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Marianne Barriaux
Journalist based in Madrid.
AFP / Gabriel Bouys

Everything is illuminated

Tuesday 30 January 2018

"The legendary war photographer Robert Capa once said, 'if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,'" writes Gabriel Bouys, a Madrid-based photographer who covered one of Spain's most infamous festivals alongside reporter Marianne Barriaux.

"I wonder if he’s ever photographed the Las Luminarias festival in Spain."

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AFP / Josep Lago

Catalonia passions

Wednesday 29 November 2017

"Catalonia... A difficult crisis to cover," writes Madrid-based correspondent Marianne Barriaux. "Totally unpredictable, at times hair-tearingly infuriating and so full of passion it's alarming."

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When terror unravels at home

Sunday 11 January 2015

"As a journalist, I've covered some dramatic events in the past -- natural disasters in China come to mind or the conflict in Ukraine. But I never thought I'd see a bloodbath in Paris, my home city," writes AFP's Marianne Barriaux. "Why was I - am I still - so shaken by Friday's siege at the Porte de Vincennes in Paris?"

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