CPN talks on film to some of the photographers whose work was exhibited at the 2007 Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. They reveal the stories behind their images and what inspired them in the first place.
Hady Sy
Hady Sy was a student in Beirut at the time of civil war. He became fascinated and disgusted by guns and the death and misery they can bring. In his project 'Not for Sale' he presents X-rays of guns, revealing starkly the very mechanics of weaponry.
Dirck Halstead
Dirck Halstead has been called a legend of news photography. Here he talks to CPN about how he become a Life magazine war photographer at the age of 17, covered Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 and the story behind that famous Monica Lewinsky image.
Jonas Bendiksen
Magnum Photos photographer Jonas Bendiksen follows up his Satellites book with a project called The Places We Live looking at life in slums in four cities around the world. Here he talks about his work on Mumbai’s Dharavi district, home to about one million people.
Jane-Evelyn Atwood
Jane-Evelyn Atwood, more famous for her black and white images, talks here of her colour work shot in Haiti between 2005 and 2007. She powerfully describes how the Haitian people have suffered from years of dictatorship, corruption and deforestation.
John Stanmeyer
Around 500 million people in 107 countries are believed to be infected with malaria. VII photographer John Stanmeyer documented the disease in five countries for National Geographic magazine. Here he talks about his exhibition 'Bedlam in the Blood – Malaria'.
Lizzie Sadin
Freelance photographer Lizzie Sadin talks about her long-term project revealing the conditions in which young people around the world are detained, many unjustly. Her exhibition Juvenile Suffering won the Visa d’or Magazine award at the 2007 Visa pour l’Image festival.