"We’ve been given a very simplistic view of the world: you have the bad ones, and the good ones…. Since I’ve been doing this job, I realize there is no black and white - there is a lot of gray everywhere."
In this video, Getty Images Reportage photographer Veronique de Viguerie, from France, provides insight to her career, discussing some of her iconic and unique work. She revisits some of her most memorable assignments, such as her time embedded with the pirates of Somalia, and working as a woman photojournalist in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
After originally completing a master’s degree in law, Veronique traveled to England to study photojournalism. She spent 3 years living and working in Afghanistan, and since 2006 has been covering stories around the world, from the Middle East, to Africa, Asia and beyond. In 2006 she won the Canon prize for the Female Photojournalist of the Year, the Lagardere Grant for Young Talent, and released her first book about Afghanistan: “Regards Croises”, published by Hachette. In 2010, she won the prize for Best War Reportage at the Bayeux-Calvados Festival for War Correspondents, and in 2011 she had her second book published in collaboration with French journalist Manon Querouil, with whom she frequently collaborates, called “Carnets de Reportages du XXIe Siecle”, a travelogue of her many trips abroad as a photojournalist.
