Wednesday, September 5

17h00 – Daniel Barroy, a photography an official from the French Ministry of Culture, is a nice guy. Last night, I made the mistake of telling him that I would be attending the debate-conference at the Observatoire du Photjournalisme. Founded last year by French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand, ''Culture minister in the preceding conservative government'' presided by journalist Jacques Hémon. There are about fifty people in the Salle Jean-Claude Rolland of the Palais des Congrès, which could easily hold ten times more. It doesn’t start off well.

Serge Challon, founder and former director of the agency Editing, chooses his words carefully. I prefer to leave because the subject distresses me so deeply. Crisis or not, internet or not, for the past forty years, publishers have been saying the same thing: the press if facing a crisis, so the social charges that companies pay should be reduced! Since they’ve opened the floor to suggestions, I propose that arms dealers be taxed to finance the war correspondents who will witness first-hand the damage they inflict.

18h00 – Back to reality and the agency stands. At Sipa, Fehrit Duzyol offers us baklava from one of the finest bakeries in Istanbul. Here’s looking at you, Göksin Sipahioglu.

Thursday September 6

11h00 – Massoud Hossaini answer the questions of Pascale Bourgaux in the Salle Charles Trenet at Palais des Congrès. Hossaini is a young Afghan photographer working for the AFP in Kabul. On December 6, 2011, he photographed the aftermath of a mosque bombing that killed 70 people and wounded 250. Hossaini was among the wounded.

14h30 – Before heading back to the hotel to write this, I give a kiss to Emilie Blachère, Rémi Ochlik’s companion. “I came last night to see the exhibition Jean-François put together as a tribute to Rémi... But it’s so hard for me every time I see his face again.”

It is for all of us, Emilie.

Read the full text of Michel Puech’s diary on the French version of Le Journal.