‘If you don’t have a witness, you don’t have a crime’ says French photojournalist Patrick Chauvel

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French photojournalist and war photographer Patrick Chauvel has covered over thirty conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia and Iraq – and now Ukraine. He explains how his early appetite for adventure soon evolved into an impulse that would go on to shape his life profoundly: a desire to tell the stories of people who find themselves caught up in extraordinary – and often horrifying – circumstances.