On October 13, 2011, at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, the world of photojournalism came together to pay a final tribute to Göksin Sipahioglu. Almost everyone he had helped was there, surprised that time had passed so quickly. For Göksin Sipahioglu is a symbol, the very incarnatio...

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Never had the world been closer to a nuclear holocaust. When President John F. Kennedy announced the presence of nuclear weapons on Cuba pointed at the United States, and threatened to invade the island if Khrushchev refused to remove them, many thought it was the beginning of...

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February 1974 - The Bombing of Phnom Penh. “Why do you want to go to the front, Miss?” my Cambodia driver, Mr. Lî, asked. “It’s Sunday. The war is off on Sundays .” “Take me anyway,” I told him. I want to see Phnom Pen again, the monks in saffron robes walking along the Mekong ...

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Advance and Retreat in Russia’s Arctic Russian bureaucrats call the Arctic the “Zone of Absolute Discomfort” - an icy hinterland awful to live in, but just habitable enough for hired men to extract billions of tons of oil, gas and minerals trapped under the tundra, giving Moscow imm...

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Erika Larsen’s photographs explore the symbiotic relationship between Sámi reindeer herders and the environment, their existence in today’s world and their ancestral roots. Native to the Arctic Circle of northern Scandinavia and Russia - the largest area in the world with an ances...

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In 2003, dozens of families occupied the Galpao da Araujo Barreto, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Before moving there, the families had lived in the dangerous streets of the city, but, tired of living with so much violence and despair, they came to...

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Seeking God, spreading hatred and racism, and destroying the American landscape. These American States, as they are sometimes called, are individual and, at times, as violently divided as the people who live in them. Whose America is it? Jim Lo Scalzo looks at his home country fr...

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Greece is in the midst of a violent economical crisis. For the last two years, nationwide general labor strikes in Greece called by the country's largest labor federations, representing the private and public sector respectively. The violence erupted between thousands of angry ...

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Ethiopian faith radiates from two cities: Jerusalem and Lalibela, in Ethiopia’s highlands. ‘Jerusalem of Africa’ is one of the names given to Lalibela, also known as ‘Black Jerusalem’. It is famous for its 12th century monolithic churches carved out of the ‘living rock’, and is on...

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Currently one rhinoceros is killed by poachers every 16 hours in South Africa. Over the last three years, more than a thousand of these animals have been slaughtered. In response, police gunned down 22 poachers and arrested more than 200 in 2011. At the bloody heart of this con...

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The ANI (National Association of Iconographers) organizes each year during the professional week of Visa pour l'Image, readings of portfolios at the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan. Professional Iconograhers receive a large number of photographers from around the globe. Follow...

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“I had a nightmare once, I was six feet tall and I was literally scared of my own height,” says 21-years old Sofiya Cheyenne Perez.  She is just above four feet tall and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Dwarfdom is a photography essay and a short documentary that tells the st...

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The north wind is still blowing and vacationers and photo amateurs are looking for shelter in exhibitions halls. Conclusion: take advantage of this Sunday lunch to visit the Couvent des Minimes.
12h00: The flagship exhibition and a personal favorite of Jean-Francçois...

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As my wife Tereza and I descended through treacherous crosswinds into Perpignan today I sat up sharp with the recollection of my promise to deliver a daily diary to Le Journal- so here we go. I’ve heard for years about Visa Pour L’Image and now am both terrified and thril...

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Erika Larsen is exhibiting in Couvent Sainte-Claire her work on the Sami or Reindeer people, indigenous from Scandinavia and nothern Russia. Her images are intimate and documentary.

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Monday, Zmâla is putting up its exhibition. Céline Pévrier, director of publication for Zmâla, fought against the wind. It was not easy to hang 15 set of pictures.

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