Jimmy Fox
Death of a legendary picture-editor
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Jimmy Fox
Gérard Rancinan, talent and revolt on edge
Gérard Rancinan, was a photojournalist, and is now an artist photographer, he exhibits with his partner Caroline Gaudriault, “Journey in democracy”, a series of thirty photographs and texts at Villa Tamaris from January 29 to May 7, 2022. Voir la suite
In memoriam: Hubert Henrotte (1934-2020)
Hubert Henrotte, founder of Gamma and Sygma is dead. The last great actor of the golden age of French photojournalism passed away this Friday, November 20, 2020 at around 3:30 a.m., at the Georges Pompidou Hospital, in Paris, at the age of 86. An intimate religious ceremony will take place and Jean-François Leroy will organize a professional tribute as soon as possible.
André Sas (1928-2020)
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On April 2, 2020, at the age of 91, photographer André Sas died in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val de Marne). In October 2019, Mohamed Lounès, of the Gamma agency, and Christian Ducasse, who knew him at the Association of Journalist Reporters Photographers, still found him sparkling. Publish in The Eyes of Photography
Jean-Pierre Pappis / Polaris : “the greatest story of our century”
Mete Zihnioglu / Sipa : “Facing as it has been for 50 years”
The Sipa Press news agency, named after its founder Göksin Sipahioglu, was created in 1973 in Paris. It is one of the “Three enemy sisters” (Gamma-Sipa-Sygma). The agency distributes the production of the Associated Press in France. Despite this, it has known many financial problems since the 2008 crisis, adventures with the late German agency DAPD before finding a stable group of associates. But its financial situation, like that of other agencies is precarious. Voir la suite
Thomas Pey / AKG: “We are seeing a 25% drop in downloads”
Founded more than half a century ago in Germany, the agency AKG Images (Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte: Archive for Art and History) is established in three European capitals, Berlin, London and Paris. The Paris office is headed by Thomas Pey. The last turnover published was € 1,190,368 with a positive result of € 2,722 and eight employees. (Source: infogreffe.fr)
Jean-Michel Psaïla / Abaca
Fuck the virus !
After this email, in a telephone conversation, Jean-Michel Psaïla specifies that it has been a week since he contracted the virus as well as his wife. “It’s okay, for the moment no medical complications,” he specifies. He is worried about his photographers and refuses to give them working missions: “It is a huge responsibility, and then, once we have done, hospitals, masked people, and morgues, there there is nothing left to photograph, everything has stopped! “He concludes. Voir la suite
