2024-Le jury

Dominique Duchateau

75 years old Retired from France Télévisions.

Learning and practicing photography as a teenager, from 1971 to 1999, journalist and senior reporter for television, in the field with a camera; first on 16mm film, then on video.

Participation in training in camera reporting and image techniques.

Participation in juries for qualifying journalists in reporting, and juries for prizes awarded to journalists.

Since the end of 2012, retired, member of a cinema club to shoot and edit fiction or captures, for 2 years, member of a photo club on the Côte de Nacre (Normandy) https://www.adn-photo .com/ I like images that combine nature and sky lights.

I appreciate montages of images that tell a story but also bring something to the viewer.

Dominique Duchateau

75 years old Retired from France Télévisions.

Learning and practicing photography as a teenager, from 1971 to 1999, journalist and senior reporter for television, in the field with a camera; first on 16mm film, then on video.

Participation in training in camera reporting and image techniques.

Participation in juries for qualifying journalists in reporting, and juries for prizes awarded to journalists.

Since the end of 2012, retired, member of a cinema club to shoot and edit fiction or captures, for 2 years, member of a photo club on the Côte de Nacre (Normandy) https://www.adn-photo .com/ I like images that combine nature and sky lights.

I appreciate montages of images that tell a story but also bring something to the viewer.

Bernard Motte

In 1964 I joined the Photo Film Argenteuillais where I learned to combine the techniques of Photography, Slideshow and Cinema.

After moving to Essonne, in 2009 I accepted the position of UR18 commissioner for Audiovisual.

I have long worked for the freedom of authors in their choices and the promotion of creativity. I defend, for example, the possibility of including video sequences in short photographic films. Furthermore, I think that we should not pass a CAP for software manipulation. I have a marked preference for achievements that have meaning.

Michel Primault

Very happy to be invited to participate in this jury.

I became interested in photography at the age of twelve, after receiving a modest 6x6 Kodak Brownie Flash as a gift. Later, having had the chance during my military service to be assigned to a photographic service, I learned the basics of B&W processing in the laboratory and benefited from advice on the purchase of more ambitious equipment. The impulse being given, I then moved from a simple interest to a passion that would never leave me, accentuated by a career in the distribution of opto-mechanical and opto-electronic topography instruments within a leading company also specializing in the production of microscopes and high-end 24x36 cameras.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the advent of digital photography naturally led me into the vast world of digital processing and creative retouching. For ten years and thanks to my retirement, I have been a member of the Clic Triel photo club in Triel sur Seine (78) where I continue to practice photography as well as, more modestly, audio-visual creation, benefiting from the experience and advice from “elders”.

I particularly appreciate montages that convey a story, full of emotion, poetry, humor and served by well-chosen music.

I am convinced that the 2024 selection will live up to those of past years.