From September 1 to 16, Perpignan will host the festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image”, the annual meeting for those whose job is to provide us with images to help us better understand the world we live in.
Now in its 24th year, hundreds of...

03.09.2012[ read full story ]

“I wanted to be a doctor.” Jean-François pauses, a twinkle in his eye. “I remember, I was 11 years old. It was December 3, 1967, the South African doctor, Christiaan Barnard, had just performed the first successful heart transplant on a 55-year old man, Louis Washkansky. It was...

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For nearly twenty-five years, at Visa, there has been a king (JF Leroy) and his queen. In Perpignan, their Kingdom, there are no secrets for Sylvie Grumbach. She has walked its streets on two feet, one foot, even on crutches, and has seen people at their worst. She’...

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Eighty photojournalists in a beautiful tribute ,reflect on the great adventure that was the photo agency Sipa, founded by Göksin Sipahioglu, its legendary director, who passed away in October 2011.
« For those who aren’t familiar with the world of ...

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The Kurdish people who, for more than two thousand years, have been living in the lands of Anatolia and Persia, have their own unique history. Their land exists: it is Kurdistan, extending from the Anatolian plateau and plains to the Zagros mountains, but the borders of this ...

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For fifteen years, Doug Menuez documented the daily lives of a secretive tribe of innovators in Silicon Valley as they created technology that would change our culture and behavior. This is a story about the people who created the world we live in today, a story about passion, risk...

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Since President Felipe Calderon declared an all out war on the narco-traffickers in December 2006, Mexico has been plunged into a real civil war conflict. The war declared on drug lords caused unprecedented outburst of violence in the whole country. Under pressure to keep ...

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Every day northern Nigeria descends into ever greater chaos and civil war, despite the state of emergency. Since 2009, Boko Haram, a Salafist sect, has been carrying out a series of murderous attacks targeting security services, police and armed forces. These latest events h...

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With this award, the Carmignac Gestion foundation has chosen to support in-depth work of photojournalists, whose profession is in the grips of a severe financing crisis. Every year, a EUR 50.000 grant is awarded to fund a photo-reportage carried out over a period of several months ...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

The subject of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may conjure up images of grainy Interpol mugshots and hooded detainees, but Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer have created sensitive and revealing portraits of those imprisoned as part of the War on Terror. The body of work is deeply ...

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Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 6h07: The phone rings. “Your taxi’s downstairs.” I throw on a shirt and pants and catch the 7h15 high-speed train southbound. 12h08: Five hours later I’m at the center of the world, also known as Perpignan station. It doesn’t l...

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The festival “Visa pour l’Image” is signaled in Perpignan at every streets corners : flags, posters, photographs. The city is greeting in this beginning of September the international festival of photojournalism. A detour at the Congress Palace before meeting the first ar...

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