War photographer Patrick Chauvel: 'People have lost faith in the press'

Home Shows Perspective Video content Program Culture To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 09:29 Issued on: 12/11/2026 - 14:33 From the show One of France's top war photographers, who has a 50-year CV of taking pictures in and around conflicts across the planet, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his concerns that people have lost faith in the press. He notes that journalists are only looking for the truth. Patrick Chauvel has produced nearly 380,000 photographs, from Vietnam to Cambodia, from Afghanistan to Palestine, from Lebanon to Ukraine. He says he wants to take people by the hand to show them how the press works and why. Chauvel's new book "Éclats de guerre" or "Shards of war" guides us through his career and his outlook on the world. He spoke to us in Perspective.