2017 visual
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.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will be a partner of the 24th edition
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.
Developments in the “15-Year Olds’ Perspective” (Regard des jeunes de 15 ans) scheme.
17th of July, 2016 - Nice, France – People pay tribute to 85 dead and more than 400 wounded victims of the July 14th attack on the 'Promenade des Anglais'.
Valéry HACHE / AFP
Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds: national measures dedicated to secondary school students
Among a collection of photographs carefully chosen by the AFP (Agence France-Presse), each depicting currents affairs over the last 12 months, students vote/are voting for the picture that comes closer to representing our world today. This activity takes place within the schools, at the beginning of the school year. Thanks to an online platform created by Nikon, secondary school students from all over the country can vote online, giving to this project a true perspective!
New this year is a day of exchanges with AFP based on the photos selected for the competition. Three discussion sessions will be organised on Tuesday 3 October with secondary school students who have taken part in the vote. The aim is to foster a real discussion with AFP about the profession of photojournalism and the analysis of images.
The results of the votes by all the secondary school students will be announced during the course of this day.
Nikon’s centenary
Nikon will once again organise 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. NOOR and Nikon have shared a common vision since the beginning of their association, which is reflected by the work of the NOOR Foundation: working together to promote ethical, humanist photojournalism through group projects produced by NOOR photographers, and at the same time helping talented emerging photojournalists to develop their skills. This is achieved by sharing professional best practices and enabling thm to benefit from the experience of photographers who are internationally recognised for their talent and commitment.
The Bayeux-Calvados Award, NOOR and Nikon are preparing more surprises and exclusive activities to celebrate these two anniversaries, which will be announced in due course. Stay tuned !
The Bayeux-Calvados Award receives active support from the Normandy Region
The Normandy Region, land of freedom, is delighted to join the town of Bayeux and the Calvados Department Council in supporting the 23rd edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award which pays tribute to war journalism each year.
The fact that it takes place in Bayeux, the first town in France to be liberated from Nazism during the D-Day landings in 1944, gives special meaning to the event.
Out of this historic period, still an important part of our collective memory, Normandy has developed values which it is important to pass on, especially to the younger generation, and this is why the Region specifically supports the educational focus of the event.
Thanks to the Normandy Region Award selected by high school students of the Normandy region, the special Bayeux Award classes and visits by journalists to local high schools which are organised in the framework of the event, hundreds of young people from the five Departments of Normandy are able to participate in the event and bring the idea of freedom to life.
The promotion of our values is also reflected by a major event on the theme of peace, being organised at the behest of the Normandy Region. In 2018, after a preliminary edition this year, an international forum entitled “Normandy for Peace” will bring ordinary citizens and prominent figures together, in parallel with the D-Day commemorations, to debate and examine the nature of peaceful values and to define together what actions need to be taken to strengthen and protect them.
Hervé Morin, Président de la Région Normandie.
[Audio] The African Great Lakes
In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, the turmoil which shakes the Great Lakes region of Africa involves 9 countries.
This war that has been going on for over 18 years is the result of various factors: the weakness of the Congo State, the Army of Rwanda, old colonial frontiers, poverty lead by ethnic tensions, natural resources, overpopulation of the Great Lake region, the militarization of the informal economy, the world’s demand for natural resources, the instability in Burundi and the helplessness of the United Nation.
The toll is heavy: in twenty year, 6 million people are dead, some 4 millions have fled their countries, refugee camps are saturated and hundreds of thousands are now impoverished. The populations do not succumb to the bombs. They die of diseases and hunger. Rapes and destruction of social fabrics have become the new weapons of war.
Violence is now monetized.
How do we explain the mutism of the international community? How come a toll of 6 million dead does not cause a collective outrage? How come current affairs deliberately omit this tragedy that is happening right under our noses when international correspondent relentlessly work to shed the light on this catastrophe?
Followed by a reception prepared and animated by Eric Valmir (France Inter), Jean-Philippe Rémy (Le Monde) and Justine Brabant..
Crédit photo : Matej Leskovsek
[Audio] Jim: The James Foley Story
On Thanksgiving Day 2012, American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley was kidnapped in Syria, two years before the infamous video of his public execution introduced much of the world to ISIS.
JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY, directed by close childhood friend Brian Oakes, tells the story of Jim’s life through intimate interviews with his family, friends and fellow journalists – while former hostages reveal never-before-heard details of his captivity with a chilling intimacy that reveals their courageous untold story of perseverance.
Made with unparalleled access (including footage Foley shot himself), and using carefully rendered recreations, Oakes takes viewers deep into the darkness and valor of Jim’s captivity. What emerges is a powerful chronicle of bravery, compassion and pain at the dawn of America’s war with ISIS.
With Nicole Tung and Didier Francois
Credit photo : Matej Leskovsek
[Audio] Le Siège
2016 Fipa d’Or award winning documentary takes you deep into the daily life of sarajevan populations. A tale of horrors mixed with the urgency to live.
Sarajevo lived through the longest siege in modern history. “The Siege” is a film about those who lived through it, about the human experience of the besieged. Through Sarajevo to beyond, it is the story of a surrounded city, of a battle and resistance. It is also the universal story of civilization facing the worst ordeal of its existence, and the struggle for its survival. Sarajevo resisted and survived. “The Siege” describes a vertiginous descent into war.
Documentary written by Rémy Ourdan.
Directed by Rémy Ourdan and Patrick Chauvel.
Credit photo : Matej Leskovsek
LES BOAT-PEOPLE DE LA GRANDE BLEUE
Edouard Elias expose son reportage « les boat-people de la Grande Bleue » à l’espace d’art culturel Le Radar à Bayeux, jusqu’au 6 novembre.
Réalisées en argentique, les photos ont été prises à bord de « l’Aquarius », un bateau affrété au large de la Libye par l’ONG SOS Méditerranée.
© CAPA / Prix Bayeux Calvados des correspondants de guerre – 2016
Remember : All freedoms start with the freedom of speach
“Rappelez-vous : toutes les libertés naissent avec la liberté d’expression”
Il y a 10 ans, la journaliste d’investigation russe de Novaîa Gazetta Anna Politkovskaïa était assassinée à Moscou. Son ancienne élève, collègue et amie Elena Milashina est venue à Bayeux cette année pour honorer sa mémoire et rappeler que la liberté d’expression est, en Russie comme ailleurs, un combat sans relâche.
© CAPA / Prix Bayeux Calvados des correspondants de guerre – 2016
GAZA, THE AFTERMATH by Virginie Nguyen Hoang
From July 2014 to February 2016, the Belgian photojournalist Virginie Nguyen Hoang went to Gaza five times. She was there during the Summer 2014 War and decided to return to Gaza in order to relate the reconstruction of the strip through the daily life of four families.
Virginie Nguyen Hoang got involved in the daily life of four families in order to visually report their life and their fight to rediscover a peaceful life.
© CAPA / Prix Bayeux Calvados des correspondants de guerre – 2016
2016 Bayeux-Calvados Festival : The complete ceremony
The Bayeux Calvados awards ceremony for war correspondents took place on Saturday, the 8th of October. Ten trophies were awarded, honoring the work of these journalists.
Watch the full ceremony here:
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The Bayeux Calvados awards ceremony for war correspondents took place on Saturday, the 8th of October. Ten trophies were awarded, honoring the work of these journalists.
Watch the full ceremony here:
23rd edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award : results
Fifty 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), web journalism 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 Jean-Claude Guillebaud, the international jury of the 23rd edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict…
“Since I was part of the jury that selected this year’s nominees, I was aware that the choice of the international jury would be a particularly difficult one in the light of the quality of the articles and reports in competition. The final result is absolutely astounding. I am all the more appreciative of this award given that it rewards war correspondents of all media. The Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents offers a panoramic view of our profession. And this is what makes this award so unique and precious.”
Jean-Claude Guillebaud
PHOTO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY NIKON
1st Prize
annis BEHRAKIS
REUTERS
Les persécutés
GREECE
As the sun rises a dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down while traveling from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Kos, August 11, 2015. A Greek coast guard responded to distress signals and arrived at the scene to help.
2nd Prize
Hassan GHAEDI
SIPA
Guerre en Irak : opération Al-Bashir
IRAQ
3rd Prize
Abd DOUMANY
AFP
Hôpital de fortune à Douma
SYRIA
TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARDED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
1st Prize
Arnaud COMTE and Stéphane GUILLEMOT
FRANCE 2
Mossoul : fuir à tout prix
IRAQ
2nd Prize
Clarissa WARD and Bilal Abdul KAREEM
CNN
Témoin d’une frappe aérienne
SYRIA
3e Prix
Alex CRAWFORD and Garwen MCLUCKIE
SKY NEWS
De la Turquie à la Grèce
TURKEY – GREECE
PHOTO TROPHY – PUBLIC’S CHOICE AWARD
SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (AFD)
1st Prize
Yannis BEHRAKIS
REUTERS
Les persécutés
GREECE
As the sun rises a dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down while traveling from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Kos, August 11, 2015. A Greek coast guard responded to distress signals and arrived at the scene to help.
TELEVISION TROPHY – REGIONAL PRIZE FOR STUDENTS AND TRAINEES OF NORMANDY
1st Prize
Virginie NGUYEN HOANG and Dastane ALTAÏR
PAC PRESSE for FRANCE 4
War is a bitch
UKRAINE
WEB JOURNALISM TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY NIKON
1st Prize
Guillaume HERBAUT and Paul OUAZAN
ARTE
Ukraine : carnet de route d’un photographe
UKRAINE
PRINT TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS
1st Prize
Wolfgang BAUER
DIE ZEIT
“I’ve become someone else. Someone I no longer recognize”
NIGERIA
2nd Prize
Tristan MCCONNELL
FOREIGN POLICY
Fermer les yeux et faire semblant d’être morts
KENYA
3rd Prize
Anthony LOYD
THE TIMES
Reports on the fight against Islamic State
IRAQ – SYRIA – AFGHANISTAN
RADIO TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY THE D-DAY LANDING COMMITTEE
1st Prize
Jeremy BOWEN
BBC NEWS
Yemen
YEMEN
2nd Prize
Hugh SYKES
BBC NEWS
Tunisia’s anti-isis rappers
TUNISIA
3rd Prize
Omar OUAHMANE
FRANCE INTER
12 jours dans la vie d’un réfugié
TURKEY – GREECE – MACEDONIA – SERBIA – CROATIA – HUNGARY – AUSTRIA
YOUNG REPORTER TROPHY (PHOTO) – INTERNATIONAL JURY
SPONSORED BY CAPA PRESSE TV
1st Prize
Mohammed BADRA
EPA
La Syrie, ceux qui restent
SYRIA
A Syrian boy mops the floor of a morgue next to a man who died in an airstrikes carried out by forces loyal to the Syrian government in the rebel-held area of Douma, outskirts of Damascus, Syria, 04 December 2015. Douma has been consistently attacked throughout the nearly five year Syrian civil war, leading to the deaths of scores of civilians.
GRAND FORMAT TELEVISION TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
AWARDED BY SCAM
1st Prize
Ayman OGHANNA and Warzer JAFF
VICE
Road to Fallujah
IRAQ
VIDEO IMAGE TROPHY – INTERNATIONAL JURY
SPONSORED BY GALAXIE / FRANCE 24 / ARTE
1st Prize
Roméo LANGLOIS
FRANCE 24
À l’assaut du “califat”
SYRIA
PRINT TROPHY – OUEST-FRANCE – JEAN MARIN
1st Prize
Célia MERCIER
XXI
Passeurs de vie
IRAQ
The wandering refugees across Europe
In 2015, they were more than a million seeking shelter in Europe, forced out of their homes by conflict and persecution; mostly from Syria and Irak, but also from the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
For this open-air exhibition in the center of the city, the AFP photographers tell their journey, and sometimes their woes.
© CAPA / Prix Bayeux Calvados des correspondants de guerre – 2016
The sound of War
À travers l’immersion dans les ambiances sonores de d’Irak, d’Iran, de Gaza, de Libye, de Centrafrique, l’exposition veut stimuler l’imaginaire et nous forcer à convoquer nos propres images.
Au fil de la scénographie, il retrace aussi l’élaboration d’un reportage, de la matière brute du tournage à la diffusion.
Il raconte enfin l’évolution des outils techniques depuis 30 ans, et leur impact sur la prise de son et les conditions de tournage.
Commissaires d’exposition – Jean-Marc Four (France Inter) et Jean-Marie Porcher (Radio France)
© CAPA / Prix Bayeux Calvados des correspondants de guerre – 2016