Benoît Gysembergh was cremated at the Père Lachaise cemetery yesterday morning. All of Paris Match and the world of French photojournalism came to pay a final tribute to this wonderful, tender, gifted, elegant and funny man. Excerpts from Keith Jarrett's Köln concert punctuated the spee...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

Paris Match has lost one of its finest photographers. He had that rare quality of knowing how to do everything: war, politics, the magazine, even celebrities. He photographed all of these subjects as if they were works of reportage: no flash, little posing. His eye and keen sense o...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

On Friday, May 3, Paris Match reporter Benoît Gysembergh died of complications from cancer. He was 58. His funeral will be held at the Père Lachaise crematorium in Paris on Monday, May 13. Courageous, generous, discreet: these are the words Benoît Gysembergh’s colleagues used to describe hi...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

The Franco-Quebecois portrait photographer Tshi was found dead in La Rochelle, France. Based in Montreal since 1990, his work appeared in many magazines and newspapers over the last two decades, during which he also produced several album covers. His unique style, which ...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

On March 24 or 25, 2012, Frédéric Huijbregts took his own life, “aware that his illness would gradually rob him of his sight,” according to the Nogent Citoyen newspaper. On March 9, 2013, I discovered his photographs during my research into images of Spain taken in the 1960s,...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

A.B.C. Whipple, who as a magazine reporter helped save an iconic photograph of World War II from the censors, died March 17 in Greenwich, Conn. of pneumonia. He was 94. Mr. Whipple was a Washington correspondent for Life Magazine in 1943, assigned to the new Pentagon, when photographer George ...

20.03.2013[ read full story ]

The body of paparazzo Daniele Lo Presti, 42, was found under a bridge last Friday on a jogging trail in the Testaccio district of Rome. Known for photographing celebrities around the world, including a shot of Brad Pitt in the arms of a lover, Lo Presti was discovered by friends w...

04.03.2013[ read full story ]

Two years ago, art collector and media mogul Daniel Filippachi sat down with us to speak about Willy Rizzo. Here is that interview, first published on December 6, 2010.
In an exclusive audio interview, Daniel Filipacchi share his personal memories of Willy Rizzo and Paris Match.</...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

Willy, You probably don’t remember this, but as a child I used to wander the halls of Paris Match on certain Thursdays. My mother was working there in the offices on the Rue Pierre Charron, and one time you gave me permission to come into the photography department. In that room, saints...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

Do you remember? Last Friday, February 22, 2013, at the initiative of the association A Day Without News, photojournalists around the world paid tribute to Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik, killed one year ago in Syria. This same Friday, a year after their deaths, in a hospital ...

25.02.2013[ read full story ]