Exclusively on La Lettre, is the list of photographers selected for the first Photoreporter festival in Saint Brieuc. The winners will receive a grant to help them complete their projects. Festival director Didier Rapaud sent us the following text:
“I had the most terrible dream!
I was in a forest, surrounded by trees, and the trees were speaking to me—no, screaming at me:
“You only chose your pet photographers. It’s always the same, shame on you!”
“No, I didn’t vote! I’ve got nothing to do with it, I swear!”
But they wouldn’t hear it, and kept on,
“And you don’t even have the money you promised the photographers”
My awful dream turned into a nightmare… and I woke up with a jump:
I told myself that trees can’t speak, and if those weren’t trees, then they couldn’t have been people from the photography world, because everyone knows: in our profession, nobody holds a grudge. End of story.
I couldn’t respond to every photographer who asked me why they weren’t selected because I couldn’t reveal what went on behind closed doors in the jury room. But starting in June I’ll be taking applications for next year’s festival, which should be much more precise. I hope that we’ll break this year’s record of 300 projects by 280 photographers. So, make way for your ideas and dreams. Thank you everyone.”
The jury was presided over by Jean François Leroy, director of Visa pour l’image. Its other members were Ruth Eichorn, photo director of Geo Germany, and Guillaume Clavieres, photo director of Paris Match. They met on January 20 at the request of the director of the Photoreporter Festival, which will take place from October 19 to November 11, 2012.
They made their selection from 300 projects submitted by photographers across the world, taking into account both the value of the proposed subject and the budget requested for its realization.
In the end, 15 projects were selected:
Jim BRANDENBURG: Man and nature on the french brittany coast
Gary KNIGHT: Immigration topographica
Ami VITALE: Kashmir, Watching the second hand of a clock
Cedric GERBEHAYE: Ma Belgique
Patrick ROBERT: Mercenaires en mer
Olivier JOBARD: La vie à durée déterminée
Claudine DOURY: Des états baltes à la Russie ; les nuits blanches
ZENG: Retour au barrage des 3 gorges
Gwenn DUBOURTHOUMIEU: Les mangeurs de cuivre
Tomas Van HOUTRYVE: Off the radar ou la population sacrifiée des îles Marshall
Antoine GYORI: La face noire de la Russie de Poutine
Pierre TERDJMAN: Israel ; United we were strong
Gael TURINE: L’Inde et son mur de la honte
Sonia NAUDY: Prisons pour femme en Afghanistan
Pierre Yves MARZIN: Mexique ; Une police indigène héroique et incorruptible
