The 30th edition of the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents will have as president the legendary British photographer Don Mc Cullin. Awarded the British Press Award in 1961 for his coverage of the construction of the Berlin Wall, the World Press Photo in 1964 for the emerging Cypriot intercommunal conflict.
College students, under the sponsorship of the Magnum agency, will create from scratch a magazine on a conflict and the Battle of Normandy. Other events of the week, the AFP meetings with the Syrian photographer Sameer al-Doumy.