Michel Philippot

It is no surprise that this week’s European Press Review focuses almost exclusively on the vertiginous fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The affair nearly eclipsed all other news: As Michel Philippot emphasizes: “I heard the news (Paris, May 19, 2011, 7:15pm) that a
picture of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in prisoner’s clothes had been published by an American tabloid. As for me, I have decided that I will not run any more pictures of Dominique Strauss-Kahn unless they provide new information. I will be the judge of that…”.

In addition to this trial, the judgment of former Nazi John Demjanjuk, in part responsible for the deaths of 27.900 Jews at the Sobidor concentration camp in 1943, who, given his advanced age, was sentenced to a 5 year prison term. Nevertheless, Michel Philippot reminds us that “The Sobidor martyrs didn’t have that kind of like, whether Young or old.”

Michel Philippot also provides homage this week to photographers Tim Hetherington and <strong<Chris Hondros. Among the pictures selected, those that marked history, Hondros’ picture of a young 5 year old crying over his parents killed in Iraq, or the last pictures taken by Tim Hetherington with his cell phone.

In this maelstrom of tragic events, there is also Cannes, one of the world’s most exposed events along with the Soccer World Cup! Michel Philippot selected a picture by Eric Gaillard that ran in the Guardian where we see the legs of the actors and actresses of Maïwenn’s movie, Polisse, as well as a picture by Denis Rouvre that ran in Le Monde.