Jérôme Sessini UKRAINE. Kiev. February 22, 2017.
Activists of far right groups and their supporters take part in the so-called March of Dignity, marking the third anniversary of the 2014 Ukrainian pro-European U (...)
nion mass protests, in Kiev. The rally was organized by three right-wing parties: Svoboda (Freedom) party, the far-right Right Sector and the newly formed National Corps party founded by members of the Azov battalion.
These parties accuse the government of being too weak and conciliatory in the face of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its support for pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Bieke Depoorter EGYPT. 2013.
(Translation of the written text below)
- You can stay with me no problem, a day, a week, a month. But taking pictures: no.
- Sometimes all the borders · customs, traditions, doctr (...)
ines - can make you lose confidence in yourself. You have to trust yourself first before you can trust others.
- My name is Nora and I corne from a middle-class family. I think my parents would never allow a stranger to corne stay in our house for a day, because of issues with privacy and fear of strangers and crime. The fear is due to all the problems we read about on social media, fear that these stories might happen to us. I wouldn't allow you to take a picture of me because I would consider that a violation of my privacy. And because l'm not used to dealing with strangers.
- I agree with these ideas.
- There are a lot of people out there who think this way because of the current situation.
- Marna says spend the night with us, or with Karima our neighbour, because her bathroom is better.
- The problem is not privacy. The problem is our fear of how people will judge us.
- If they knew that this book would be published in Egypt, they would not agree to being photographed.
- Haven't you heard about Regeni, the ltalian?
- Who is Regeni the ltalian?
- They tortured him as if he was Egyptian (the mother of Regeni said). That's very painful for us, as Egyptians.
- People here are programmed to think that a foreigner with a camera is a spy.
- But that's actually true.
- Why are people afraid of you?
- Advice from my father to you: don't trust anyone, because that's just blind trust. But treat people with good intentions, until something proves otherwise.
- The picture was taken when she was in a bad state of mind, a sad mood.
- I am one of those people who wouldn't want to be photographed in my house while relaxing.
- I sit like this at home every day. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Orphans at Pilgrim Republic rehab center for children. Located on the Azov Sea, some 100 kilometers from the rebel-held provincial capital Donetsk, Mariupol is seen as a key element of a potential (...)
land corridor from Russia to the Crimean peninsula. Mariupol May, Ukraine. 2015. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini In Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city along the US border of 1,5 million souls, you'll have more chances of being killed then in Baghdad. For the sole year 2009, there were 2,657 "executions" counted . (...)
There are around 8,000 soldiers stationed in the city to reinforce police forces but fear has spread amongst the population where the crime rate is of 163 murders for 1,000 inhabitants. Rivalry between gangs controlling the drug market, violence within jobless families relying on relatives to send them dollars from the other side of the frontier, as well as the overwhelming presence of the cartels infiltrating state authorities and ransoming anyone from street vendors to corrupted officials has sent Ciudad Juarez in a seemingly endless spirale of violence. Colonia Fronteriza alta, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. December 5, 2009. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini UKRAINE. Kiev. An Orthodox priest blesses the protesters on a barricade. February 20, 2014. Unidentified snipers opened fire on unarmed protesters as they were advancing on Instituska street. Accor (...)
ding to an official source, 70 protesters were shot dead. Ukrainian riot police claimed that several policeman were wounded or shot dead by snipers as well. An unofficial source said that snipers opened fire on the police and protesters at the same time in order to provoke both camps. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos