NARCISO CONTRERAS "Libya: A Human Marketplace" Fondation Carmignac | SKIRA

Narciso Contreras "Libya : A Human Marketplace"

Publishers Fondation Carmignac | Editions SKIRA

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Narciso Contreras  Sabha, March 2016

The corpses of illegal sub-Saharan migrants lie in the morgue of Sabha City, after having been collected from the streets and the desert during previous days.

Narciso Contreras  Zawiyah, May 2016

A group of sub-Saharan illegal migrants and refugees is crowded into one section of the Zawiyah detention center, a warehouse-like facility holding as many as two thousand detainees at any time, making it the largest of it's type on Libyan soil. The center serves as a distribution facility in the human trafficking supply chain, and from here inmates are resold to other militias on the west coast of Libya.

Narciso Contreras  Tajoura, May 2016

Sub-Saharan illegal migrants and refugees on the Tajoura shore after having been arrested in the Mediterranean Sea by the Libyan coastguard. 

Narciso Contreras  Surman, June 2016

Illegal female migrants queue in the prison yard as they are loaded on to buses to be transferred to another detention center, after having been sold by the militia group ruling the Surman detention center in the west of Libya.

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I just received a powerful new monograph from the Fondation Carmignac on the theme of Libya by Mexican photographer, Narciso Contreras, the 7th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. It is an elegantly designed and produced book co-published by Fondation Carmignac with Editions Skira, Paris and printed in Belgium. The overall book, beautifully typeset on magnificent paper, belies the dangerous situations Contreras put himself in to bring us this ongoing chronicle documenting the brutal reality of human trafficking as he traveled through the complex tribal society of post-Gaddafi Libya from February to June 2016.

"Contreras lays bare an unfolding humanitarian crisis in which illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are at the mercy of militias who exploit them for financial gain. Held in detention centres for illegal migrants, they are subjected to inhumane conditions. He weaves a compelling narrative to show how, instead of being a place of transit for migrants on their way to Europe, Libya has actually become a trafficking market where people are bought and sold on a daily basis. He provides us with a glimpse of the complex and horrifying context migrants are faced with."

 Narciso Contreras,

7th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award
"Libya: A Human Marketplace"

Texts by Narciso Contreras and Ela Stapley

Hard Cover, 102 pages, English+French

ISBN 978-2-37074-043-4

Publications Fondation Carmignac

Production: Fondation Carmignac, Direction: Gaia Donzet, Carmignac Photojournalism Award Gestion, Direction: Emeric Glayse, Communications manager: Valentine Dolla, Photo Editors: Patrick Baz, Narciso Contreras, Text: Ela Stapley, Photography & Investigation: Narciso Contreras, Publisher: EDITIONS SKIRA, Senior Editor: Nathalie Prat-Couadau, Editorial Coordination: María Laura Ribadeneira

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In 2009, the Fondation Carmignac launched the Carmignac Photojournalism Award with the aim to support, each year, a photojournalist in undertaking a photographic and investigative assignment exploring a theme or an area of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts. Selected by an international jury, the Laureate receives 50,000 EUR that enable him/her to spend time into the field, as well as a fully-financed monograph and a touring exhibition of the project.

Created in 2000 by Edouard Carmignac and directed by Gaïa Donzet, the Fondation Carmignac has three strands: the corporate collection comprising nearly 250 contemporary works of art, the annual Carmignac Photojournalism Award led by Emeric Glayse, and the Foundation's project to open an exhibition space and a sculpture park to the public on the preserved site of Porquerolles (Var). Edouard Carmignac’s desire to share his passion for contemporary art, promote freedom of expression and increase awareness of contemporary world issues led him to the creation of this Foundation.

Upcoming Carmignac Photojournalism Award exhibition: Saatchi Gallery, London, May 16–June 16, 2017

NARCISO CONTRERAS : 7th edition Carmignac Photojournalism Award 2016

Garabuli Detention Centre © Narciso Contreras

for the Fondation Carmignac

EXHIBITION

 

Narciso Contreras

Libya : A Human Marketplace

25 October - 13 November 2016
Hôtel de l’Industrie
4 place Saint-Germain-des-Près -75006 Paris
Monday to Sunday from 11am to 7pm
Special Openings to 10PM:

28 October, 4 November and 11 November 2016
Free admission

In the heart of post-Gaddafi Libya, Contreras lays bare an unfolding humanitarian crisis in which illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are at the mercy of militias who exploit them for financial gain.  Held in detention centres for illegal migrants, they are subjected to inhumane conditions including overcrowding, lack of sanitation and vicious beatings..

Contreras tells how he grappled with complex and at times surreal bureaucracy and logistics, picking his way through areas torn apart by sectarian violence in order to visit detention centre after detention centre.  Frustrated by the government´s unwillingness to grant him access, Contreras was forced to circumnavigate the official channels and cultivate his own contact with people smugglers and tribespeople, which enabled him to understand the reality of trafficking in Libya.

Throughout this report, Contreras weaves a compelling narrative to show how, instead of being a place of transit for migrants on their way to Europe, Libya has actually become a trafficking market where people are bought and sold on a daily basis.

With this report, Narciso Contreras provides us with a glimpse of the complex and horrifying context anonymous migrants face.

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As part of the 2016 Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, Fondation Carmignac has announced the 7th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award has been awarded to Mexican photojournalist Narciso Contreras.

Contreras is an award winning documentary photographer born in Mexico City in 1975. Since 2010 he has been covering a variety of issues and topics in Southern Asia and the Middle East, leading him to focus his work on the humanitarian cost of conflicts, economics and wars. His work intends to contribute building our visual memory of the world he testifies.

His studies in philosophy, photography and visual anthropology led him to live and study in a monastery in India while photographing religious communities. Since then, Narciso has photographed under reported issues like the ethnic war in Myanmar and the forgotten war in Yemen as well as some of the major current events like the political upheavals in Istanbul, the conflict in Gaza, the military coup in Egypt, the war in Syria and the tribal conflict in Libya.

Narciso’s work in Syria was awarded with one of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, and got recognition in Pictures of the Year International. He has contributed to magazines and media outlets around the globe like TIME magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, Paris Match, RT TV, MSNBC News, AP Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, National Geographic, The Sunday Times magazine, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street Journal, L’Espresso, Expressen, Knack, dS Standaard, Wirtschafts Woche, among others. He also has contributed for non-governmental organizations like MSF (Doctors Without Borders).

He is currently photographing the migrant’s crisis in North Africa as part of a long-term project of documentation based on the worldwide conceived phenomenon of a “massive human displacement”.

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Fondation Carmignac announced the 7th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award has been awarded to Mexican photojournalist Narciso Contreras.

JURY

Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery (London) ; Patrick Baz, Photojournalist and Founder of the Photo Desk for the Middle East and North Africa at Agence France Presse ; Reza, Photojournalist ; Janine di Giovanni, Editor-in-chief for the Middle East, Newsweek ; Thierry Grillet, Chief Curator of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) ; Mikko Takkunen, Photo Editor at the New York Times ; Christophe Gin, Laureate of the 6th Carmignac photojournalism Award

THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: 7 Years of Commitment To Freedom of Expression

Mona Al Ashqar

1st Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Kai Wiedenhöfer for the Fondation Carmignac

Mahnbanr (Qilagai), near the Dir border, Swat Valley, Pakistan,

2nd Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

March 2011 © Massimo Berruti, VU’ for the Fondation Carmignac

Portrait "ZIMBABWE, your wounds will be named silence"

3rd Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Robin Hammond, NOOR for the Fondation Carmignac

Shatoy from "Spasibo"

4th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Newsha Tavakolian, Magnum for the Fondation Carmignac

A portrait of Somayyeh, a 32-year old divorced teacher.

5th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Davide Monteleone,VII Photo for the Fondation Carmignac

Camopi, March 2015

6th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

The 7th Edition Laureate will be formally revealed at the Visa pour l’Image Festival, Perpignan

THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD : SEVEN YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

The Carmignac Foundation launched the Carmignac photojournalism Award in 2009 with the aim of supporting and celebrating photojournalism. This unique Award funds a photographer to explore an area of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts, where human rights and freedom of speech are violated. Previous subjects have ranged from Gaza (Kai Wiedenhöfer), Pachtounistan (Massimo Berruti), Zimbabwe (Robin Hammond), Chechnya (Davide Monteleone), Iran (Newsha Tavakolian), lawless areas in France (Christophe Gin) and Libya.

A key aim of the Award is to support the winning photojournalist by providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate 50,000€ to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return, in Paris and then in London at the Saatchi Gallery. Four photographs from this work will be integrated into the Carmignac Collection.

1st. Kai Wiedenhöfer
2nd. Massimo Berruti, VU’
3rd. Robin Hammond, NOOR
4th. Davide Monteleone, VII Photo
5th Newsha Tavakolian, Magnum
6th. Christophe Gin
7. The 7th Edition Laureate will be formally revealed at the Visa pour l’Image Festival, Perpignan, Summer 2016.

www.fondation-carmignac.com

 Call For Entries for the

8th CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD
Theme: Slavery and the Trafficking of #Women
Apply! #WomensRights #Slavery #photojournalism #Award

//bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

THE 8th CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: Slavery and the Trafficking of Women

CALL FOR APPLICATION THEME

SLAVERY AND THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN

The purpose of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is to support the winning photojournalist in undertaking a photographic and investigative assignment, and providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate 50,000€ to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return, in Paris and then in London at the Saatchi Gallery. Four photographs from this work will be integrated into the Carmignac Collection.

The 8th edition of the Carmignac photojournalism Award is devoted to modern day slavery and its incidence among women.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that there are more than 2.5 million victims of modern day slavery, and women make up the majority of this number. According to Amnesty International, women represent 80% of the victims of human trafficking, of whom nearly 50% are minors. The types of exploitation are numerous: sexual, forced labor, domestic slavery…

Women are all the more vulnerable in situations where they have little protection. The countries of South and South-East Asia as well as those of Central Europe and the ex-USSR are the principal purveyors of these modernday slaves. Although abduction is the most common route into slavery, women are also sold by their own families or entrapped into joining the networks of traffickers.

Armed conflicts exacerbate discriminatory and violent behaviour towards women. In Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, numerous camps of Syrian refugees have emerged. These refugees provide easy prey for networks on the lookout for ‘merchandise’. In Nigeria, in the Darfur region of western Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls are subject to abductions carried out to provide their kidnappers with sexual or domestic slaves.

Chaired by Monique Villa, Founder of Trust Women, the 8th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award aims to make visible these forms of modern day slavery, by supporting a project with the potential to become a tool for reflection and concrete change in the fight against the trafficking of women.

THE JURY

The jury of the 8th Edition of the Award, chaired by Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of Trust Women, will meet in November 2016 in Paris.

The panel comprises:

- Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator specialized in photography books
- Francesca Fabiani, Photography Special Projects, Department for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Ministry of Culture, Italy
- Thierry Grillet, Chief Curator of Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
- Olivier Laurent, Editor-in-chief of Time Lightbox
- Élisabeth Quin, Journalist, Writer and Arte TV Presenter (28 Minutes)
- The Laureate of the 7th edition, currently working in Libya

The pre-selection jury, whose task is to shortlist 12 to 15 submissions from all applications received, consists of :

- Patrick Baz, Photojournalist
- Dimitri Beck, Photo Director at Polka Magazine
- Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

After the selection, the jury will meet the winning photographer in order to speak to him/her and to provide, if necessary, the support s/he will require throughout his/her project - from the preparation stage of the report, to its final exhibition.

The photographers must submit their projects before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 16th October 2016, by applying online on www.fondation-carmignac. com or at the following address:

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

Theme: #Slavery and the Trafficking of #Women
Apply! #WomensRights #photojournalism #Award

CHRISTOPHE GIN : At The Collection Lambert in Avignon 3 July - 6 November 2016

 A ‘legal’ Guianese canoe, jump crossing. Oyapock River, 

April 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Trois-Sauts, January 2015

© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Illegal service station on the Surinamese bank of the Maroni,

June 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

An exhibition dedicated to Christophe Gin, 6th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, on view from 6 July to 6 November at the Hôtel de Montfaucon in Avignon, is the fruit of a unique partnership with the Lambert Collection and the Fondation Carmignac.

The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often under represented in mainstream news coverage.

The jury for the 6^th edition, chaired by Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, chose Christophe Gin as the 2014 laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. 

Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana, from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His photography bears witness to the reality of life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often presented through the mainstream press. 

  

CHRISTOPHE GIN  

The Collection Lambert en Avignon

5 rue Violette - 84 000 Avignon

3 July - 6 November 2016. 

Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm

Every day in July and August 11am to 7pm

collectionlambert.com

  

Christophe Gin was born in 1965 in Nevers. A self-taught photographer, he started his career in the early 1990s, with the photo report Nathalie conduite de pauvreté (Nathalie: Conduct of Poverty, 1994-2001), which was shot behind closed doors and explored the inner workings of misery by focusing on Nathalie, who agreed to have her daily life photographed for seven years. The method is minimalist, getting as close to the protagonist as possible, with the photographer disappearing to give the audience a better view of the subject.

Following this work, Christophe Gin wanted to avoid being trapped in a specific genre, and felt the need to discover new horizons, which led him to explore French Guiana for the first time in 2001. Encountering and understanding this society would be a long and arduous process, taking the photographer to Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Suriname. A second series came out of it: Le Pont des Illusions (The Bridge of Illusions, 2002-2014).

His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, inlcuding Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane in the capital Cayenne, the Galerie Fait et Cause in Paris, at Shenyang (China), the China International Photo Festival in Lianzhou, the Visa pour l’Image event in Perpignan and PhotoEspaña.

christophegin.org