A l’œil a envoyé une série de trois questions à des patrons d’agences de presse photo pour connaître la situation face à cette « guerre » mondiale et sanitaire. Aujourd’hui, la réponse de Paul Marneff de l’agence belge Isopix.
CORONAVIRUS Agence VU
« Il ne faudrait pas que cette nouvelle guerre soit sans images »
A l’œil a envoyé une série de trois questions à des patrons d’agences de presse photo pour connaître la situation face à cette guerre mondiale et sanitaire. Aujourd’hui, la réponse de Patricia Morvan et de Patrick Codomier codirecteurs de l’agence VU.
Jean-Pierre Pappis / Polaris : “the greatest story of our century”

Jean-Pierre Pappis / Polaris et Jeff Pekal / Starface à Visa pour l’image – Photo G. Delalot
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
Guillaume Binet, Stéphane Lagoutte / MYOP
“… this is a world upside down for a long time from which we suffer. “
M.Y.O.P. are the initials from a poem by Paul Eluard: “My eyes patient object / were forever open / on the expanse of the seas / where I got lost”. Since the beginning of the XXIth century Myop has continued, through a thousand vicissitudes, to expand its team which today makes up one of the most prestigious “team” with Ed Alcock, Guillaume Binet, Julien Daniel, Agnès Dherbeys, Marie Dorigny, Julie Hascoët , Pierre Hybre, Olivier Jobard, Alain Keler, France Keyser, Oan Kim, Olivier Laban-Mattei, Stéphane Lagoutte, Jean Larive, Ulrich Lebeuf, Pascal Maitre, Olivier Monge, Julien Pebrel, Jérémy Saint-Peyre, etc. Voir la suite



