Misha Friedman won PixPalace ANI-2011 with his report on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the former Soviet Union. He received a prize of € 5,000. Tuberculosis is again a very deadly disease – especially in the former Soviet Union. The number of patients with very difficult forms of t...

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Boarding school no 9 is one of Russia's military academies. The Russian nation is divided by politics, and the Russian authorities want pro-government education to be stronger. It offers its pupils a strong spirit of discipline and patriotism. It's just like the usual boa...

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Cultural and religious barriers have created an environment of repression towards public and political discourse concerning sexual matters in some parts of the globe. Because of this, topics such as homosexuality and transsexuality are rarely addressed publicly, and are seldom di...

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14h00 – Now all the stands in the Palais des Congrès are alive. There’s a crowd at the Association Nationale des Iconographes (ANI). Young people wait in line to show their pressbooks in the hope of getting featured by ANI, plus a mention in the Journal de la Photographi...

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Breakfast at Cafe de la Poste by the mini-castle, coffee and croissant with Michel Puech, who told us a fantastic story about his involvement with Le Minitel, France’s early version of the internet. He attended a presentation in Paris by leaders of Sun Microsystems, Micro...

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What is Perpignan by night ? Projections, talking about photojournalism at the bar, then walking around by the city. Maybe we'll end taking a dance lessons.

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Mete Zhinioglu, chief executive of Sipa Press, answers a few questions about the agency's future. How has Sipa evolved this year ?

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Over the last fifty years, sub-Saharan Africa has seen more war, famine and natural disasters than any other part of the world. While many may have escaped crises with their bodies intact, the same cannot always be said of their minds. Conflict and disaster divert funds away from...

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Aboriginals have inhabited Australia for over 40,000 years and have the oldest, continuous culture on Earth. Yet for the last 200 years the indigenous people of Australia have been dominated by a society greatly at odds with their own. Only 37% of Aboriginal children reach the fin...

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Nik Wheeler’s portrayal of life among the marshmen of southern Iraq is the only in-depth photo-reportage in the marshes ever authorized by Saddam Hussein’s regime. The photos, originally shot as a National Geographic assignment in the late 1970s, show the “Cradle of Civilization” w...

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It only took a few weeks for the outrage movement (‘the indignant ones’) to sweep through Europe. Spain, Greece, Israel, Germany, England, Belgium, France: in each instance the same desire, the tents, a public square, pieces of cardboard, a red nose and red hands, debat...

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The Occupy Wall Street movement is a people powered movement that began on Sept 17, 2011 with the occupation of Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) in the Financial District of lower Manhattan. This movement rapidly spread to many cities across United States and globally. While the move...

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Miquel Dewever-Plana, a photographer at the Agence VU’, and the journalist Isabelle Fougère traveled to Guatemala to document the gang violence there. Their work resulted in the books Alma and L’Autre Guerre, (available in French from Editions Bec en l’air) and a web docum...

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I’m 26 years old when I leave New York, my boyfriend and my job as a photo editor, to cover the war of liberation in Rhodesia. Why? I love Africa, I want to be a photojournalist, and the conflict interests me. My mother is Indian-America, so I feel like the ‘Negro question’ concerns ...

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I had joined Sipa the year before. I photographed stars and royalty, like Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco, at a time when photographers talked to the people they followed as equals. On that day, in an alley off the Avenue Foch in Paris, my colleagues and I were waiting for Christin...

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For the last 24 years, the celebrated French magazine PHOTO dedicate its September issue to the Visa pour l’Image festival. This year is no exception, and for the occasion, Agnès Grégoire and her team gathered testimonials from professional photojournalists about the festiva...

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