Reuters, the largest news agency in the world, will present Our World Now, a book of the finest Reuters photos of 2008, and the video documentary entitled Bearing Witness: five years of the Iraq war (click here to see the video) on the stark reality of war reporting. 

In April 2009 Reuters publishes Our World Now, a compilation of about 350 of the best Reuters photos taken in 2008. Reuters works with around 600 photographers worldwide and distributes more than half a million pictures each year. The big issues, such as conflict in the Middle East, are covered prominently in the new book along with more light-hearted imagery that often reveals just as much about the world today. 

Tiziana Barghini Reuters editor for Southern Europe 
 
When journalists report from war zones, few of us can imagine what they go through to deliver the news to the world. The ethics driving Reuters are to tell the truth without bias or favour, to portray the suffering and endurance of civilians under fire, the fear, the anxiety, the loss, the grief and the fight to survive in often brutal and appalling conditions. The Reuters documentary provides a moving testimony to war zone reporting.

Samia Nakoul, Reuters Middle East news editor based in London, will present the documentary. Iraq has proved to be a highly dangerous place for journalists. More have died there than in World War II, more than in both Vietnam wars and more than in Algeria’s war of independence.

Bearing Witness and Our World Now will be on continuous show in the festival press office in the Hotel Brufani from Wednesday 01 to Sunday 05 April.

Organised in partnership with Reuters