It was 8/10 am this wednesday morning when the founder of Sipa Press passed away at the American Hospital In Neuilly sur Seine near Paris. Goksin Sipahioglu was born on december 28th 1926 In Izmir Turkey. He was a journalist for many years and in 1973 created Sipa ...

05.10.2011[ read full story ]

Every year in the small French city of Bayeux, on the northern Normandy coastline, a few miles from the beaches where so many men perished in an effort to save Europe and the world from Nazi barbarism, the City of Bayeux and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) came together to honor the memory o...

13.10.2011[ read full story ]

The name of Jacques Régent will forever remain engrained in the French photographic memory and most particularly to the Rencontres d’Arles. His commitment to the profession laid on the solid pillars of the Ecole Louis Lumière, class of 1963, before he joined the company of ...

14.09.2011[ read full story ]

David Friend wrote Watching the world in 2006, 5 years after the attacks on WTC. It is reprinted this year. He had wanted the time to have a global view, to analyze with surgical precision the images of 9/11 a recommended read, it makes one think.

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

History for an international reporter is not always on the other side of the world. It can also be just around the corner. Gilles Peress one of the great concerned photographer of the XXth century photographed the unthinkable a few feet from his doorstep in New York City.

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

Bill Biggart was the only journalist casualty in the 9/11 tragedy of the collapse of the World Trade Center. He became a photographer very early in life. On that day he was carrying three cameras one of them digital, he had just bought. Unknowingly he covered the l...

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

The New York Times journalists started the obituaries of the 1910 victims of the attack of World Trade Center by sorting out a pile of posters of the missing. In the book we have some pictures, the portraits of the deceased, and mostly heartfelt texts to their memories.

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

Here is New York with a thousand pictures succeed more than most. Two buildings on fire are spewing thick smoke, in a final gesture of despair a man jumps, down below people are horrified they look haggard helpless, cover their mouth to hold a cry, their face in disbelief. The pictures are n...

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

Ten years after, on this occasion ICP in New York present an exhibition that commemorates the day mixing photography and video. The museum chose exclusively to show the impact of the event on the town and on the population .No sensational pictures, this homage to the New Yorkers will not bring ...

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

24 hours after the event the newspaper is exceptionally rich with many on the scene interviews, with analysis, drawings. Photography plays a major part on. Jim Wilson assignment editor on that day tells us about his sept 11th and of the capacity to react of the teams of th...

09.09.2011[ read full story ]