ABSTRACT

Marion Mertens is the senior digital editor of Paris Match, a weekly French-language magazine that covers national, international, and entertainment news. Mertens oversees content on all web, social media, and mobile formats at Paris Match, including the magazine’s daily edition on Snapchat Discover. Mertens began her career as a “news desker” at Gamma Press Images, and was later a photo assignment editor for Gamma Liaison in New York. This chapter presents an interview of Mertens in which she discusses her career as a photography journalist. In the interview, Mertens also shares her experience in capturing photos of some incidences in Bangladesh, Syria, and Libya.