September 11th, 2011. Ten years have gone by. The first big shock of the 21st century. Everyone remembers where they were. Everyone remembers a picture. Tens of thousands were taken that day. The entire world published them, discovered them, saved them. However September 11th was the last ...

09.09.2011[ read full story ]

Five years ago, during one of the evening screenings at Campo Santo, Jean-François Leroy gave a very emotional tribute to his friend Mark Grosset, who died too young, at the age of 49 on August 14, 2006, tribute that deeply moved the “Visa pour l’image” company. Mark was one of the most ferven...

02.09.2011[ read full story ]

“The zone”, France 24-RFI Prize for “webdoc” (web documentary)
This web-documentary, co-produced by Agat Films and Le Monde was directed by two journalists Bruno Masi and Guillaume Herbaut, a well-known photojournalist at “Visa pour l’image”. The project focuses on Chern...

01.09.2011[ read full story ]

Jean Desaunois, founder of the photographic press agency Imapress, representing Camera press in Paris, died on Monday, May 23, 2011. He was 77. The funeral was held in Capbis, the small south western village in France where he had been mayor since 1...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

From Amsterdam on May 7, Jodi Bieber, a South African World Press prize winning photographer, made an emotional appeal to call attention to the disappearance of her colleague Anton Hammerl, 41.

23.05.2011[ read full story ]

Richard Steinheimer, the acknowledged “Dean” of western railroad photography, passed away quietly on May 4, 2011, in Sacramento, California, after a long illness. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 23, 1929, he migrated to Southern California at the age of six ...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

On Tuesday, May 24th, hundreds of mourners gathered inside the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City to begin — in the words of Sebastian Junger — “the process of living in a world without Tim.”

25.05.2011[ read full story ]

In response to last Friday’s homage to Harry Lunn, his son Christophe wrote “The Hank O’Neal picture you selected was the last portrait taken of my father, in 1998, at Berenice Abbott’s 100th anniversary celebration. Every year, on her birthday, a small group of ...

16.05.2011[ read full story ]

Gunter Sachs killed himself this week-end. He was 78. A note was released by his family to the Swiss news agency SDA/ATS and made public according to the 78 year-old’s wishes, the agency reported. “The loss of mental control over my life was an undignified condition, wh...

09.05.2011[ read full story ]

A few days ago, Harry Lunn would have celebrated his 78th birthday. For many people, his flamboyance, his knowledge of photography, his generosity, his excesses and his mood swings are missing. New York art dealer Peter Hay Halpert is one of those people.

13.05.2011[ read full story ]