Rémy Ourdan
French journalist
Rémy Ourdan is a French journalist, war correspondent for the newspaper Le Monde, and documentary filmmaker.
Biography
Journalism
Rémy Ourdan began as a reporter in 1992 in besieged Sarajevo. He covers for more than three decades for Le Monde the main conflicts in the world, as well as post-war, human rights and international justice issues. He also continues his long-term work on Sarajevo.
Various Publications
"Après-guerre(s)" (foreword & "Sarajevo, après le siège"), edited by Rémy Ourdan, Autrement, Paris, 2001
"A War, and Ricochets" (VII, "WAR", de.MO, New York, 2003)
"America vs Al Qaeda : A Foe's Best Friend" (Dispatches, "Beyond Iraq", 2008)
"Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2009" (Les Arènes, Paris, 2009)
"Sarajevo, a love story" (foreword & "Soldier's Words", "Bosnia 1992-1995", edited by Jon Jones, Sarajevo, 2012)
"Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2012" (Pocket, Paris, 2012)
"Première nuit à Sarajevo" ("Robert Capa - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2015)
"Marcher dans les ruines" (Zérane S. Girardeau, "Déflagrations. Dessins d’enfants, guerres d’adultes", Anamosa, Paris, 2017)
"Partez ou vous allez tous mourir" (introduction, Bruno Philip, "Aung San Suu Khi, l’icône fracassée", Les Equateurs, Paris, 2017)
"643 enfants" (Zérane S. Girardeau, "Dessins d’enfants et violences de masse", Lienart, Paris, 2021)
"Patrick Chauvel, tant qu'il y aura des guerres" ("Patrick Chauvel - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2022)
Film
Rémy Ourdan is the author and director of the documentary film The Siege (co-directed with Patrick Chauvel, Agat Films & Cie, 2016).
Exhibitions
"The world of 9/11" (co-curated with Stéphane Grimaldi, Mémorial de Caen, Caen, 2021)
"Traces of Humanity" (co-curated with Damir Šagolj, Hôtel du Doyen, Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, Bayeux, 2021)
"Tragovi humanosti" (co-curated with Damir Šagolj, Bosnian Cultural Center, Sarajevo, 2022)
Other
Rémy Ourdan organized on April 6, 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Bosnia, a reunion called "Sarajevo 2012", for which hundreds of war reporters came back to Sarajevo. He published, with Jon Jones and Gary Knight, the photo book Bosnia 1992-1995 (edited by Jon Jones, 2012), for which he wrote the foreword Sarajevo, a love story.
Rémy Ourdan is a co-founder and was the first director of the WARM Foundation on contemporary conflicts (2012-2019), based in Sarajevo.
Awards
Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2000 for a story on the war in Sierra Leone (Le Monde, 1999).
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