISION TROPHY – REGIONAL PRIZE FOR STUDENTS AND TRAINEES OF NORMANDY

1^st Prize

Waad AL-KATEAB
CHANNEL 4
Rebel-held Aleppo’s last hospital
SYRIA

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Film hommage à Bakhtiyar Haddad

4 octobre 2017News

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Announcing participants of noor-nikon france visual journalism workshop in bayeux

8 septembre 2017News

Noor images and the Nikon France Pro Department are pleased to announce the 12 participants selected for the 2017 NOOR-Nikon visual journalism workshop – Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project with Pep Bonet and Kadir van Lohuizen.

The participants, six male photographers and six female photographers from 10 different countries, were selected from over 60 applicants. We thank all the candidates for sending us their applications and portfolios. The selected twelve are:

Svetlana Bulatova
Rebecca Conway
Farbod Firoozi
Julie Franchet
Nick Jaussi
Marjan Kochak Yazdi
Daniela Koenig
Seif Kousmate
Emilienne Malfatto
Milutin Markovic
Vilhelm Stockstad
Nicola Zolin

The workshop will take place during the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents, from 3 to 7 October. Organized since 1994, this is an annual event that pays tribute to and brings together journalists working in precarious conditions whom enable the public free access to information.

During the five-day program, NOOR photographers and agency co-founders Pep Bonet (ES) and Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) will share key insights, experiences and tools to help workshop participants develop their own long term transmedia projects. The program includes one on one portfolio reviews with each tutor, group editing sessions, along with presentations and discussions covering everything from transmedia project conception, budget development and production, to collaboration and dissemination. Tuition and meals during the workshop are free through the generous support of Nikon France.

Sign up here to receive future Open Calls for Applications from NOOR Education

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4 Syrian photographers in Bayeux

31 août 2017News

OCTOBER 2nd TO 29th

Multimedia exhibition from the AFP on Syria

A first ever exhibition of the AFP's Syrian photographers

Meet the Syrians photographers on saturday 7 october at 4 pm in the exhibition

A previously unseen exhibition focusing on the work of the AFP’s Syrian photographers.
Four Syrian photographers will be in Bayeux to share their accounts: Karam Al-Masri, Zakaria Abdelkafi, Baraa Al-Halabi et Ameer Alhalbi.

❱ They did not only witness things that no person should have to witness. They have faithfully recorded unbearable human pain and suffering for the history books. Again and again and again. They have done so in words, photos and video. They have done so despite their own pain.
For they were not impassioned observers of events happening in a foreign land. They were bearing witness to their country and home falling apart. They were bearing witnesss to the pain and suffering of their friends, their relatives, their neighbors. Time and time again pointed their eyes and lenses on mangled bodies, bloodied children, wailing mothers and they recorded the events. When you ask them why, their replies are nearly universal – so the world would know.
Some of the journalists who have produced the harrowing images that AFP has brought the world from Syria over the past five years are among you at this exhibition. They have managed to get out of their tortured homeland and are rebuilding their lives in Europe. But some are still there, recording the war that seems to have no end in sight.
The exhibition is made up of some 40 photographs taken over the past year.
Videos and slideshows will be shown on the big screens and you can read the multimedia blogs by the contributors on the computer tablets provided.

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European premiere "Mosul"

31 août 2017News

THURSDAY OCTOBER 5th

Screening and debate "Mosul"

Directed by Olivier Sarbil.

This feature-length documentary follows a group of young special forces soldiers on the very frontline of Iraq’s most brutal battle to destroy ISIS’ last stronghold. Over the course of six months of filming inside Mosul, French cinematographer Olivier Sarbil records a viscerally intimate portrait of war.

The documentary will be followed by an exchange animated by Loïck Berrou with Olivier Sarbil, Gwendoline Debono and Laurent Van der Stockt.

Filmed and Directed by Olivier Sarbil
Producer: James Jones
Editor: Ella Newton
Music: Massive Attack
Production Manager: Pip Lacey
Senior Producer: Dan Edge
Managing Editor for FRONTLINE PBS: Andrew Metz
Executive Producer for FRONTLINE PBS: Raney Aronson-Rath
A FRONTLINE production in association with Mongoose Pictures

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Program of the 24^th edition

31 août 2017News

A week of meetings on international news

During the week, international news will be the focus of a wide range of events in Bayeux: unusual exhibitions, discussion evenings, film projections, book fair, events for schools, etc., giving the public a chance to meet journalists and foreign correspondents whose daily task is to report on the world’s troubles.

Find the program here

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Jeremy Bowen, President of the jury

31 août 2017News

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.

Born in 1960 in Wales, Jeremy Bowen joined the BBC in 1984 and has spent a large part of his career as a war correspondent, beginning in El Salvador in 1989. He has produced reports from more than 70 different countries (including the Romanian revolution, the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, South Africa, Israel and Palestine, Rwanda, Algeria, Chechnya, Yugoslavia, 11 September 2001 and Yemen) He covered the conflicts of the Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war and in Kosovo in 1999. He was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, from 1995 to 2000, and has been the BBC's Middle East Editor since 2005. In February 2011 he was the first British journalist to interview Muammar Gaddafi at the start of the civil war in Libya. He has been covering the war in Syria for the past six years and is currently covering the battle for Mosul.

« It is a great honour to be this year's President of the Bayeux jury. The Bayeux war reporting prize has a brilliant reputation, and I've been proud to have been a winner in the past. Bayeux's history makes it the perfect place to be able to discuss -- and celebrate -- the best journalism from the most demanding parts of the world.
Good journalism, in all different media, has never been more necessary. All the players in modern conflicts want to control the media battlefield. It is our job to shine a light into the world's darkest corners, to do the best we can to find the truth and report it.
Plenty of bad people want to stop that happening, which is why it's a dangerous time to be in the news business. The welcome offered by the people of Bayeux at this unique festival offers a moment of peace to think about what we do -- and to work out how we can do better.» Jeremy Bowen

Awards
Royal Television Society 1995 (death of Rabin), Monte Carlo TV Festival (siege of Mostar)
New York TV Festival (siege of Mostar), Sony Gold Award (arrest of Saddam Hussein)
Sian Phllips Bafta Cymru award for significant contribution to international feature filmmaking or network television.
Emmy for Syria coverage, Peabody award for Syria coverage
Royal Television Society TV journalist of the year
Royal Television Society specialist journalist of the year
Royal Television Society interview of the year (for an interview with Bashar al Assad)
3 Bayeux awards (Gaza, Syria and Yemen)
James Cameron Award, Charles Wheeler Award
Was also part of the BBC teams that won: Bafta (Kosovo), International Emmy (2006)

Books :
Six Days: How the 1967 War shaped the Middle East (Simon and Schuster 2003)
War Stories (Simon and Schuster 2005)
The Arab Uprisings: the people want the fall of the regime (Simon and Schuster 2012)

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Workshop Nikon – NOOR

30 août 2017News

Nikon will once again organize a workshop for talented young photojournalists in the framework of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, as it has done each year since 2013. This year, Pep Bonet and Kadir van Lohuizen, founder members of the NOOR agency, will come to share their experience of producing multimedia reports.

2017 is a special year both for Nikon, which is celebrating its centenary, and for the NOOR agency, supported by Nikon since 2009, which is celebrating its 10th birthday.

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IUT LANNION

30 août 2017News

This year, 27 second year Journalism students from the Lannion Technology University will be attending the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents. They will be producing work in different media  (sound, video, text, photography and computer graphics)  while dealing with the kinds of challenges faced by professional journalists in the specific context of a country at war – including difficult terrain, the geopolitical context, combat and relationships with sources.

Follow them at: http://prixbayeux2017.iut-lannion.fr/

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RADIO ARGOUGES

30 août 2017News

For its third year on air, Radio Argouges is expanding and will welcome new reporters from the Mutual Assistance Group, the Children and Young People’s Municipal Council and the Jeanne d’Arc High School.

Throughout the week, the Radio Argouges group will present programmes connected with the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents programme and the highlights of the week in Bayeux.  Tune in to 107.5 FM or zonesdondes.org from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 October from 11am to 12 noon and from 2pm until 5pm. This year the programmes will also be broadcast on Radio Tou’Caen métropole Normandie, 91.9 FM, and on radio-toucaen.fr.

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2017 visual

30 mars 2017News

The 2017 visual is a photo from the 2016 winning report. This photograph taken by Yannis Behrakis from Reuters agency, was part of his report shot in Grece between june and october 2015.

Migrants and refugees beg FYRO Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into FYROM during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni. Thousands of panicking refugees and migrants waited to cross, Idomeni, September 10, 2015.

Yannis Behrakis

Yannis Behrakis was born in 1960 in Athens, Greece. He studied photography at the Athens School of Arts and Technology and graduated from the Middlesex University (UK). He has been working as photojournalist for Reuters since 1987.

Over the last 25 years, he covered major breaking news and political stories in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He photographed major moments in history including the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the changes in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the civil conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, the wars in Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Gulf Wars and the Arab Spring. In 2008 he moved to Jerusalem as chief photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories and returned to Greece in 2010 where he is now covering extensively both the financial and the migrant crises.
Behrakis has been awarded with some of the industry’s most prestigious awards throughout his career including World Press, Overseas Press Club and Prix Bayeux-Calvados… In 2016 he led the Reuters team to win the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their work covering refugees and migrants arriving in Europe.

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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will be a partner of the 24^th edition

30 mars 2017News

Established in 1951 in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (HCR) is a United Nations body whose mission is to protect, help and find solutions for refugees, internally displaced people and stateless persons. The HCR has more than 10,700 employees spread across 128 countries.

Since its creation, the HCR has helped more than 50 million refugees to begin a new life.
Conflicts and persecution have led to a sharp increase in forced displacements throughout the world, and in 2015 they reached the highest level ever recorded. 65.3 million people had been uprooted at the end of 2015, compared with 38 million ten years earlier.
In addition to its humanitarian aid programmes, the HCR advocates and works to facilitate the integration of those people seeking international protection into the countries taking them in. Language teaching and ensuring their qualifications and diplomas are recognised, together with other forms of support, help them to integrate into the economic, social and cultural life of the host country. Studies published by the OECD arnd the IMF on this subject show very clearly that refugees do contribute to the economy of a country provided they are given the opportunity to work and to become integrated.
In France, the authorities have given the HCR arole in the asylum process, both as an adviser to the French authorities and with the right to scrutinise the asylum policies that areput in place. The HCR also promotes the reception and integration of refugees into French society in partnership with a variety of organisations and associations. The HCR thus encourages any initiatives developed by citizens to support refugees, and the Refugee Food Festival emerged as part of this spirit of solidarity. Created as part of World Refugees Day in 2016, it helps to encourage the integration of refugees by celebrating their talents and through the resulting encounters and sharing of cultures.
Since then, the Refugee Food Festival concept has developed, festivals have been held in several French and European towns and cities, and the initiative will be featured in the restaurants of Bayeux. As journalists are associated with the HCR on a day-to-day basis, the organisation has decided to join the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents as a partner for the 2017 edition. Its participation will include visits to several schools in order to explain its mission and to organise discussions with school students.

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