Look This Way Please, Madame Minister!

Source: Internships in Francophone Europe
Author: Unknown
Publication Date: April 01, 2009

Article Abstract:

Will Napier, photojournalism major, is partaking in exciting opportunities abroad.

Lead:

"Hey Will, we need a photo-portrait of the Minister; grab your camera and run upstairs!" Well, it probably didn’t happen just like that, but in any case as part of his duties with the photography bureau of the Communications Department of the French Ministry of the Interior, Will Napier, photojournalism major at Goucher College, was called upon to photograph Michèle Alliot-Marie, or "MAM", Minister of the Interior. During the shoot they fell into conversation, Ms. Alliot-Marie being quite curious about this new rather exotic recruit to the Ministry’s staff. Since then he has regularly been assigned to photograph the Minister with international visitors. More recently, Will was on assignment in Strasbourg for the NATO meetings, far from the plush carpets and 17th century panelling of State reception halls. Covering the events at street level required dodging his share of projectiles and passing clouds of tear gas, until he was assigned to photograph President Sarkozy welcoming President Obama to France – from the tower of the Strasbourg cathedral, where he shared space with a contingent of snipers! After all, they all work for the same Ministry...

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