Camille Leprince graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris with a Master’s Degree in International Affairs. She has worked extensively with international NGOs on cultural, humanitarian and political affairs, especially in regions in transition. She has an advanced command of Russian. Her professional career focused first on the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on central Europe (Czech Republic) and post-Soviet countries (North and South Caucasus, Russia), and then on northern Africa and the Middle East (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria) and the effects of the Arab Spring.
Since 2012, she has managed various collective multimedia projects in collaboration with citizen journalists and artists. Her own projects include Fabriq Algeria, a webdocumentary on Algeria’s new generation of artists, broadcast by French and Algerian media (Mediapart & El Watan); and Ma Guernica, about female icons and gender issues, broadcast by Radio RFI & TV5 Monde. She also regularly cooperates with the literary review Riveneuve Continents.
Entre novembre 2013 et février 2014, des centaines de milliers de personnes se rassemblaient à Kiev et ailleurs, plusieurs d’entre elles y laissaient leur vie. Le refus de l’accord d’association entre l’Ukraine et l’Union européenne par le président Viktor Ianoukovitch représentait l’une de ces gouttes d’eau qui font déborder l’histoire récente d’un pays déjà emplie de drames et de soubresauts, tandis que sa population revendique de plus en plus sa volonté de prendre son destin en main.