Crossing the Afghanistan border in disguise at night was once just part of the job 🌍📸

In this episode I sit down with legendary French photojournalist Pascal Maitre — whose work over the last four decades has taken him to places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan ,more than forty countries throughout Africa, and worked in South America, Russia, the Middle East, Latin America and numerous other regions over the last four decades.

And over this +40 year career, his photography has appeared in major publications such as National Geographic, Geo, Paris Match and Stern. He has won multiple World Press Photo Awards, received the Visa d’Or d’Honneur for Lifetime Achievement at ‘Visa pour l’Image’, and today he is also a Canon Ambassador.

From walking with the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to documenting dangerous daily life in Somalia, migration, conflict, energy poverty and the global charcoal crisis, Pascal shares incredible stories from a lifetime spent trying to photograph not just events… but the human reality underneath them.

We talk about the older generation of photojournalism before the digital era, Kodachrome, fixers, trust, curiosity, and how photography — at its best — still depends on patience, time, and understanding people.

Grab a coffee, settle in, and enjoy my conversation with Pascal Maitre.

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