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Concerned Photographers
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World-renowned for
the excellence of his reportages from war zones, photographer
Eric Bouvet is an unassuming Frenchman, who began his career
with the Keystone agency in Paris. He worked for Gamma for
eight years, before turning freelance in 1990. Winner of several
World Press Photo Awards, Eric received the top prize (Visa
d'Or) at the International Festival of Photojournalism in
Perpignan for his most recent coverage of the war in Chechnya,
which also gained him the Paris Match Prize and the Bayeux
Prize for War Correspondents.
A familiar face on the battlefield, Eric Bouvet has covered
numerous ICRC operations, from Angola to Afghanistan.
He has made a selection of photos from his portfolio for Red
Cross, Red Crescent. These images and his commentary remind
us that even in the midst of fratricidal wars, the family
remains the foundation of society - so precious, yet so vulnerable.
Jean-François
Beerger
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Chechnya, August 1996
"Trapped for a week in the centre of Grozny, together
with four other photographers, I went from cellar to cellar
to shelter from the unremitting bombardment and the sniper-ridden
streets. At 7 a.m., the firing stopped. At 8 a.m., the Russians
collected their dead in aluminium sheets. At 9 a.m., the two
factions were sharing a smoke. At 10 a.m., the seemingly impossible
happened: civilians began to emerge... It was the last day
of this war."
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Somalia, 1992
"It was in the desert, a no-man's land. Two stones were
all they had with which to cut the baby's umbilical cord.
I handed them my knife. After ten days with the living dead
in Baidoa, I was heartened to witness this birth..."
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Afghanistan, 1994
"A woman from Kabul covers her child with her burka to
protect him from the rain. She is fleeing the city ravaged
by fighting between the rival factions of the communist Dostom,
the fundamentalist Hekmatyar and the then government of Massoud."
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993
"This scene of a father crossing the infamous 'Sniper
Alley' is sadly only too familiar."
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