{"id":10340,"date":"2019-05-22T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2023-10-07T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:23:40","slug":"jerome-sessini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/jerome-sessini\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sessini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magnum Photographer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sessini<\/strong> builds a passion for photography, discovering documentary photography through books shown by a friend, a photographer. He initiates his own practice, shooting people, landscapes and the daily lives of those around his native Eastern France (with Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Mark Cohen, in mind).
\nIn 1998, although nothing predicted he would turn to journalism, Sessini arrives in Paris. Gamma photo agency<\/strong> gives him the opportunity to cover the ongoing conflict in Kosovo<\/strong>.
\nSessini has since then covered most of the international current events: Palestine<\/strong>, Iraq<\/strong> (from 2003 to 2008), Aristide\u2019s fall in Haiti<\/strong> (2004), the conquest of Mogadishu<\/strong> by the Islamic militias and the war in Lebanon<\/strong> (2006).<\/p>\n

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Sessini\u2019s work is immediately internationally acknowledged. It is published by prestigious newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek<\/strong>, Stern, Paris-Match<\/strong> as well as Le Monde<\/strong> and the Wall Street Journal<\/strong>.
\nHis photography also leads to single exhibitions at the Visa Photo Festival<\/strong> in Perpignan, at the Rencontres d\u2019Arles<\/strong>, the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale Fran\u00e7ois-Mitterrand<\/strong>, as well as with the French Ministry of Culture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, Jerome Sessini<\/strong> started the Mexican project, So far from God, too close from the US<\/strong>, a dive into the drug cartels\u2019 war in Mexico. This still-ongoing project has already been awarded twice with the F-Award<\/strong> and a Getty Grant<\/strong>.
\nFrom this direct confrontation with violence, Sessini has recognized a state of things which is at the heart of his work, \u201cOrdinary fellows are always those losing, either it being in Iraq, Mexico or France\u201d.
\nEvolving within an uncertain balance of cynical realism<\/strong> and upset<\/strong>, Sessini is very careful with the \u201crightness<\/strong>\u201d of his photographic work. He rejects idealism and otherworldliness<\/strong>, which do not take into account some pieces of reality.<\/p>\n

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Magnum Photographer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sessini builds a passion for photography, discovering documentary photography through books shown by a friend, a photographer. He initiates his own practice, shooting people, landscapes and the daily lives of those around his native Eastern France (with Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,576],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27838,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/27838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}