May 3, 2017 – Caracas, Venezuela – Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP (World Press Photo of teh Year 2018)
AFP Multimedia Exhibition
Venezuela: The Endless Fall traces the crisis in Venezuela through photos and videos as President Maduro took office.
Plunged into an ongoing political conflict wiht international consequences, Venezuela, a country possessing the world’s largest oil reserves, has experienced its worst crisis in modern history for five years. Food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation, crime, economic collapse, the breakdown of basic services, and deteriorating human rights triggered violent protests and an unprecedented exodus of over 10% of the population.
Alongside this exhibition, a “Grand reporters” evening will take place on October 11th, supported by SCAM, titled “Venezuela Between Civil War and Cold War.” Yorman Maldonado, a JRI from the AFP Caracas bureau, and Mehdi Lebouachera,AFPTV’s editor-in-chief,will participate.
The work of AFP photographers also features in collective exhibitions:
– Afghanistan: The World’s Battlefield, in partnership with WARM Foundation, a large retrospective in images since 1978, including one-third of photographs from AFP;
– Gaza: A Population in Distress, proposed by Doctors Without Borders, draws on the work of nine photographers, five of whom are from AFP, including Mahmud Hams, winner of the bayeux-Calvados-normandy Prize in the photo category last year.
October 31, 2018 – Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia – Christopher Grir / AFP
For the third consecutive year, the bayeux Prize, in partnership with AFP and Nikon, invites middle school students in Calvados to revisit the 15-Year-Olds’ View selection during a meeting with a reporter-photographer. More than 11,000 students in 3rd grade classes vote on a dematerialized voting platform for the image that symbolizes the world today, from a selection of 20 AFP images of international news from the last 12 months.
This year, the 15-Year-Olds’ View award went to Alexander Grir for this photo showing starving polar bears in a military landfill in northern Russia.
“Will we have to get used to seeing wandering,hungry polar bears scavenging in the trash? Incursions are becoming more frequent in northern Russia as their habitat and food sources are degraded by climate change and melting ice. We have seen them this year on the outskirts of cities, such as Norilsk, where one of them wandered for several days,” emphasized Marielle Eudes, AFP’s Director of Photography.
The awards ceremony, hosted by Nicolas Poincaré, will take place on Saturday, October 12th, starting at 6:30 PM and will be available live on prixbayeux.org and calvados.fr. Ten prizes will be awarded from among the 50 reports competing in all categories: ten trophies awarded by the international jury chaired by Gary Knight and three special prizes (press, photo, and television).
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