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The first and last time.
Brent Renaud
, 50, said that as a recent college graduate he had flown into Cambodia with a small video camera "that he barely knew how to use" and immediately found himself "in the wrong part of Phnom Penh" with soldiers shot at a checkpoint.
So, like this weekend, and it's certainly a coincidence,
Brent didn't have his older brother Craig by his side
.
Perhaps for the family this is the only and imperceptible relief: because the two were the Renaud brothers, and almost always worked together.
The attack on the bridge
Brent was working in the Ukraine as a freelancer.
Next to him was his colleague Juan Arredondo, injured in the attack: "We crossed a bridge and we were filming the refugees. Someone offered to take us to the next bridge. We went through the checkpoint and at that moment they started shooting at us. The driver He turned around, but they kept shooting. My friend Brent was shot in the neck," he said from the hospital.
Craig and Brent Renaud CHARLES SYKES
A sweatshirt and the word "peacemaker"
In a photo released on social networks by the Ukrainian government
, Brent is seen lifeless in a brown sweatshirt, his shirt unbuttoned, his face poorly shaven and several traces of blood
.
Photographed on the ground, the old identification plate of the New York Times, with which she had collaborated back in 2015, and
the word "peacemaker" on the briefcase
.
His own tenderness and pride are now reflected in fifteen powerful works, documentaries and television series.
From the first report in Chiapas of the Zapatista revolt to the most recent "Meth Storm" about the heroin plague in Arkansas
, through the
children of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010
;
the
missions with the National Guard in Iraq
or the reflection of the violent neighborhoods of Chicago with the children of a "low-income school".
For this television series (
Last Chance High
), the Renaud brothers won a prestigious Peabody Award in 2015.
traveling light
Lives dedicated to documenting the closest stories (where no one pays attention) and the farthest (where few go).
Founders of the Little Rock Film Festival
, the Renaud brothers risked lynching by police thugs following street riots in Egypt and followed the insidious leads of drug traffickers in Mexico.
The first rule (a la Leonard Cohen) was to travel light
.
The second: knowing the "political" map of the place
, the organizational chart of whom to trust, so as not to run the risk of being shot like the first time in Cambodia.
the video editor
Of the two brothers, Brent (from 2018 to 2019 a researcher at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University) was the most tireless.
He spoke little about himself, but he knew how to "reconstruct" the stories of others
.
Not many details are known about his private life:
he was not married, he had no children
.
The AP agency reports that
he is survived by his brother Craig, his sister-in-law Mami, his 11-year-old nephew Tayo
.
Filmmaker and friend
Christof Putzel
, who worked with Brent for 12 years, remembers him in The Associated Press as
a gracious "champion," "the best war reporter I've ever met
. "
A video editing professor, Brent advised journalism students at the University of Little Rock, where he grew up ("as a kid, there were still signs of the Ku Klux Klan") to
set their hearts on the farthest reaches, like Haiti or Nicaragua
, or just around the corner from home, chasing almost invisible stories.
invisible stories
From the start of their career,
the Renauds were obsessed with "unpublished stories
. "
From the Central African Republic to Englewood, Chicago.
Invisible stories.
But it is not strange that Brent was in Kiev, in the heart of the "current" war.
In Irpin, everything happened between reality and fake news.
Because even today the risk is that
"the first victim of war is the truth"
.
Modern war journalism was born not far from Kiev, in the mid-19th century, with the coverage of the Crimean conflict.
Like other civilians, reporters take risks.
Renaud wanted to document the escape of women, the elderly and children: he is the second journalist killed by the Russian invasion, after the Ukrainian cameraman Yevhenii Sakun, who died in the attack on the capital's Television Tower.
The White House has paid tribute to Brent Arnaud.
"The news of his death is terrifying," said national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
His death is a renewed commitment:
he now he will have to Craig tell the world (also) through the eyes of his brother
Of him.
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