The 30th Bayeux War Correspondent Prize was awarded on Saturday 14 October to Siegfried Modola (photograph, freelance), Anthony Loyd (printed press, The Times), Maurine Mercier (radio, RTS – Franceinfo) and Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé and Natalie Galloné and Etienne Dupont (television, CNN).
They were each rewarded for their reporting in Burma, the Middle East, Ukraine and Haiti, “at the end of debates that were both interesting and difficult,” jury president and photojournalism legend Don McCullin said in the press release is quoted. released during the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening.
Independent Italian-British photographer Siegfried Modola, who entered Burma illegally, where fighting has raged since the February 2021 coup, followed a militia for his report “At the heart of the Burmese rebellion” published in The Globe and Mail.
In the written press, Englishman Anthony Loyd was recognized for “The Forgotten Hostage,” published in The Times.
The Swiss Maurine Mercier, already awarded the Landing Committee Prize in 2022, was awarded in Ukraine for “The double punishment of a mother who was a victim of rape in Boutcha”.
Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé, Natalie Galloné and Etienne Dupont won the television award for a CNN report on the war between gangs and the Haitian police.
The ceremony began with tributes paid to Portal video journalist Issam Abdallah, who was killed while covering the situation in southern Lebanon on Friday, as well as six other journalists from Portal, Al-Jazeera and AFP, including seriously injured photographer Christina Assi and video journalist Dylan Collins.