Dossier de presse : Carte blanche à Jérôme Delay, Parenthèse 2021
Découvrez le dossier de presse de Jérôme Delay dans le cadre de la Parenthèse 2021 du Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Restitut. Vous pouvez retrouver cette exposition du 6 septembre au 26 décembre 2021.
Carte blanche à Jérôme Delay, photo-journaliste d’Associated Press
Death row prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail 35 kilometers (21 miles) northwest of Baghdad shout from their cells Sunday, Oct. 20, 2002, as hundreds of Iraqis stormed the jail following the annoucement by Saddam Hussein that most prisoners were going to be freed. Tens of thousands of prisoners were greeted by their relatives and friends upon their release throughout Iraq. Only death row inmates were not released. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Communiqué de presse du 2 septembre 2021 – Le centre d’art contemporain de Saint- Restitut a le plaisir de vous annoncer sa prochaine exposition : « Carte blanche à Jérôme Delay, photo-journaliste d’Associated Press ». Elle sera ouverte au public du 7 septembre au 26 décembre 2021, dans le respect des mesures sanitaires, avec un vernissage prévu le 6 septembre à 19h, précédé d’une table-ronde en présence de Jérôme Delay à 18h.
A la tête de la division Afrique de l’Associated Press, Jérôme Delay a couvert de nombreux conflits dans le monde entier. Cette exposition propose le témoignage intime du photographe sur son époque et son métier à travers une sélection de photographies qui ont fait la une des grands événements de l’histoire de ces trente dernières années. Parmi eux : le siège de Sarajevo, en 1992 ; le conflit israélo-palestinien, que Jérôme Delay a suivi de 1993 à 2004 ; la guerre d’Afghanistan, que le photographe a documenté dès ses débuts, de 2001 à 2009 ; les conflits africains sur la période 2008-2020 ; le drame du Bataclan qui a secoué la France le 13 novembre 2015 et la pandémie de Covid-19 en Afrique.
Présentation du photo-journaliste
Jérôme Delay avec les forces nigériennes dans le nord du Nigéria pendant une opération contre Boko Haram. Photo faite le 17 octobre 2017 par Tyler Hicks du New York Times.
BIOGRAPHIE / Né en 1960 à Nevers, Jérôme Delay a toujours voulu être photo-journaliste. Il a étudié le journalisme à l’université de Columbia (Caroline du Sud, Etats-Unis). Il commence sa carrière comme photo-journaliste pigiste à l’Associated Press dans le Colorado (Etats-Unis) de 1982 à 1984. Il rejoint ensuite l’équipe de l’Agence France Presse (AFP) comme correspondant à la Maison blanche (1984-1991). Puis, de nouveau Associated Press, qu’il n’a plus quitté depuis bientôt 30 ans. Il a été envoyé à Washington, Jérusalem, Paris et Johannesbourg (où il est à la tête de la division Afrique depuis 2005). Il a couvert la plupart des conflits majeurs des trente dernières années : la guerre de Sarajevo (1992-1995), le conflit israélo-palestinien (1993-2004), la guerre d’Afghanistan (2001-2009), les guerres en Afrique (depuis 2005) ainsi que le drame du Bataclan, à Paris, en 2015.
DISTINCTIONS / Jérôme Delay a été finaliste deux fois au prix Pulitzer. Il a reçu le Gramling Award for Journalistic Excellence pour la couverture de la chute de Baghdad (prix AP), il a été médaillé plusieurs fois au “Picture of the year », recompense par l’Overseas Press Club of America avec le prix d’excellence John Faber pour son travail sur la République Centrafricaine. Il a remporté le prix de l’association des photographes de presse de la Maison blanche (1991), le prix du public décerné par le Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie des correspondants de guerre pour son reportage pour Associated Press sur les troubles au Congo (2009), le prix Marco Luchetta de la photographie humanitaire de Trieste, Italie (2010), première place du prix international chinois de la photo de presse (2016)…
PRIX BAYEUX / Très impliqué dans le Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie des correspondants de guerre, Jérôme Delay est une nouvelle fois membre du jury pour l’édition 2021 (du 4 au 10 octobre 2021).
Présentation de l’exposition
PARENTHESE 2021
Au retour de Visa pour l’image
Carte blanche à Jérôme Delay Photo-journaliste Associated Press du 7 septembre au 26 décembre 2021
CONTEXTE / Jérôme Delay a sélectionné une centaine de photographies d’événements qui l’ont marqué personnellement, la plupart du temps des moments historiques avec une importance géopolitique majeure : chute de Baghdad, siège de Sarajevo, début de la guerre en Afghanistan, attentats du Bataclan, opération Barkhane au Mali… « Pour la série sur les attentats du Bataclan, par exemple, j’ai sélectionné des photographies avec des visages émotifs qui comme des auto- portraits, un miroir de ce que je ressentais aussi à ce moment-là », explique Jérôme Delay. Parmi les photographies présentées, nombreuses ont fait la Une des grands journaux internationaux (Le Monde, Washington Post, New York Times, etc.). Des archives ont été collectées pour l’exposition et y sont également présentées.
UNE CERTAINE VISION / A travers cette exposition, le photographe partage aussi sa vision du métier de photo-journaliste. Celle d’un journaliste témoin de l’histoire, qui se doit de documenter les événements pour informer, tout simplement. « Mon rôle c’est de raconter notre planète, de voir ce qu’il se passe, de photographier et de documenter pour rendre les gens responsables, conscients et éventuellement provoquer le changement. La presse est le troisième pouvoir. » Jérôme Delay.
TRANSMISSION / Le photo-journaliste souhaite également, à travers cette exposition, favoriser la transmission du métier de photo-journaliste. « Je pense qu’il est très important d’éduquer notamment la presse locale pour enrayer cet amas d’informations et d’images sur les réseaux sociaux. Nous avons besoin de personnes responsables à qui l’on peut faire confiance. » Jérôme Delay.
Photographies de l’exposition
Légendes des photographies de gauche à droite
BATACLAN
FILE – In this Nov. 13, 2015 file photo a victim of an attack in Paris lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. Three years later, Samy Amimour returned from Syria, gunned down dozens of his countrymen at a rock show, and died inside the Bataclan with a suicide belt strapped to his body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)A woman carrying flowers cries in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after a series of attacks in Paris. French officials said scores of people died Friday night when attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside a concert hall during a rock show. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A man looks out the bullet ridden windows of the Carillon cafe in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A man carries a plant to place in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris, Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris. French President Francois Hollande said at least 127 people died Friday night when at least eight attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside a concert hall during a rock show. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)People gather in front of the Belle Equipe bar in Paris, France, Sunday Nov. 145, 2015, two days after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country’s deadliest violence since World War II(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Flowers are set in a window shattered by a bullet at the Carillon cafe in Paris, France, Sunday Nov. 15, 2015, two days after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country’s deadliest violence since World War II.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)People react in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)People react in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)People gather in front of Le Carillon cafe, a site of the recent attacks, in Paris, Monday Nov. 16, 2015. French President Francois Hollande says the Paris attacks targeted “youth in all its diversity” and that the victims were of 19 different nationalities. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)People react in front of the Carillon cafe and the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris Saturday Nov. 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
AFRIQUE
A Kikuyu man is attacked by rioters in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Rioters attacked a bus full of people as they faced off against police who they charged were unfairly arresting people for rents gone unpaid amid weeks of postelection violence. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)An unidentified woman looks through the shattered rear window of the car after it was hit by bricks outside a church in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday May 18, 2008. Mobs killed at least five people and injured 50 in anti-foreigner violence Sunday that has spread through poor suburbs of Johannesburg, police said. Foreigners, mainly Zimbabweans, were targeted, police spokeswoman Cheryl Engelbrecht said. More than 300 had sought refuge at the local police station, she said. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A displaced Congolese runs with an umbrella during a rain storm in the Kibati camp north of Goma, eastern Congo, Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008. Congo’s government on Tuesday rejected rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s demand for direct talks to solve the crisis in eastern Congo, where fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Guinean police detain a supporters of UFDG presidential candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo suspected of throwing stones and looting in Conakry, Guinea, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. The optimism and pride that marked Guinea’s first democratic election has faded even before the votes are tallied, as early results show the two candidates, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Conde, are neck-and-neck, prompting both sides to accuse the other of fraud and heightening tension in a nation that has never chosen its leader freely.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A supporter of Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi is grabbed by a Congolese riot police officer outside his candidate’s headquarters in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday Dec. 8, 2011. Partial results issued by Congo’s electoral commission overnight make it all but certain that President Joseph Kabila will be declared the winner, setting the stage for possible clashes between his backers and those loyal to the main opposition candidate. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party’s Imbonerakure youth militia, pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators after he came out of hiding in a sewer in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015. Niyonzima fled from his house into the sewer under a hail of stones thrown by a mob protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term in office. At least one protestor has died in clashed with the widely feared Imbonerakure militias and police, sending scores to the streets seeking revenge. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Christian man chases a suspected Seleka officer in civilian clothes with a knife near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Monday Dec. 9, 2013. Both Christian and Muslim mobs went on lynching sprees as French Forces deployed in the capital. The Seleka man was taken into custody by French forces who fired warning shots to disperse the crowds. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)GRAPHIC CONTENT – Newly enlisted FACA (Central African Armed Forces) soldiers drag the lifeless body of a suspected Muslim Seleka militiaman moments after Central African Republic Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza addressed the troops in Bangui, Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014. The victim was lynched by hundreds of recruits, pelting him with bricks and mutilating his body with knives. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls to prevent radical Islamic fighters from returning to this embattled city in northern Mali. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Malian man dressed in green walks between green doors of closed shops in Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013. Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secure the strategic north Malian city, a French official said Tuesday, as the international force put further pressure on the Islamic extremists to push them out of their last major bastion of control in the north.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Peul women sit in a house across the Nour Islam mosque where they found refuge in Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. More than 500 people have been killed over the past week in sectarian fighting in Central African Republic, aid officials said Tuesday, as France reported that gunmen fatally shot two of its soldiers who were part of the intervention to disarm thousands of rebels accused of attacking civilians. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia,Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014. Three members of District 13 ambulance service traveled to the village to pickup six suspected Ebola sufferers that had been quarantined by villagers. Aid donations are still inadequate, as the international community tries to increase the ability to care for the spiraling number of people infected with the disease which has hit Liberia the hardest. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)In this picture taken Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Zali Idy, 12, poses in her bedroom in the remote village of Hawkantaki, Niger. Zali was married in 2011. In January 2012, soon after she turned 12, she was carried on a bullock cart to her 23-year-old husband’s home. Even during the best of times, one out of every three girls in Niger marries before her 15th birthday, a rate of child marriage among the highest in the world, according to a UNICEF survey. Now this custom is being layered on top of a crisis. At times of severe drought, parents pushed to the wall by poverty and hunger are marrying their daughters at even younger ages. A girl married off is one less mouth to feed, and the dowry money she brings in goes to feed others. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) PART OF A 15-PICTURE PACKAGE BY JEROME DELAYBurundi riot police detain a man suspected of throwing stones during clashes in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Tuesday April 28, 2015. Anti-government street demonstrations continued for a third day after six people died in protests against the move by President Pierre Nkurunziza to seek a third term. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Bystanders stand by a French APC as a French Puma transport helicopter lands to test the field in the center of Niono, some 400 kms (300 miles) North of the capital Bamako Sunday Jan. 20, 2013. French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday, trying to stop radical Islamists from striking against communities closer to the capital and cutting off their supply line, a French official said. The move around Diabaly came as French and Malian authorities said that the city whose capture prompted the French military intervention in the first place was no longer in the hands of the extremists. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Riot police chase a demonstrator in Bujumbura, Burundi, Monday, May 4, 2015. Anti-government demonstrations resumed in Burundi’s capital after a weekend pause as thousands continue to protest the president’s decision to seek a third term. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Congolese women run after Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battled for hours over the eastern Congolese town of Sake , 27 kilometers (17 miles) west of Goma, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The woman in orange only identified as Mamou, said she lost her husband to a fatal wound to the head from incoming mortar round. Thousands fled the M23 controlled town as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Maasai men converse under a tree after they cast their ballots in Eseki, 140 kms (85miles) south of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. Kenyans on Tuesday voted in an election that pits President Uhuru Kenyatta against challenger Raila Odinga in an East African economic hub known for its relative, long-term stability as well as the ethnic allegiances that shadow its democracy. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Kimenua Ngoie, 22, sits on her hospital bed at the Katuba Reference Hospital in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Ngoie, who lost her baby at birth following a C-section, has been effectively imprisoned by the hospital for the past there month, unable to pay the $360 costs of her operation. An Associated Press investigation found that of more than 20 hospitals and clinics visited in Lubumbashi, all but one detain patients, an illegal practice according to the Congolese penal code. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Supporters of opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi cheers their candidate at the UDPS party headquarters in Kinshasa Friday Dec. 21, 2018. Tshisekedi said his coalition accepts a week-long delay in the presidential election until Sunday Dec. 30, 2018, but not one day more. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Health workers wearing protective suits tend to to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. The Congolese health ministry is confirming the country’s first Ebola case in the provincial capital of 2 million, Goma, some 360 kilometers (225 miles) south of Beni. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Residents of the densely populated Hillbrow neighborhood of downtown Johannesburg, confined in an attempt to prevent the spread coronavirus, stand and wave from their balconies, Friday, March 27, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to mitigate the spread to the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)South African National Defense Forces patrol the Men’s Hostel in the densely populated Alexandra township east of Johannesburg, Saturday, March 28, 2020, enforcing a strict lockdown in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Henry sits in a bin as he and other homeless people rest at the Caledonian stadium downtown Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday April 2, 2020, after being rounded up by police in an effort to enforce a 21-day lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus. Many of them being addicted, are receiving methadone syrup from a local NGO, and were complaining about the lack of sanitizer and soap. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Residents of Yeoville neighborhood of Johannesburg, South Africa, wait in line to enter a grocery store Friday April 3, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Phoeswa, a South African traditional medicine pharmacist, waits for customers in the densely populated Alexandra township of Johannesburg, Monday April 6, 2020. More than half of Africa’s 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. he new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Relatives grieve Benedict Somi Vilakasi at his burial ceremony at the Nasrec Memorial Park outside Johannesburg Thursday, April 16, 2020. Vilakasi, a Soweto coffee shop manager, died of COVID-19 infection in a Johannesburg hospital Sunday April 12, 2020. South Africa is under a strict five-week lockdown in a effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Pallbearers wearing personal protective equipment suits lift the casket containing the remains of Benedict Somi Vilakasi for his burial ceremony at the Nasrec Memorial Park outside Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Vilakasi, a Soweto coffee shop manager, died of COVID-19 in a Johannesburg hospital Sunday, April 12 2020. South Africa is under a strict five-week lockdown in a effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Homeless people waiting to receive food baskets from private donors, get their hands sanitized Monday, April 13, 2020 downtown Johannesburg. Because of South Africa’s imposed lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, many are not able to work. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A residents from the Alexandra township gets tested for COVID-19 , in Johannesburg, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. South Africa will begin a phased easing of its strict lockdown measures on May 1, although confirmed cases of coronavirus continue to increase. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Recently filled graves are seen in the Olifantsveil Cemetery outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Aug. 5, 2020. The frequency of burials in South Africa has significantly increased during the coronavirus pandemic, as the country became one of the top five worst-hit nation. New infection numbers around the world are a reminder that a return to normal life is still far from sight. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
AFGHANISTAN
Afghan women who were walking from Kunduz, Afghanistan, to escape the fighting, pass the remains of a tank outside the frontline village of Chuga, Thursday, Nov. 22 2001. (AP PHOTO/Jerome Delay)Defecting Taliban fighters, wearing turbans, are met by northern alliance soldiers on the front line near the village of Amirabad, between Kunduz and Taloqan, Saturday Nov. 24 2001. Hundreds of Taliban defected to the northern alliance Saturday, paving the way for the fall of Kunduz where several thousand foreign fighters are said to remain. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)An Afghan guard rides a horse outside the Tornak Farm, Al Qaida training camp on the southern outskirt of Kandahar airport, Wednesday Dec. 12, 2001. The man claimed the horse was one of the four owned by Osama Bin Laden when he was at the camp. Two of the horses died stepping on land mines, the man said. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Najeeba Mugal, 13, right, and her sisters Laleema and Aminia, left and center, Afghan refugees who arrived in Quetta, Pakistan from Afghanistan with their family earlier in the week, stand in the four-square-meter mud house they seeked refuge in Friday, Sept. 28, 2001. The United Nations warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophy as tens of thousands of Afghans are expected to seek refuge in Pakistan, in anticipation of U.S. retaliatory strikes against Kabul’s Taliban rulers. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Toy gun is lifted over the crowd between two posters of Osama bin Laden during a pro-Taliban demonstration organized by the Jammiat Ulama-e-Islam religious party in the Baluchistan province capital Quetta, Pakistan, Monday Oct. 15 2001. Thousands demonstrated on a day of general strike called to protest U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Pakistan. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Defecting Taliban fighters maneuver a tank through the front line near the village of Amirabad, between Kunduz and Taloqan, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001. Hundreds of Taliban defected to the northern alliance Saturday, paving the way for the fall of Kunduz where several thousand foreign fighters are said to remain. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Afghans look through the window into the bedroom of Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Omar as they go through his compound on the outskirt of the Afghan city of Kandahar Tuesday Dec 11 2001.The machine gun belongs to Karzai fighters, as Hamid Karzai is staying in Omar’s former residence. The city was calm Tuesday, as Afghan forces loyal to Gulagha fan through the area along with US and British forces in an effort to look for clues in the whereabouts of Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Omar. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Abdul Kayum flashes a thumbs-up as he drives his damaged minivan on the road near the airport in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001. Kayum said he had stopped on the road linking Herat to Kandahar two weeks ago to pray, when his minivan was hit by an airstrike. Thanking God, he started his minivan, which still worked, and resumed his journey.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
ISRAËL/PALESTINE
Palestinians pelt an Israeli jeep with stones from behind a barricade on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Israel warned the Palestinians on Sunday that it might target their commanders if violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip did not stop within a day, and that it would then view peace talks as “abandoned.” (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Pope John Paul II rests his hand on the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem Sunday, March 26, 2000. The pontiff, on the last day of his six-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visited the three holy sites of Temple Mount, the Western Wall, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Palestinian youth covers himself from incoming Israeli fire, as other Palestinian youth pelt Israeli troops with stones during clashes on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah Monday, Oct. 9, 2000. Palestinians and Israelis exchanged gunfire Monday, hours before the deadline on Israel’s ultimatum to the Palestinians to end the violence or face “forceful” action. World leaders stepped up their efforts to stem the crisis. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT–Palestinian paramedics rush Thaer Omar Hassan, 17, to an ambulance after he was fatally shot in the head during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Ramallah Friday Oct. 20, 2000. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Palestinian youth hurls stones in the West Bank city of Ramallah during clashes following the funerals of two of the city’s residents Sunday, November 12, 2000. More confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli troops broke out Sunday, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Jewish settler fires on a crowd of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron Friday, December 3, 1993. Four Palestinians were reportedly injured. The settlers were going on a rampage through the city following the stoning of their leader Rabbi Moshe Levinger’s car earlier in the day. The Israeli army did not interfere with the shootings. Soldiers chased Palestinians who started to throw stones at the gunmen. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)SIXTH IN A SERIES OF SIX IMAGES–A Palestinian gunmen shot dead by an Israeli sniper is rushed out of the area during fighting in the West Bank city of Ramallah Friday March 29 2002. Sporadic gunfire and tank shell fire can be heard as Israeli forces enter Ramallah. Israel declared Yasser Arafat an enemy and sent tanks and troops charging into his West Bank compound Friday, where they battled his security forces as part a major military operation in response to Palestinian terror attacks that killed 27 Israeli civilians in three days. The unprecedented raid came as Israel’s Cabinet approved an extended, large-scale military operation and agreed to call up reserves(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)** FOR USE AS DESIRED, PHOTOS OF THE DECADE ** FILE – Palestinian men surrender to Israeli Defense Forces in downtown Ramallah , in this March 30, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)FILE–PLO leader Yasser Arafat, left, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, center, and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin each hold their Nobel Peace Prize in this Dec.10, 1994 file photo. Peres, the architect of the peace process that ended Israel’s isolation and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, pledged on Friday May 31, 1996 to continue to fight for peace after handing over the post of prime minister to Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)An Israeli soldier, foreground, provides cover from an angry crowd as two other Israeli soldiers drag a Palestinian child suspected of stone-throwing during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron in this Sept. 26, 1995 photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Leah Rabin, center, widow of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, weeps as the coffin carrying the remains of her husband is lowered in the grave at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem Monday Nov. 6 1995. From left are: Yuval Rabin, son of Rabin, Leah Rabin, granddaughter Noa Ben Artzi, Dalia Pelossof and grandson Yonatan Ben-Artzi. Both grandchildren are children of Pelossof.(AP PHOTO/Jerome Delay)
BAGHDAD
Death row prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail 35 kilometers (21 miles) northwest of Baghdad shout from their cells Sunday, Oct. 20, 2002, as hundreds of Iraqis stormed the jail following the annoucement by Saddam Hussein that most prisoners were going to be freed. Tens of thousands of prisoners were greeted by their relatives and friends upon their release throughout Iraq. Only death row inmates were not released. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Soon to be Iraqi newlyweds sit under a poster of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad before the start of a group wedding of 155 couples Monday, Oct. 21, 2002. Each received a suit, a dress, and cash from the Iraqi government who also offered the reception. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A young Iraqi girl in military uniform shouts patriotic slogans during a gathering celebrating the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the general federation of Iraqi youth, a branch of the Baath party, in Baghdad, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2002. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Iraqi youth enjoy rides in a small Baghdad amusement park Tuesday Feb. 11 2003, on the first day of the Eid El-Adha. The Eid El Adha, also known as the feast of sacrifice, is a four-day religious holiday which commemorates God’s provision of a ram to substitute for Abraham’s impending sacrifice of his son. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Huge columns of smoke can be seen above the southern horizon of Baghdad Saturday, March 22, 2003.. Sporadic explosions were heard in the capital Saturday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Smoke from burning oil fires set ablaze by Iraqis as a shield against incoming missiles and air raids obscures Baghdad Tuesday April 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)** FOR USE AS DESIRED, PHOTOS OF THE DECADE ** FILE – Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, in this April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)Two Iraqi women carry furniture away from an Iraqi government office building on fire downtown Baghdad Friday April 11 2003. Widespread looting continues in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
SARAJEVO
ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MAY 4–NINTH OF 11 PHOTOS BY JEROME DELAY–FILE–Bosko Brkic, a Serb, and his Muslim girlfriend Admira Ismic, lie dead in a quiet embrace in a no man’s land between Bosnian Serb and Bosnian government front lines in Sarajevo on May 24, 1993. The couple was killed while trying to slip out of the war-torn city. Due to heavy sniper fire in the area, it was weeks before the boides could be recovered. They are now buried together in Sarajevo. (AP Photo/File/Jerome Delay)Participants in the “Miss Besieged Sarajevo 93” beauty pageant line up on stage in front of a packed audience in Sarajevo Saturday, May 29, 1993. The 13 contenders held a banner reading: “Don’t Let Them Kill Us” during the opening number of the pageant. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A French U.N. soldier stands alongside a group of Sarajevans seeking shelter behind a French U.N. armoured personnel carrier from sniper-fire after being rescued from their van by French U.N. peacekeepers at a dangerous Sarajevo intersection Thursday June 8, 1995. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Blood stains cover the wreckage of patients’ rooms at Sarajevo’s Kosevo Hospital on June 16, 1995 after a shell slammed into it killing two and injuring six. The hit wing was then evacuated. Government forces assaulted rebel Serbs around Sarajevo, thrusting to cut off vital supply routes and bolster Bosnia’s chances to break the Serb’s three-year siege of the city. (AP Photo)U.N. Commander General Philippe Morillon of France, flanked by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, left, and Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, right, addresses reporters in Pale, May 18, 1993, following a two and half hour meeting on the future of peace negotiations for Bosnia. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)An elderly Sarajevo resident runs, Tuesday, June 6, 1995 through Sarajevo’s Bare Cemetery as a Bosnian Serb sniper opens fire moments before the planned funeral ceremony for Suad Arnautovic was to begin. Arnautovic was killed June 3 during shelling in Sarajevo. His funeral was postponed. Sniping activity and shelling in the besieged Bosnian capital increased Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
