Special envoy to Perpignan
The war in Ukraine has brought tragedy back to Europe.
She also recalled the essential role of photojournalists in the field, of their quest for truth, too often at the cost of blood, abuses of the profession, too.
Until September 11, the 34 edition of Visa pour l'image, the international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, obviously devotes a large part of its exhibitions to the conflict.
For twenty days, from the start of the Russian invasion, they were the only eyes in the world on the agony of Mariupol.
The Ukrainians Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov, of the American agency Associated Press (AP), 34 and 37 years old, tell in Perpignan
"the hell"
of the city located at the edge of the sea of Azov.
This bleeding pregnant woman on a stretcher, leaving the bombed maternity ward, who will lose her child and succumb to her injuries, this 18-month-old baby, mortally wounded by a bombardment, the bodies piled up in the mass graves… Legends twist…
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