Rémy Ourdan

Journalism

Rémy Ourdan began as a reporter in 1992 in besieged Sarajevo. He covers for more than three decades for Le Monde^[1] 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^[2]
• "A War, and Ricochets" (VII, "WAR", de.MO, New York, 2003)^[3][4]
• "America vs Al Qaeda : A Foe's Best Friend" (Dispatches, "Beyond Iraq", 2008)^[5][6]
• "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2009" (Les Arènes, Paris, 2009)^[7]
• "Sarajevo, a love story"^[8] (foreword & "Soldier's Words", "Bosnia 1992-1995", edited by Jon Jones, Sarajevo, 2012)^[9]
• "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2012" (Pocket, Paris, 2012)^[10]
• "Première nuit à Sarajevo" ("Robert Capa - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2015)^[11]
• "Marcher dans les ruines" (Zérane S. Girardeau, "Déflagrations. Dessins d’enfants, guerres d’adultes", Anamosa, Paris, 2017)^[12]
• "Partez ou vous allez tous mourir" (introduction, Bruno Philip, "Aung San Suu Khi, l’icône fracassée", Les Equateurs, Paris, 2017)^[13]
• "643 enfants" (Zérane S. Girardeau, "Dessins d’enfants et violences de masse", Lienart, Paris, 2021)^[14]
• "Patrick Chauvel, tant qu'il y aura des guerres" ("Patrick Chauvel - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2022)^[15]

Film

Rémy Ourdan is the author and director of the documentary film The Siege^[16][17] (co-directed with Patrick Chauvel, Agat Films & Cie, 2016).^{[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]}

Exhibitions

• "The world of 9/11" (co-curated with Stéphane Grimaldi, Mémorial de Caen, Caen, 2021)^[25]
• "Traces of Humanity" (co-curated with Damir Šagolj, Hôtel du Doyen, Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, Bayeux, 2021)^[26]
• "Tragovi humanosti" (co-curated with Damir Šagolj, Bosnian Cultural Center, Sarajevo, 2022)^[27]

Other

Rémy Ourdan organized on April 6, 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Bosnia, a reunion called "Sarajevo 2012",^[28][29] for which hundreds of war reporters came back to Sarajevo.^[30] He published, with Jon Jones and Gary Knight, the photo book Bosnia 1992-1995 (edited by Jon Jones, 2012),^[31] for which he wrote the foreword Sarajevo, a love story.^[32]

Rémy Ourdan is a co-founder and was the first director of the WARM Foundation on contemporary conflicts^[33] (2012-2019),^[34] based in Sarajevo.^[35][36][37]

Awards

• Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2000^[38] for a story on the war in Sierra Leone (Le Monde, 1999).
• Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents 2012, Ouest-France/Jean-Marin Prize^[39] for a story on the Mexican drug war in Ciudad Juarez (Le Monde, 2012).^[40]
• Gold FIPA for Best Documentary 2016^[41][42] for The Siege (Agat Films & Cie, 2016).