Emilienne Malfatto

Emilienne Malfatto is a freelance journalist and photojournalist covering the Middle East and Latin America. She studied in France and Colombia and graduated from Sciences Po Paris journalism school in 2013. She then worked two years for AFP (Agence France Presse), in France and on the Middle East regional desk. In early 2015 she moved to northern Iraq as a freelancer. She covers conflict related themes but also in-depth stories, with a social and gender focus. She recently reported in eastern Turkey, Caucasus, Ethiopia and Venezuela. She won the 2015 Reporting prize organized by French media Revue XXI and radio France Info. She was shortlisted for the European Press Prize that same year. Her photos were exhibited in the Kurdish Institute in Paris in December 2015. She attended the 2017 New York Portfolio Review. She is a member of Women Photograph and Frontline Freelance Register.

Emilienne Malfatto was selected for the 2015 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘La femme est un homme comme les autres’

Jean-Marc Manach

Jean-Marc Manach is a French investigative journalist working on surveillance, privacy and intelligence issues (among other things) since the late 90s. He has written numerous information security manuals explaining how to protect ones sources and communications,

worked with Reporters Without Borders for their Online survival kit, with WikiLeaks on numerous issues, including its SpyFiles, and wrote two books about privacy and the surveillance society, and another about Amesys, the French company that designed and sold a “massive” internet surveillance system for the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Working with Nicolas Kayser Bril, for OWNI, which won 2 Online Journalism Awards, in 2010 & 2011, he was one of the (French) pioneers of the #datajournalism new ways of dealing with facts & figures. In 2013, prior to Snowden’s coming out, he co-authored a documentary, “A Counter History of the Internet”, featuring several internet freedom fighters including Julian Assange, John Perry Barlow, Rickard Falkvinge, Eben Moglen, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Bruce Schneier and Richard Stallman.

In 2014, he was part of The Migrant Files, a project wich revealed that, since 2000, more than 23 000 migrants died trying to seek refuge in Europe, which received a Data Journalism Awards and an European Press Prize.

Jean-Marc Manach won the 2015 European Press Prize Innovation Award with ‘The Migrants’ Files: Surveying ­migrants’ deaths at Europe’s door’