The 30th Bayeux War Correspondents Prize was awarded on Saturday October 14 to Siegfried Modola (photo, freelance), Anthony Loyd (written press, The Times), Maurine Mercier (radio, RTS – France Info) and Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé, Natalie Galloné and Etienne Dupont (television, CNN).
They were awarded respectively for reporting in Burma, the Middle East, Ukraine and Haiti, “at the end of debates that were both interesting and difficult”according to the president of the jury and photojournalism legend Don McCullin, cited by the press release published during the Bayeux Calvados-Normandie awards ceremony on Saturday evening.
Independent Italian-British photographer Siegfried Modola, who illegally entered Burma where fighting has raged since the February 2021 putsch, followed a militia for his report “At the heart of the Burmese rebellion”published in the Globe and Mail.
In the written press, the Englishman Anthony Loyd was rewarded For “The Forgotten Hostage” In The Times.
The Swiss Maurine Mercier, already rewarded with the landing committee prize in 2022, was awarded for “The double punishment of a mother victim of rape in Boutcha”in Ukraine.
Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Lainé, Natalie Galloné and Etienne Dupont won the television prize for a report on the war between gangs and the Haitian police broadcast on CNN.
At the start of the ceremony, tribute was paid to Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah, killed Friday while covering the situation in southern Lebanon, as well as six other journalists from Reuters, Al-Jazeera, and AFP, including seriously injured photographer Christina Assi and fellow video journalist Dylan Collins.