Last December, he spent five weeks covering the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jérôme Delay is Africa chief photographer for the Associated Press and has spent more than twenty years travelling round the continent, particularly the Congo: “My favourite country”. He feels comfortable and knows plenty of people there. “Sometimes, the worst atrocities occur in the most beautiful places.” In partnership with the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award, he is exhibiting a series of twenty shots, taken in the Congo, at the Normandy for Peace village. Images of refugees and fighters in an endless conflict are shown alongside images of the ongoing democratic process. “With the aim of remaining neutral. ” He prefers a photograph of a young activist with his party’s flag on his head to a photograph of the elected president.

Jérôme Delay also took part in the debate entitled “DRC: what end to the crisis?” on Tuesday 4 June and was delighted to have “hit the big time”. “It’s not often that you find yourself in the same room as four Nobel Peace Prize winners! I’ll come back here as an audience member to learn more and to meet extraordinary people. ”