Jonas Cuénin

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In a year marked by global conflict, climate catastrophe, and mass migration, the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year serves as a searing reminder of the human cost of war. The award, given to Samar Abu Elouf for her deeply intimate portrait Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine, places a child’s trauma at the center of our collective conscience. Selected from over 59,000 entries, her photograph is not only a work of journalistic excellence, but a moral document — haunting, quiet, and devastating.

2 weeks ago | blind-magazine.com | Jonas Cuénin

Vincent Gouriou est connu pour ses portraits. Depuis plus de dix ans, il photographie des personnes qu’il rencontre, souvent dans un cadre intime. Il s’intéresse à l’identité, à la manière dont chacun habite son corps, sa maison, son territoire. Cette fois, il est parti à la rencontre de celles et ceux qui vivent à la campagne et qui ne rentrent pas dans les normes de genre ou de sexualité. Le projet s’est construit lentement, entre la Bretagne et le Massif central.

2 weeks ago | blind-magazine.com | Jonas Cuénin

Vincent Gouriou is known for his portraits. For over ten years, he has photographed people he meets, often in intimate settings. He’s interested in identity, in how each person inhabits their body, their home, their land. This time, he set out to meet those who live in the countryside and who do not conform to gender or sexual norms. The project developed slowly, between Brittany and the Massif Central, in France. “I met queer farmers. We took time to get to know each other.

1 month ago | blind-magazine.com | Jonas Cuénin

Christoph Wiesner introduced this edition with an anecdote: in his fight against “gender ideology”, President Donald Trump ordered a purge of the U.S. administration’s archives. Among the losses? A photograph of the Hiroshima bomber, removed due to its title, Enola Gay, which was misinterpreted by artificial intelligence. “Photography fluctuates, but fortunately, it is multifaceted, persistent, and will always return,” said the festival’s director in response.

1 month ago | blind-magazine.com | Jonas Cuénin

References to a second world war Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, and the first women to pass US marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion at the Pentagon. The preparations come as the US defense department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press.