Ukraine-Gaza: inter arma, civilians
“Inter arma caritas”: charity in the midst of war. However dated, the Red Cross motto still guides this organisation. There is another constant in war, one that goes back long...
The invisible
Bertrand Gaudillère was a university student when he first grasped the power of documentary photography. During France’s university strikes in 1995, he helped set up a newspaper. He and a...
Ethical considerations around the use of humanitarian imagery
The growth of social media has reduced the world to a “global village” in which images travel fast and far. When they feature vulnerable people, the impact can be disastrous....
Afghanistan: eternal turmoil
At the age of 25, having studied art and photography at Université Paris 8, Sandra Calligaro travelled to Kabul to fulfil her teenage dream of becoming a war correspondent. Having...
The place of the child in humanitarian action and communication: moving away from the cliché of childhood as icon
Valérie Gorin • Senior lecturer and researcher at the Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Geneva (University of Geneva and Graduate Institute) and member of the Humanitarian Alternatives Editorial Board Co-editor of...
“The portrayal of humanitarianism has, to say the least, dramatically changed in 50 years”
Entretien avec Pierre Micheletti et Bruno-Georges David From pictures of famished children in Biafra to those of victims of the Sulawesi tsunami, have portrayals of humanitarianism changed very much? Above...
“1919 was ‘year zero’ for internationalism”
In October 2018, the workshop “Humanitarian Photojournalism: A History of the Present” was organised at Princeton University. The main goal of this event was to think about “the connections between the...
“Afghan Stories: Waiting for Hope” by Sandra Calligaro
After studying art and photography at the University of Paris 8, Sandra Calligaro oriented her career to the field reporting and went to Afghanistan for the first time in 2007....
Interview with Bruno Cabanes : “Humanitarian Photography”: an historian’s point of view
Bruno Cabanes is an historian, specialised in contemporary history. He is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Military History at Ohio State University in the United States....
Yemen: living with bombs and landmines
All credits and legends : © Agnès Varraine-Leca/MSF Four years of war, with more than 19,000 air strikes by the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates-led coalition and conservative estimates suggest...
Unsung heroes, Breaking the silence
Unsung Heroes is a joint endeavour undertaken by Denis Rouvre and Médecins du Monde. This photography project “arose from the desire shared with Médecins du Monde to bear witness to the violence...
In the closed door of Eastern Ghouta
Abdulmonam Eassa was born in Damascus in 1995. Until early 2018 he was based in Hammouria, Eastern Ghouta, in the agricultural countryside near Damascus, 13 km north-east of the capital. When...