Patrick Chauvel

File:Patrick Chauvel-Salon du livre en Bretagne 2012.jpg

Patrick Chauvel (born 1949 in France) is an independent war photographer whose career began when he was just 17 years old.{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-war-photographer-patrick-chauvel.htm|title=Interview With War Photographer Patrick Chauvel|publisher=World History Group|date=7 September 2012|website=History Net|access-date=26 February 2016}}

He has covered more than twenty conflicts all over the world, including the Six-Day War and the Vietnam War. In 1995 he was awarded the World Press Photo commendation for Spot News Stories for his coverage of the Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War.[http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/year/1995/trefwoord/category/Spot%20News%20stories?limit=20 World Press Photo: 1995, Patrick Chauvel, 1st prize, Spot News stories]

He is also author of some documentary movies.{{cite web|url=http://www.ridm.qc.ca/ridm6.e/prog.hommage.chauvel.html|title=Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM): Listings|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022803/http://www.ridm.qc.ca/ridm6.e/prog.hommage.chauvel.html|archivedate=2007-09-28}}

On 21 December 1989 during the Invasion of Panama he was critically wounded to the belly by two rounds shot by Marines; Juan Antonio Rodriguez (El Pais) was killed.Truth needs no ally: inside photojournalism pp316-317

After the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, he allegedly saw time stamped photographs from a speed camera showing the Mercedes entering the fatal tunnel.{{cite book|

title=The Murder of Princess Diana

|first=Noel

|last= Botham

|author-link=Noel Botham

|edition= reissue

|publisher= Kensington Pub. Corp.

|year=2004

|isbn=978-0-7860-0700-4

|page= 240

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0pVQgvw9sUC

|accessdate=2009-09-10

}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BL-PuO5ke7EC|

title=Cover-up of a Royal Murder: Hundreds of Errors in the Paget Report

|first=John

|last= Morgan

|publisher=Lulu.com

|year=2008

|isbn=978-1-84753-655-6

|page=279

}}

Author of two books in French, the autobiographical Rapporteur de Guerre (2003) and the novel Sky (2005).

Also participated in 24h.com-neo media projects{{Cite web |url=http://www.24h.com/photographe-24h.php?phA=74 |title=24h.com Patrick Chauvel |access-date=2011-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919034521/http://24h.com/photographe-24h.php?phA=74 |archive-date=2011-09-19 |url-status=dead }} and in the [http://www.conditionone.com/ Condition One] project.