Sylvie and Jean-Pierre Pappis are the gris-gris of the world of photojournalism. As long as they are there, we know we still exist. Indefatigably, 24 hours a day they meet, advise, comfort. It’s the ultimate iconic image for a world that certainly has need of it.

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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...

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Born in Oregon, Thomas Haley has been living in Paris since the early 70's when he started as photo-researcher for Magnum Photo Agency. He spent the last twenty eight years to covered for SIPA PRESS political conflict, disasters, man-made and natural. He still collaborate regularly wi...

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January 12, 2010, 4:53 p.m. A catastrophic earthquake hit the Caribbean State of Haiti. The epicenter was just 25 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince. Riccardo Venturi documented everything he could: the people, the devastation and the drama of the situation.
Six months lat...

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After more than 40 years of civil war, Colombia is a divided country. Decades of violence have put an end to far too many lives in this extraordinary country. The sequence of events in the war is now dictated by strategic and economic interests, far removed from the ideological values...

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In the center of the city of Beira in Mozambique, overlooking the ocean, the four-storey Grand Hotel still stands tall, though it is nothing more than a desecrated shell. Once reminiscent of colonial splendor, the luxury flagship was originally built in 1952 to welcome all of Afr...

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I set out for Juba in January, in order to photograph the referendum on the independence of South Sudan. “You’ll never get there”, I heard everywhere. Not only did they arrive on D day, January 9th, but everything went smoothly. Men and women wore their best attire to go to vote, d...

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“We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia.  The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. From the camps for Internally Displaced Peopl...

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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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Sébastien Van Malleghem practice photography for 6 years, currently working on the appalling situation of prisons in Belgium.

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Capucine Granier-Deferre (28) ans, came to photography 3 years ago. She works on a Bulgarian Roma slum outside Paris.

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Pictures of the year International is the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism program in the world. POYi began as an annual competition for photojournalism in 1944, and is now an international professional development program for visual journalism. POYi is a non-profit, acad...

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Mugur Varzariu, Romanian photographer for 1 year, covered successively Syria, Tunisia, and Egypt.

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Those photographers who have known the “Visa pour l’Image” Festival from the beginning associate the red of its logo with that of Canon. And, more than the many ministers who have come here with their promises, often not kept, all the Visa participants hold in their memories the image ...

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A certain number of foundations, associations, groups and private or public organisations support photojournalism and fund it or create important prizes. On the occasion of Visa we wanted to list these for you.

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Nonprofits need imagery to tell their stories effectively, which is why our Grants for Good provide two grants of $15,000 annually, to cover photographer, filmmaker and agency costs as they create compelling new imagery for the nonprofit of their choice.

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The monthly photojournalism magazine DAYS JAPAN was launched in March 2004 in response to the burgeoning demand for quality reporting from the world’s many war fronts and conflicts that claim so many lives today. The world-class photographers who contribute to our publi...

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The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer's Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic exc...

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