Print run of 280,000 copies

It's rare, in a photoreporter's career, to see one of your photos printed in 280,000 copies. In my case, it's not one but two photos that will benefit from this print run — and in an unusual format.

Today, 18 October 2019, Le Carré d'Encre released for "first-day" sale a block of three stamps spotlighting certain activities of the French Red Cross. This block, titled "A chain of solidarity to fight precarity," was designed by Aurélie Baras.

Layout by Aurélie Baras

Photo credits: Nicolas Beaumont for the top of the block and the Food Aid stamp; Noël le Boyer (DR) for the Healthcare Access stamp; Philippe Koch for the Clothing Aid stamp.

It consists of four photographs: three stamps and the block's illustration. The healthcare-access and clothing-aid activities are the work of Noël le Boyer and Philippe Koch.

For my part, I have the pleasure of illustrating food aid with a photograph taken in a social grocery, and the block with a crop of a photo taken during the French Red Cross operation after Hurricane Irma struck Saint Martin.