José Nicolas (1956) - Ecole de brousse à Mao

Chad, Mao, 1983. In an open-air school, children look with curiosity at their teacher’s photographic camera. In the middle of the dust and under the vast Sahel sky, a few amazed gazes and a camera going from hand to hand: a simple moment where learning becomes play and discovery. José Nicolas is a French photographer and senior photojournalist, born in Casablanca in 1956. His career is particularly marked by war photojournalism and humanitarian reporting: • He begins photography in the field, notably in Lebanon, then works with Médecins du Monde alongside Bernard Kouchner • He later joins Sipa Press and covers for about a dozen years numerous conflicts: Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chad, Liberia, Romania, Bosnia, Somalia, etc. • In 1994, he was seriously injured in Rwanda during Operation Turquoise. • Since then, his work has gradually shifted toward more personal subjects: Provence, landscapes, nature, portraits and memories of his reporting, often in film and black-and-white • He has also published several books, including French Doctors, Les hommes des roseaux, Cambodia and On est ce que l’on regarde. In 2024 he received the SAIF / Benoît Schaeffer Award for photographic publishing at Visa pour l’Image.

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