With a series of pictures about poverty amongst students, two students from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts (École Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs Strasbourg) won Paris Match’s (a french weekly magazine) annual prize for student photojournalism. The intersting point and the problem (at least for the jury of Paris Match) was that those pictures were not documentary reality but purposely posed – a mocumentary.

The cheque with the prize money was blocked after the two creators, Guillaume Chauvin and Rémi Hubert, read out their statement, that “they had wanted to make a powerful artistic gesture attacking the voyeurism and gullibility of parts of the press.” (The Independent)

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