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 peopleRodrigo Abd (AP), Mani, Alessio Romenzi (Corbis)
“Portraits of enemies"Karim Ben Khelifa
"Bosnia 1992-1995"Curator: Jon Jones
The wrong sideJérôme Sessini - Magnum Photos
L'ExilLa 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