Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
AWARD YEAR: 2007
AWARD NAME: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2007
RECIPIENT: Cedric GerBeHaye
AFFILIATION: Agence Vu – Newsweek
HONORED WORK: “Congo in Limbo”
Cédric Gerbehaye’s work opens a window on the deadliest place on earth, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 5 million people have died as a result of conflict since 1998. Rebels, foreign armed groups, and the Congolese army all have been responsible for murder, rape, and looting. His images of fear, exhaustion, and terrible resignation are tangible evidence of the peril that literally consumes people in the region. Through Gerbehaye’s eyes we see the singular faces of the smallest of children, abducted and robbed of their future by commanders seeking new “recruits” for war. A barefoot man stands in an overcoat in a puddle-ridden camp for the displaced. The image of renegade general Laurent Nkunda, at-large and wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, is unforgettable, his bravado a symbol of the near total impunity with which those in power operate.
Citation for Excellence:
Moises Saman
Panos for Newsweek
“Gang Warfare”