For 30 years, he was at the head of a group of photographers hunting for scoops. They made the covers of the world’s biggest magazines. Then the meticulous manager of Sygma’s interests was carried away, not by the revolution he had anticipated, but by his weakness.

13.05.2013[ read full story ]

Judge Van Ruymbeke from the financial division of the Court of Paris recently made headlines during the affaire Cahuzac (named after the former official of the French Ministry of Finance). He also has on his desk a less publicized case: the end of the Sygma agency. It is the story ...

13.05.2013[ read full story ]

It was an evening in May forty years ago, 1973. Disgruntled photographers from the Gamma agency decided to haul away their archives to open a new agency, Sygma. From the schism and the competition that ensued (complicated by a third agency, Sipa), the Golden Age of French Photojour...

13.05.2013[ read full story ]

On March 19, 2013, three judges of the Court of Appeal of Paris ordered the photographer Marie-Laure de Decker to pay Gamma-Rapho 5000€ in addition to the 5000€ she had already been sentenced to pay them. The decision was deemed outrageous by the plaintiff, her friends and many photojo...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

The Commercial Court of Paris saved Sipa Press photo agency , brought into bankruptcy on November 22, 2013, following the disappearance of its German shareholders, owners of the troubled agency DAPD. The court approved the takeover bid of Miguel Ferro, CEO of the UK agency Rex Feat...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

The French daily newspaper Le Monde has “inadvertently” destroyed ten years of slides and negatives taken by Argentinian photographer Daniel Mordzinski a statement issued on Wednesday apologize for the mistake. The photographer had been using an o...

21.03.2013[ read full story ]

On Thursday, February 28th, 2013, the candidates in the taking over of Sipa Press presented their offers to the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris. The court described their offers as “poor” and gave the candidates another week to improve their proposals. On November 9, 2012, Olivi...

06.03.2013[ read full story ]

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, the French photographer Olivier Voisin wrote a long email to an Italian journalist friend, where he described his reporting in Syria. The day after, Voisin was seriously wounded. On Sunday, it was announced that he died of his wounds in a Turkish ...

25.02.2013[ read full story ]

What drives photographers to risk their lives reporting on violence on the other side of the world? Their reasons are often complex, a combination of personal and political conviction, a desire to go beyond impersonal abstraction: “War, Battle, Death.” They all a...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

“For personal reasons, I am stepping down from my position as Artistic Director of the Festival Photoreporter in Baie de Saint-Brieuc. I would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported me,” wrote Didier Rapaud on Monday, February 18, 2013. Reached by telephone, the fo...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]