French court bans Yan Morvan’s latest photobook

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French court bans Yan Morvan’s latest photobook

Yan Morvan has been documenting gangs in France’s suburbs for 40 years, he’s followed the Hell’s Angels, Skinheads and even serial killer Guy Georges, who took him hostage in 1995 and tortured him for three weeks. This experience forced Morvan to call it

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2285211/french-court-bans-yan-morvans-latest-photobook

A French court has ordered photographer Yan Morvan to withdraw his photobook Gangs Story from bookstores and to pay a €5000 fine after it found that he had breached one of his subjects’ right to control his own image

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