A friend had advised to have the films I had shot in Koweit processed in the new E6 lab of Sipa press in the Rue Roquepinne in Paris (1978). While I was looking at the results on one of the light table, a man leaned over my shoulder and looked at colorful slides of Bedouin’s...

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Let's make the most of the death of Sipa to praise his sense of timing.
ounce more a wink at history as a cliché of cyclops, giant with a telescope. He died the same day as Steve Jobs, is it really happenstance ? A rendezvous ? They will surely keep company on the road to...

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Every day for more than thirty years I passed by your office on my way home to say, “Goodbye, Göksin.” Your office was the heart of SIPA. We spent three-quarters of our time there. For me it was the center of the world! With its three telephones and ten televisions set permanently...

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It’s difficult not to feel deeply moved by the passing of Göksin Sipahioglu, founder of SIPA Press and one of photojournalism’s great adventurers. Others called him “Sipa” but his photographers, even those who no longer worked for him, called him “Papa” and always spoke of him wit...

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How many memories disappear with him ? It is a whole part of photographic history that disappears. It is sad, very sad. The sound of coins for the coffee machine that he sometimes used to finance a photographer’s travels to the other side of the world can be heard jingling i...

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I am really sure of something Goksin we are going to miss you. There are many, many of us who came to see you and asked for something that had to do with the job of photography. Most of the time we were young with limited experience when we had one. To offer to go on reportage ...

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Göksin Sipahioglu evokes for me that imposing presence worthy of deference, not only for his allure, his imposing height – 6ft tall – and his age – 30 years my senior – but also for his human qualities. This great press agency leader was above all a militant journalist at heart, an...

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His family name conjured the image of the spahi, the soldiers who went to war on horseback. His towering, lordly, sinewy stature made him a natural leader, both in the newsroom and on the basketball court.

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Göksin distributed roles with his long fingers. It’s difficult to remember his words. It was in making the impressive list of those whose lives he transformed by giving them a chance (photographers, editors, writers) that we realize what a great photographic press leader he was, w...

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I suffered great pain, very great pain, when Didier Rapaud announced the loss of Göksin Sipahioglu on Wednesday morning.
A very generous man, with immeasurable patience who welcomed me in August 1980 after six months of hell in Bangkok and who believed in me.

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