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Perpignan’s Festival of Photojournalism 2022 – in pictures | Art and design – The Guardian

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  • Men, women and children are housed together at the mental healthcare centre, Avrankou, Benin, 2021

    ‘This ‘is the fourth chapter on freedom lost (after Encerrados, Paco and Prigionieri), continuing my extensive, in-depth study exploring the world of people hidden far from the public gaze’ – Valerio Bispuri

  • Şeyma and her friends on the Kamondo Stairs, Istanbul, Turkey

    ‘Hafiz ‘is my first long-term project and began in 2017. Thanks to the support of the Canon female photojournalist grant (2020), I have been able to develop the project with additional content and images’ – Sabiha Çimen

    Women standing on the Kamondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey

  • Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at the Palace of Versailles, France, 29 May 2017

    ‘I no longer present politics as a comedy; I stopped doing that when I realised that the characters in front of me were from a tragedy’ – Jean-Claude Coutausse

    Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Palace of Versailles.

  • Near Threatened: African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), Kruger national park, South Africa

    ‘My work on The 6th Extinction is intended to raise awareness on the vulnerability of species around the world. The concept is designed to convey the emotional impact by being as close as possible to the animal’ – Alain Ernoult

    Close up of an African buffalo

  • Glacier pilot Leighan Falley puts wing covers on a Turbine Otter at the end of her day

    ‘To Know the Earth from Above frames a pivotal moment in time, telling the stories of pilots who connect remote communities, rescue people in need, teach and inspire newer pilots, and transport people to the wildest parts of the state of Alaska’ – Acacia Johnson

    Glacier pilot Leighan Falley puts wing covers on a Turbine Otter

  • Children watched by their mother play in the shack area of the Stolipinovo ghetto, with their family sheep, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 2020

    ‘The structure of the Stolipinovo ghetto develops around decadent former communist blocks, with improvised houses and shacks around them. Most inhabitants face daily social and housing emergency. My presence did not influence in any way the scene portrayed’ – Selene Magnolia

    Children watched by their mother play with their family sheep

  • Karenni army soldiers crossing the Salween River as they advance towards the front, Kayah State, January 2022

    ‘Despite all odds, over the past year a growing sense of comradeship has spread throughout the population, with what seems like millions in both cities and rural areas rallying to the cause, putting their normal lives on hold to help in one way or another in the struggle for a future free from military rule’ – Siegfried Modola

    Karenni army soldiers crossing the Salween River

  • Taliban fighters in the former police headquarters of the 10th district of the capital, Shahr-e Naw, Kabul, August 2021

    A Forever War Ends looks at the abrupt and humiliating end of America’s longest mission

    Taliban fighters in what was once the police headquarters of the 10th district of Kabul

  • Child in wading pool, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1978

    “Looked at chronologically, from my very first photographic stories in the American South in 1969 till I returned to the Arkansas Delta in 2019 – or thematically: American poverty, the plight of the mentally disabled, the human cost of drugs, of war, a woman’s cancer – it may seem that from the outset I had a part in planning this exhibition, which is not true” – Eugene Richards

    Child in paddling pool

  • Bodybuilders in a half-built building, Mumbai, India, 2017

    ‘India ‘is a nation of bodybuilders, and the local pharmaceutical industry has abundant supplies of growth hormones and steroids to sell. The irony is that the theatrical display of virility has no strength behind it. The muscles are to be seen, but otherwise quite useless. Shrunken testicles and impotence are just two of the side-effects of steroids’ Journalist Arnaud Robert and photographer Paolo Woods travelled the world for five years seeking ‘happy pills’, drugs able to ease pain, to achieve excitement, work, power, and action

    Bodybuilders in a half-built building in Mumbai

  • Whale shark, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti

    The whale shark is the largest fish species in the world, growing up to 18m. It feeds mainly on plankton through a mouth that is 2m wide and can filter up to 2,000 metric tons of water an hour

    A whale shark

  • A few days after the explosion, angry demonstrators took to the streets. It was almost one year after the beginning of the “revolution” on 17 October, 2019

    ‘Some might think the catastrophe that happened in Beirut on 4 August, 2020, and the crisis that hit Lebanon happened from one day to the next, but there had been more than three decades of negligence and corruption flowing through the veins of the nation, bringing the country to its knees’ – Tamara Saadé

    Demonstrators on the streets of Beirut

  • Malian workers cutting and drying up small sharks and rays on the edge of Nouadhibou harbour, Mauritania

    ‘I was told the fins are sent to China for soup, and the meat is sold to Nigeria and Spain. The official annual catch in Mauritania is 900,000 tonnes, but reconstructed catch estimates are more than two metric tonnes’ – George Steinmet

    Malian workers cutting and drying up small sharks and rays on the edge of Nouadhibou Harbour, Mauritania

  • Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government fire a rocket at Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya, August 2016

    ‘From Afghanistan to Africa and from Iraq to Latin America, I have had the chance, and the duty, to encounter the best and the worst of humanity, and to record it for all time. Sometimes it has been dangerous, sometimes it has been beautiful. It has always been interesting’ – Goran Tomašević

    Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government fire a rocket at Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya

  • Migrants attempting to cross the English Channel on a dinghy tossed on the waves between Sangatte and Cap Blanc-Nez off the French coast, August 2020

    Winner of the 2022 ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or award – International Committee of the Red Cross. ‘Since Brexit, with more stringent security checks at Calais and the entrance to the Eurotunnel where migrants hide on board vehicles, more have been attempting to cross on flimsy dinghies. The crossing is fraught with danger and now, after the Mediterranean, the fear is that the Channel could become a new maritime cemetery’ – Sameer Al-Doumy

    Migrants attempting to cross the English Channel on board a dinghy.

  • Gentoo penguins marching up an iceberg on the Weddell Sea

    Over a total of 22 months, international specialists in biology and biogeochemistry together with skilled sailors have spent periods of time on board the schooner Tara, following paths once sailed by famous ships such as the HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board and Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, and going as far as is possible across the planet

    Gentoo penguins marching up an iceberg on the Weddell Sea

  • People shelter from shelling in the basement, Mariupol, Ukraine, 12 March, 2022

    The world would have seen next to nothing at all from Mariupol as the siege set in if it had not been for Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, the Associated Press team who raced to the city of Mariupol when the invasion began and stayed long after it had become one of the most dangerous places on earth

    People shelter from shelling in the basement, Mariupol, Ukraine

  • On an island just a few hours from Brazzaville, nets are used to trap fruit bats, catching up to 150 a day

    ‘At the market, bats sell for between $2 and $4, and demand is high. Customers are told that the “white man” invented the story of bats causing diseases such as Ebola so that people would buy western food. Zoonotic diseases such as Ebola, Covid-19, SARS and monkeypox occur when pathogens pass from wild animals to humans, and can develop into epidemics, or a pandemic’ – Brent Stirton

    A man using a net to trap fruit bats, catching up to 150 a day

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