This picture has been all around the world, it is the Image of the Tsunami that devastated Japan. Her name is Yuko Sugimoto. Paris Match found her and invited her in Perpignan with her little boy aged 5 and the photographer Tadashi Ohkubo. Caroline Mangez, editor in Paris Mat...

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The Visa d'or News was presented Saturday. The recipient is Yuri Kozyrev (Noor for Time) with the « Arab spring, the path of révolution ».

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Olivier Jobard has received the Visa d'or Magazine for Zarzis, Lampedusa, the odyssey of hope about the exodus of Tunisians during the revolution of Jasmin.

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The Visa d'or Daily Press was presented Thursday the International Herald Tribune for reporting on Japan conducted in March 2011 by Shiho Fukada.

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This award (8000 euros), sponsored by the City of Perpignan, is given in recognition of talent and is designed the young photographer carry out a project. The jury awarded the prize to: ED OU / Reportage by Getty Images for his report on child soldiers in Somalia.

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The five recipients of the Getty Grants for Editorial Photography are : Alvarro Ybarra Zavala, Walter Astrada, Stanley Greene, Liz Hingley, Joan Bardeletti

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Presented by the French Association of Female Journalists (AFJ) in partnership with the Figaro Magazine. The winner is Ilvy NJIOKIKTJIEN for her project on Afrikaner Teenagers in post-Apartheid South Africa.

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At Visa, people come from different horizons to speak one universal language: pictures. Faithful to its beginnings, Paris Match is not a magazine that claims “Life is marvelous”. We continue to show life as it is. Unremittingly in the field, our reporters and photographers loo...

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Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr wanted to share with us her "Coup de coeur" for Lu Nan. Here is her text: Festivals have a particularity in that they show you things you’ve been preparing yourself to see for many months, and then suddenly, the magic happens, as well as the surprise.

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A reportage fully immersed in the House of Solenn, a structure specialized in treating young adolescents in psychic and physical care for those suffering from diverse pathologies such as depression, bulimia or anorexia. Patrick Grip produced a rare work over four years on adolescents in...

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Eight years ago sixty families occupied the "Galpao da Araujo Barreto”, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Prior to establishing in this place, these families lived throughout the dangerous streets of the city. In 2003, these families came together to seize t...

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Lashkars is a name as old as Islam, it refers to the tribal warriors. Since September 2009 a new kind of operation has been launched in the Swat Valley. The Pastu civil society, traditionally trained in the use of weapons, and already involved in the fight against th...

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Located in the heart of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, the “Aviation” Camp is a huge area, grid in 7 blocks, hosting almost 60,000 people affected by the earthquake of 2010 January 12th. Nearly a year after the disaster that devastated the capital, the situation of victim...

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Two photographic universes, two approaches, two epochs but a common admiration, passion for the Peruvian culture.
While individual or group portraits of Martin Chambi (Coaza, 1891 – Cuzco, 1973) explore and reveal the complexity of the Peruvian society of the early 20...

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After two fratricidal civil wars (during the 21 years of war between 1955 and 2004, 2 millions people died), a peace agreement was signed in 2005. On the occasion of a referendum in January 2011, the autonomous region of South Sudan voted overwhelmingly for secession from th...

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Since the end of November and the defeat of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo against his opponent, the former Prime Minister Allassane Ouattara, fears of civil war have risen in Ivory Coast.
Ouattara only has a few means of action, and has taken refuge in the Golf Hotel in Abidjan.

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In the beginning, there were three women: Isabelle Fougère, journalist, Brigitte Huard, photo director and Lizzie Sadin, photojournalist: They began from the sad assessment that the number of female photojournalists in the beginning of the year 2000 would hardly exce...

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Since the year 2000, the Association des Femmes Journalistes and Canon France, in partnership with the international Visa pour l’Image festival, and with the support of Figaro Magazine, have awarded an annual prize for women photojournalists. Women photojournalists wo...

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His name is Jean-Paul Alduy, He is Senator for the Pyrenees Orientals (french Catalonia). Interesting and passionate he talks openly. Thanks to him Visa pour l'Image gets all the support and the local help. He discovered the Festival in 1991. Two years latter after a surprise election he b...

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Aline Manoukian is a passionaria. Seductive, voluptuous, she has been basking in the world of photography since her teenage years and defends the profession ardently. Aline Manoukian is a photo editor. Since 2010 she is the chairwoman of ANI, (Association National des Iconographe) the Fr...

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For twelve years, the National Association of Iconographers organizes readings professional portfolios during the week of the International Festival of Photojournalism ‘Visa pour l’image "and thus receives more than 300 photographers from all backgrounds to advise and guide t...

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The story of the life and death of Julie Baird spans 18 years starting with a chance encounter in 1993, and provides an in-depth look at poverty, AIDS, and social issues affecting American Society.

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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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Fjona Hill was born in England. After studying medicine, she turned to photography. She covers specifically with issues of addiction.

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Maria Moschou is Greek, after studying in England, she moved to France. She is working on a project entitled, "Traces of Sin."

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New Delhi, India based photojournalist Brian Sokol, born 1975, has been documenting life in Asia for more than a decade. A fluent Nepali speaker, he has covered a diverse range of stories, from armed conflict in the Himalayas to the economics of global migration.

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AnthropoGraphia is dedicated to promoting human rights through visual story telling. The AnthropoGraphia Award for Human Rights was established to put this dedication into action by being a platform for human rights issues to be understood and debated. Photography has proven t...

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The Dr Erich Salomon Award rewards the press and photographers for outstanding contribution to photojournalism.

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The Hasselblad Award is an international photography prize, awarded for the first time in 1980. It has been presented annually since then, with the exception of the year of Erna Hasselblad’s death 1983.

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