OLTRE IL MURO: ARTE e FOTOGRAFIA: VÉRONIQUE DE VIGUERIE

mercoledì 17 luglio 2013

VÉRONIQUE DE VIGUERIE | PHOTOGRAPHER

Véronique de Viguerie is a French photographer based in Paris. Having completed a master’s degree in law, she traveled to England to study photojournalism. She then spent three years living and working in Afghanistan and, since 2006, has been covering stories around the world, including in Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, India, Bangladesh, Israel, Kashmir, Cameroon, Algeria, and Guatemala. De Viguerie takes on challenging assignments and personal projects in some of the most dangerous places on the planet, often working with her French journalist friend and colleague Manon Querouil.
De Viguerie’s work is regularly published in Newsweek, The New York Times, Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Figaro Magazine, Marie Claire, The Guardian, and La Repubblica, and has been printed in countless other titles. In summer 2008, she shot a cover story for Paris Match in Afghanistan, attracting international attention, on a group of Taliban militants who had ambushed and killed French troops. She followed this up that autumn with a feature on pirates in Somalia, completed just as the topic began to make the headlines around the world. The completed pirate project has subsequently been published in over 40 titles in over 20 countries around the world.
Among her numerous accolades, De Viguerie can count a best war photo reportage award at the 2010 Bayeux Festival, a World Press Photo award, and the Canon Prize for a Female Photojournalist, at the 2006 Perpignan festival. That year, she also released her first book, Regards Croises, about Afghanistan. In 2011, she published Carnets de Reportages du XXIe siecle, with journalist Manon Querouil.

© UNICEF-NYHQ2011-0455 - Veronique de Viguerie. PhotodeclarationLake

KUAJOK, SOUTHERN SUDAN-MARCH, 2011- A malnutrition clinic set up under a tree and supported by UNICEF treats 6-month-old orphan twins Majak and Mayam who are severely malnourished.

In Okugayu local population is very poor, despite the fact that this area is oil. They have no electricity, water, roads. Besides, they can no longer catch fish, as well as oil leaked into the river

Monkey shoulder militant movement MEND.

A man collects oil, in order to sell it on the black market.

King Chukumela Nnam Obi Il does not approve the oil companies, which pollute his ownership of oil production, without paying compensation to its people.

Militants led by Atek Tom - the leader of MEND - swim in the camp number 9 - one of 11 camps under the guidance of a leader in the mangrove forests of the Niger River

Un americain lit sur sa base d'operation situee sur la frontiere entre le Pakistan et l'Afghanistan dans la region de Paktika. En operation, il y a beaucoup d'attente alors chacun s'occupe comme il peut.