Francis Kohn

Agence France-Presse (AFP) director of photography since 2012.

He started working for AFP in 1979 as a journalist and since had been abroad in many countries.  In 1982, he became AFP’s Washington correspondent, then moved to New York. From 1991 to 1995 he was bureau chief for Central America where he covered conflicts in central America and Mexico. In 1995 Francis was appointed AFP editor-in-chief in France. In May 2000, he returned to Washington and worked as editor-in-chief for North America until June 2006, followed by a two year period in Scandinavia and then then a four year period as the Latin America regional director. He was named AFP’s director of photography in January 2012. In 2016, he was president of the jury of the World Press Photo. 

Under his leadership AFP has been recognized with two Pulitzer prizes in photography, two Visa d’Or in a row in 2015 and 2016, as well as a number of World Press Photo awards.

Bénédicte Kurzen

Bénédicte Kurzen (France, 1980) photographic career began when she moved to Israel in 2003, covering hard news as a freelancer in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon. For the past ten years, Bénédicte has been covering conflicts and socio-economical changes in Africa. Her body of work “Amaqabane”, on the life of former anti-apartheid combatants was produced for prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass 2008. In 2011, she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center, which allowed her to produce a body of work on Nigeria, “A Nation Lost to Gods”. Her work has been screened and exhibited at Visa pour l’Image and was nominated for the Visa d’Or in 2012. After becoming a NOOR full member in 2012, she decided to move to Lagos, from where she could pursue her coverage of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Alongside, she became an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Nigeria in journalism.

Tyler Hicks

Photojournalist of The New York Times.

He began working for The Times as a contract photographer in Kenya in 1999, photographing news stories in East and West Africa. As a freelancer for The Times, he worked in various war scenarios, such as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
In 2001, he was the recipient of the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism for his coverage in Afghanistan. He received the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award from Pictures of the Year International for his work in 2006. In 2009, Tyler was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting coverage for of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2014, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. He won the Visa d'or News Award in 2014 and three World Press Photo Awards (2002, 2014, 2015).  

Tyler Hicks was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

Andrei Polikanov

Visual Director, Takie Dela online media, Russia, since 2015.
Born in 1961 in Moscow. In the early 1990s, Polikanov worked as a fixer and stringer with Christopher Morris, Stanley Greene and other prominent international photojournalists, producing stories for such major international publications as Time, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Focus, Spiegel and Paris Match on events in the former USSR territories (including conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia and Tajikistan). From 1996 until 2007 he worked as a photo editor at Time magazine’s Moscow bureau, director of photography at Russian Reporter magazine from 2007 thru 2015. He was jury of the World Press Photo 2017.

David Guttenfelder

National Geographic Photography Fellow, focusing on geopolitical conflict, conservation and culture.

Guttenfelder is a eight-time World Press Photo Award winner and a seven-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  In 2011, he helped the AP open a bureau in North Korea, the first western news agency to have an office in the otherwise-isolated country. Guttenfelder has made more than 40 trips to North Korea. He is the 2013 ICP Infinity Prize winner for photojournalism and a winner of the Overseas Press Club of America John Faber, Olivier Rebbot, & Feature Photography awards. Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA have named him Photojournalist of the Year.

In 2016, a photograph of his made in North Korea was named among Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential Photographs Ever Taken".

He was named inaugural Instagram Photographer of the Year by Time magazine. Through his personal instagram account, he engages with more than 985,000 followers.

Francis Kohn

Director de fotografía da Agence France-Presse (AFP) desde 2012. Comezou a traballar para a AFP en 1979 como xornalista e desde entón foi nomeado para postos no exterior en diversos países.

En 1982, converteuse en correspondente da AFP en Washington, despois trasladouse a Nova York. De 1991 a 1995 foi xefe de gabinete para a América Central, onde cubriu conflitos en Centroamérica e México. En 1995, foi nomeado editor-xefe da AFP en Francia. En maio de 2000, volveu a Washington e traballou como editor-xefe da América ata xuño de 2006, estivo despois por un período de dous anos en Escandinavia e logo, durante catro anos como director rexional de América Latina.

Foi nomeado director de fotografía da AFP en xaneiro de 2012. En 2016, foi presidente do xurado da World Press Photo.

Baixo o seu liderado, a AFP foi recoñecida con dous premios Pulitzer en fotografía, dous Visa d'Or simultáneos, en 2015 e 2016, ademais de numerosos premios World Press Photo.

Bénédicte Kurzen

Fotoxornalista da axencia Noor, ten centrado a súa obra nos conflitos e cambios socioeconómicas no continente africano, nos últimos 10 anos. É mestre en historia contemporánea pola Sorbona, en París. O seu ensaio final en Semiologia sobre o "mito do fotógrafo de guerra", resultou inspira-la a facer-se nunha contadora de historias.

Tyler Hicks

Fotoxornalista do The New York Times.

Comezou a súa carreira en 1999 a traballar como fotógrafo contratado para o grupo The Times, en Quenia, para cubrir as noticias en África Oriental e Occidental. Aínda para o The Times traballou en varios escenarios de guerra, como Afganistán, os Balcáns, a Eritrea e Etiopía.
En 2001, foi o destinatario do Premio ICP Infinity of Photojournalism, pola súa cobertura en Afganistán. Recibiu o premio de Fotógrafos de Prensa do Ano 2007 da POYI, polo conxunto do traballo realizado en 2006. En 2014, recibiu o premio Pulitzer en Breaking News Photography. No seu currículo conta aínda co Visa d'or News Award en 2014 e tres premios World Press Photo (2002, 2014, 2015).

Tyler naceu en São Paulo, Brasil, en 1969 Vive en Nairobi, en Quenia.

Andrei Polikanov

Director Visual, Takie Dela online, Rusia, desde 2015.
Naceu en 1961 en Moscova. A principios dos anos 90, traballou como Fixer e Stringer, producindo reportaxes para grandes publicacións internacionais como Time, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Focus, Spiegel e Paris Match, de eventos nos territorios da ex URSS (Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechenia, e Taxiquistán). Entre 1996 e 2007 foi editor de fotografía na oficina de Moscova da revista Time, e de 2007 a 2015 foi director de fotografía na revista Russian Reporter. Foi membro do xurado do World Press Photo 2017.

David Guttenfelder

Fotoxornalista de National Geographic, ten centrado a súa obra nos conflitos xeopolíticos, conservación da natureza e cultura. Foi oito veces gañador dos Premios World Press Photo e sete veces finalista para o Premio Pulitzer. En 2011, axudou a AP a abrir unha oficina en Corea do Norte, o que a converteu na primeira axencia de noticias occidental a ter unha oficina neste país illado. Fixo durante ese período, máis de 40 viaxes á Corea do Norte.

En 2016, unha fotografía do seu traballo na Corea do Norte foi nomeada entre as "100 fotografías máis influentes de sempre" da revista Time.

Foi nomeado fotógrafo Instagram do Ano pola revista Time. A súa conta persoal de Instagram, ten máis de 985.000 seguidores.