For more than two decades, Canon Ambassador Jérôme Sessini has travelled the world covering breaking news stories, as well as working on long-term personal projects, including a series about the impact of the drug wars in Mexico. "On weekends in summer, the families of Ciudad Juárez [a Mexican border town] come to relax on the banks of the Rio Bravo at the boundary of the border between Mexico and the United States," says Jérôme of this 2009 image. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D (now succeeded by the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV) with a Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM lens (now succeeded by the Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM) at 1/250 sec, f/11 and ISO100. © Jérôme Sessini/Magnum Photos
Canon Ambassador Jérôme Sessini is a Magnum photographer who has covered some of the most significant events of the past 20 years. He also takes on long-term projects, studying the drug cartel wars on the Mexican/US border, the crisis in Ukraine
and America's ongoing battle with opioid addiction.
Through his lens, Jérôme has shot political upheaval, social rebellion and human struggle. His move to reportage came in 1998 when he was asked by the Gamma photo agency to cover the conflict in Kosovo. He's since been immersed in some of the most significant events of recent years, including the Iraq War, the fall of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, the seizure of Somalian capital Mogadishu by Islamic militias, the war in Lebanon in 2006 and the ongoing conflict in Syria. His photographs have one common thread – they seek to dig below the news to capture scenes representing wider issues.