Hélène Franchineau - Turkey - Freelance

2019-11-03

Capturing the perfect moment is essential for visual journalists. For two stories by Hélène Franchineau (instagram: @helene_fr), the critical images were moments of reunion. First, she tells the odyssey of Chinese migrant workers going home for Chinese New Year, the only chance to see their children and family each year. And then the story of a Uyghur man jailed in Turkey, likely under pressure from China. Hélène is a freelancer visual journalist based in Turkey but takes us through France, China and Africa. Her penc...

Hélène talks about growing up in small town France where her China obsession began (8:20), her move to China and first journalism gigs (15:52), going to j-school in New York/Paris for a master's degree (18:51), getting a job at South China Morning Post in Hong Kong (24:28), moving to Beijing to work for the Associated Press (28:21), how she got from China to Turkey (32:15), her story on trafficking of adorable pangolins from Africa to China (37:52), her short doc about Chinese migrant workers returning home for the holidays (42:31) and a Uyghur man who is caught up in Turkey's efforts to please China (50:52). And, of course, the lightning round (56:58).

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Foreign Correspondence on Youtube - http://bit.ly/foreignpodyoutube

NGO World Vision's website - http://bit.ly/34pCbaA

China culture website Shanghaiist - http://bit.ly/2qbFyTM

Hélène's story on pangolin trafficking - http://bit.ly/2pCguoN (video) http://bit.ly/2NCLqNR (text)

Story on Chinese migrants returning home - http://bit.ly/2pqCIu7 (video) http://bit.ly/34pP7x3 (text)

Her story about Uyghur man's arrest in Turkey - http://bit.ly/2Nysik7

New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Twitter - http://bit.ly/2C2CqvY

BBC's From Our Own Correspondent podcast - https://bbc.in/34h0zLs

Photographer Lynsey Addario's website - http://bit.ly/2WCWkqW

Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats

From: freemusicarchive.org