AFD / Nikon Prize for the Best Web Documentary: team project “ReBuilding Haiti”. Florent Maurin / The Pixel Hunt, Jean Abbiatteci, Perceval Barrier, Pierre Morel, Gilles Boisson, Bérénice Froger. Author of the photos – Pierre Morel.
Prize: Nikon D750 digital SLR camera and AF-S 24-120 mm lens (worth EUR 2,900)
“ReBuilding Haiti” is a multimedia fiction report that looks at the development challenges facing Haiti. This report started after the January 12th 2010 earthquake and explains the real challenges of the country: rural exodus, slum growth, brain drain, agriculture crisis, deforestation…
Through this innovative format – an interactive fiction, a newsgame – this report aims to give Internet users a better understanding of the mechanisms and difficulties of development. The objective is also to refute a fatalistic discourse and show the viewer-Internet user that the poverty situation experienced by Haiti (but also in other countries in the world) is not a curse and has nothing irreversible about it.
Pierre Morel is 26 and lives and works between Paris and Le Petit Abergement. He became a photojournalist after having studied at the EMI-CFD School of Media and Information in 2008. For Pierre, photography is a means of engagement and activism. He has already worked with several media companies and firms in France and abroad.
http://apps.rue89.com/haiti/
http://www.pierremorel.net/
http://www.afd.fr
