World Press
Photo and Human Rights Watch have announced French photographer Olivier
Jobard as the grantee of the third
yearly Tim Hetherington Grant.
The grant is set up to celebrate the
legacy of the photojournalist and filmmaker killed in Libya in 2011. It’s a grant
of €20,000, intended to support a photographer in completing an existing
project on a human rights theme.
For Jobard’s project entitled “Dream of
a Rain of Perfume”,, it’s a choice
by a selection committee from among 145 applications, a joint press
release from World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch says.
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Tim
Hetherington (1970 – 2011)
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“Reviewing the applications, the
selection committee looked for the qualities that defined Hetherington’s
career: work that operates on multiple platforms and in a variety of formats;
that crosses boundaries between breaking news and longer-term investigation;
and that demonstrates a consistent moral commitment to the lives and stories of
the photographic subjects”.
The 2013 selection committee of the Tim
Hetherington Grant consisted of photographers, editors, and representatives
from World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch: Marcus Bleasdale, documentary photographer with VII Photo Agency, Carroll Bogert, deputy executive
director for external relations at Human Rights Watch, Pamela Chen, senior photo editor for the National Geographic
magazine, Ross Kauffman, documentary
film director for Red Light Films and Michiel
Munneke, managing director of World Press Photo. Adriaan Monshouwer, founder of Picture Inside, served as the
secretary during the selection.
The Tim Hetherington Grant is a joint initiative of Human Rights Watch
and World Press Photo, and was created in honor of the photojournalist and
filmmaker Tim Hetherington killed in Misrata, Libya in April 2011. The
application process was open to all professional photographers who have
participated in a World Press Photo competition between 2008 and 2013. For more
information on the Tim Hetherington Grant, please go to www.worldpressphoto.org/tim-hetherington-grant.
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