Today, many millions of Sygma’s photographs, black and white and color originals are sleeping in a bunker near Dreux…” The man that said this, with a dry but calm tone, his voice tainted with anger and emotion is Hubert Henrotte, 77, retired, laid off from the company he created ...

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According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali Transitional Federal Government, which relies on Western aid to survive, is fielding hundreds of children on front lines, some as young as nine, in their fight against Islamic insurgents. Child soldiers are deplo...

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The exhibition shows the situation of the mentally ill in China, in hospital, at home, and homeless. In 1989 and 1990, Lu Nan traveled through ten provinces and had contact with 14,000 mental patients in 38 hospitals. He visited the homes of more than 100 mentally ill persons and others who...

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Thousands of children in Africa have been abandoned and are living in prison, with adults, in conditions so extreme that their survival is at stake. Overcrowding, violence, sexual harassment, promiscuity, malnutrition, poor hygiene, infectious diseases, and lack of m...

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It was full service for Paris Match covering the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya with no fewer than 24 photographers on assignment for the magazine, asserting its reputation as leader in photoreporting. The exhibition extends from Tunis to Tripoli via Cairo, with eye witness views by ...

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Ever since 1999 and the military coup d'état led by General Robert Guei, the Ivory Coast has had a series of coups d'état, elections and ceasefires. Issouf Sanogo has observed and recorded events there for more than ten years.
Throughout the conflict, he has covered clashes between rebel...

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Visa pour l’image presents every year the work by the winners of World Press and the public rushes to see them. This year, World Press has created a new category “multimedia contest” of which the work of the awarded has only been shown on the web. Next year maybe…

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It was through the very fine book created by Paul Strand during his time in Ghana that I myself discovered the country. It left an enormous impression on me and I told myself that someday I, too, would photograph that place” explained Denis Dailleux.

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In 2011, Antonin turned 25 years old. Because he is autistic he cannot carry out even the simplest of life’s everyday activities without the aid of another person and remains dependent on his parents. Many tasks we take for granted being able to complete are for him instead obst...

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Despite the crisis in photojournalism, Visa is attracting more and more photographers who retain the faith and who wish to present and share their work. Yan Morvan and Nathalie-Anne Boucher went to meet them. Here are some portraits they made.

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Nanda Gonzague is 35 and lives in Montpellier (France), he co-founded the collective Transit.

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Boryana Katsarova, born 1981 is a freelance Bulgarian photographer specializing in documentary, editorial and portrait photography.

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Valentin Bianchi 32, he lives in Liège (Belgium) and works on autism

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Photojournalism- alive and kicking: "I can still remember a time, an exciting time, when a photographer could walk into a magazine to meet with the Director of Photography, sit and discuss a project proposal and walk away with substantial funding that would allow them to produce the work.

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The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career as ...

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The SCAM Roger Pic Prize awards each year the author of a photographic portfolio (reportage, press photography, portraits). Created by Roger Pic, a grand photographer but also a militant in regards to copyright, this prize, initially entitled Grand Prix SCAM of Photographic portfolios brings now...

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Launched in 2008 by the Geneva-based private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world’s leading prize in photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience. The...

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In order to accompany the creation of a department of photography, the Academie des Beaux-Arts has created in 2007 a photography prize aimed to help experienced photographers produce a meaningful project and to promote their work.

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Photography has been a part of HSBC France’s cultural policy for many years now. Today, the Group's patronage of the photographic arts is carried out by the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, which was created in 1995 under the aegis of the Fondation de France.

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