About
My path is guided by a passionate love affair with writing.
About me
Mélissa Riffaut,
I am a reporter
and photojournalist based in Geneva, with my eyes turned toward the world. My work lies at the intersection of human rights, social issues, and the memory of peoples.
Across lands and borders, I seek encounters with humanity.
Methodology
My journalism is a journey into the heart of identities: to understand, to listen, and to defend what shapes the soul of peoples.
From remote villages to restless megacities, I go where stories are passed on differently: through a glance, a silence, an often unseen struggle. Through my reporting, I pay tribute to women’s resistance in the face of sexual violence such as genital mutilation, to the voices of Indigenous communities, to cultures fighting to exist, and to traditions in the process of reinventing themselves. Attentive to the social dynamics that shape history, I gather fragments of dignity where injustice weighs heavy, and I walk alongside those who defend their land, their bodies, and their identities.
My work is made of encounters, of listening, and of light — the kind we capture, but above all the kind we reveal.
