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 ]

On November 7, 1956, in Budapest, on a barricade erected to oppose invading Soviet troops, Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini was killed. He was 29 years old and a photographer for Paris Match. That was my earliest memory of a photographer who fell on the battlefield in the name of j...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

Imagine a war without photographs. Imagine a conflict zone where no correspondent ever dared venture. Imagine a humanitarian crisis that came and went without eliciting a flicker of video, not a second of audio, not a single news story, not a lone blogpost. Imagine war crime...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

On February 22nd 2013, the one year anniversary of the deaths of legendary correspondent Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik, is launch the A Day Without News? Campaign. The web site is go live and invite people t...

22.02.2013[ read full story ]

Last year, the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival was a disappointment. There was no clear vision for the festival, far too many exhibitions, high ticket prices, and an overrepresentation of Magnum photographers, who are regularly invited to exhibit or curate (e.g.,...

18.02.2013[ read full story ]