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The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation is a charitable trust established in 2000 by the late photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths.The object of the Foundation is to further the education of the public in the art and science of photography with a particular emphasis on helping and aiding young photojournalists. Katherine Holden and Fanny Ferrato will be helping to pick a winner for the Beirut Photo Marathon on behalf of the Foundation.Both Katherine and Fanny, as trustees of the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation, have had extensive experience coordinating exhibitions, from New York City and Los Angeles to Vietnam, and are currently working on securing, digitising and presenting the archive of Mr. Griffiths. Katherine worked for many years on Philip's photographs and helped with the creation of the book Recollections. Katherine and Fanny have just finished co-coordinating an exhibition at the National Library of Wales

Patrick Baz is French-Lebanese, born in Beirut in 1963. He was twelve when war broke out in 1975. Living near the demarcation line separating the Christian and Muslim zones, Baz was stimulated by what was going on around him to take up photography at an early age. Lebanon became his training ground. Between 1980 and 1988, he worked as a freelance photojournalist. His pictures were published in major international magazines like Paris Match, TIME, NewsWeek, Stern, Spiegel, l’Express, L’Espresso etc. In 1989, Agence France-Presse (AFP) gave him the opportunity to cover the First Intifada in Gaza and the West Bank. He also covered the First Gulf War in 1990, and later conflicts in Kurdistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Baz is currently AFP’s photo manager for the MENA region, but continues to work as a photographer on the field. He recently covered the Arab revolutions in Egypt and Libya.He sat as a member of the World Press Photo jury, the Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents among other prestigious awards. Baz won two POYi (Pictures of the Year International) Award delivered by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. In 2009 Baz published “Don’t Take My Picture, Iraqis Don’t Cry”.
www.worldpressphoto.org/patrick-baz

Patrick Baz, photo-reporter franco-libanais né à Beyrouth en 1963, est directeur photo de l’AFP pour le Moyen-Orient depuis 20 ans. Il n’a que 12 ans quand la guerre du Liban éclate, en 1975. Habitant près de la ligne de démarcation séparant les Chrétiens des Musulmans, Patrick Baz se met à photographier ce qui se passe autour de lui, malgré son jeune âge. Le Liban devient son terrain d’apprentissage. Entre 1980 et 1988, il travaille comme photo-journaliste freelance, ses images sont publiées dans des magazines internationaux tels que Paris Match, Time, NewsWeek, Stern, Spiegel, L’Express, etc. En 1989, l’Agence France Presse (AFP) lui donne l’opportunité de couvrir la première Intifada. Entre temps, il couvre d’autres conflits qui secouent la planète, notamment la première guerre du Golfe en 1990, le Kurdistan en 1991, la Somalie, l’enfer de Sarajevo en 1993, les guerres d’Irak et d’Afghanistan dans les années 2000 et plus récemment les soulèvements en Egypte et en Libye.
www.worldpressphoto.org/patrick-baz

Ghada Waked is a Professor at the University of Balamand ALBA and Holy Spirit University of Kaslik. She is also President of Beirut's Biennial for the Image and founder of Albedo Creative Platform.

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Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna co-founded Tamyras Publishing House in 2003 and is now acting director. She has been a journalist for over a decade and has worked as editor-in-chief of cultural magazines such as Esquisse, and Alinea, an online literary magazine. After launching the CD-Rom called Tawarikh, which gave a chronology of Lebanon’s events throughout the century, she decided to focus her research on Lebanese traditions. She is also the author of seven books: Un phare sur la Méditerranée, Vert Méditerrannée et Tous les enfants ont des droits, three bilingual children books. She also wrote Invitation au voyage, a work dedicated to Beirut National Museum artefacts and their relation to various towns; Beirut by Day, a coffee-table book on the city’s history and stories; Lebanon & on, a coffee-table book about Lebanese traditions and Le Phoenicia, un hôtel dans l’histoire, published back in 2012.
www.tamyras.com