Patrick Chauvel-Salon du livre en Bretagne 2012

Patrick Chauvel (born 1949 in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

) is an independent war

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other ...

whose career began when he was just 17 years old. He has covered more than twenty conflicts all over the world, including the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...

and the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

. In 1995 he was awarded the

World Press Photo World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest. Since 2011, World Press Photo has organized a ...

commendation for ''Spot News Stories'' for his coverage of the Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War. He is also author of some documentary movies. On 21 December 1989 during the

Invasion of Panama The United States invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, lasted over a month between mid-December 1989 and late January 1990. It occurred during the administration of President George H. W. Bush and ten years after the Torrijos� ...

he was critically wounded to the belly by two rounds shot by Marines; Juan Antonio Rodriguez (El Pais) was killed. After the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, he allegedly saw time stamped photographs from a speed camera showing the Mercedes entering the fatal tunnel. Author of two books in French, the autobiographical Rapporteur de Guerre (2003) and the novel Sky (2005). Also participated in 24h.com-neo media projects and in th
Condition One
project.

Documentary Films

* 48h à Ramallah / Patrick Chauvel * Cauchemars d’enfants tchétchènes / Patrick Chauvel * Derrière l’objectif / Patrick Chauvel * Kamikaze 47 / Patrick Chauvel * Rapporteurs de guerres / Patrick Chauvel; Antoine Novat

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Filmography (actor)

* 1982 : ''L'Honneur d'un capitaine'', by

Pierre Schoendoerffer Pierre Schoendoerffer (french: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was ...

* 1992 : ''Dien Bien Phu'', by

* 2004 : ''Le Petit Lieutenant'', by

Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Career His film ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film '' Of Gods an ...

* 2004 : ''Above the Clouds'' (''Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages''), by

* 2007 : ''L'étoile du soldat'', by Christophe de Ponfilly

Documentary Films

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