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3 years after Iraq, Todd Heisler, a staff photographer from the Rocky Mountain News, decided to follow Major Steve Beck in his notifications of death announcements to the families. The result is a heart-rending chronicle of loss and grief called “Last Salute,” a picture story that has won Heisler a Pulitzer Prize and a Best of Photojournalism award. In this interview, Heisler talks about the behind-the-scenes of picture making. See interview in video |
Max Becherer is an award-winning freelance photojournalist represented by Polaris Images. He has been working on Iraq for the last three years and has brought us images of the escalating turmoil from Iraq. |
Violence flares in the streets of Latin America; it is part of the local landscape and identity. Diego Levy's compelling images show how blood has become a common sight in every street and neighborhood, around every corner. His work is a journey along the most violent streets of the continent: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Medellín and the City of Mexico. His images of death, blood and pain are part of a terrifying, everyday reality which many scholars now regard as the most destructive germ contaminating young Latin American democracies. See interview in video |
The last evening of Visa projections started with the Award Ceremony of the Canon-AFJ woman photojournalist award. Jean François Leroy, Isabelle Fougère (AFJ) and Guy Bourreau (Canon Communication & Image) gave the award to Veronique de Viguerie for her work on Afghanistan. The sixth laureate of the award is a 28 year old photojournalist, and this award will allow him to complete a reportage on Maoist women in Nepal. We will discover her work at Couvent des minims in 2007, for the 19th edition of Visa pour l’Image. Read more... |
For his very first personal exhibition in France, Elliott Erwitt, a photographer full of love and humor, presents us with an exhibit entitled “Personal Best”. For his new book, Erwitt examines a lifetime of image making – a career no less than exemplary. Each of his images is a masterpiece of composition, but most importantly, he is the most malicious, capable of putting a smile on people’s face with each one of his images. In fact, Erwitt’s sense of humor is simply unmatched and unmatchable! See interview in video... |
Jean-Pierre Pappis, president of the Polaris Images Agency based in New York, would like to fight against giant image agencies that he qualifies as “barbaric.” During Visa pour l’image, he has started an important and vital debate on this issue, surely a matter of survival for the profession, where he calls onto the conscience of the photographers and warns them to be aware of how their photographs are used and distributed. See interview in video. |
For the past 17 years, Canon has been intimately involved with the photographers at Visa à l’image. This year, the Japanese company is more present than ever. Guy Bourreau, director of marking for Canon Communication & Image France, explains to us the reasons for Canon’s commitment in Visa. See interview in video |
A great number of photography collectives are present on the first floor of Palais des Congrès at Perpignan. This year, we met the young collective Temps Machine (Time Machine) created a year and half ago. This collective regroups 5 founding members: Philippe Grollier, Yanick Labrousse, Vincent Leroux, Patrice Normand, Cédric Martigny, and lately a new member: Marc Cellier. Cédric Martigny speaks here for the young collective… See interview in video ... |
For Jean-Luc Manaud, the Sahara could be his mother tongue. He has been working as a photojournalist since 1977 and has traveled the world, but the desert has always been his favorite land. These are his tales of the Sahara- Mauritania, Niger, Mali, southern Algeria, Chad and the Western Sahara (Morocco) - in photos presenting his visual records over a period of thirty years, covering his encounters with both the land and the people of the desert, showing the Sahara as seen today, offering a poetic expression of the reality of this fragile world and of the problems facing it. See interview in video... |
Kate Brooks began working as a freelance photojournalist in Russia while documenting systematic child abuse in state institutions. The resulting photographs were published world wide and used to raise money and campaign for orphans’ rights. Following 9-11, Brooks moved to Pakistan in order to photograph the impact of US foreign policy in the region and life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. See interview in video. |
The principal theme of this evening was Africa: after showing a few subjects on Nepal and Tibet, the evening proceeded with a chain of subjects on the African continent. To begin with, the heart-rending photographs of Bruno Amsellem (Editing) on children of Noma (Noma is an acute and ravaging gangrenous infection affecting the face), followed by stories on Cholera in Angola by Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum) and AIDS in Africa by Steve Simon. We then witnessed the color photographs of Dieter Telemans (Cosmos) on the effects of drought, followed by three consecutive subjects on Congo by Sean Sutton (Mag-Panos Pictures), Michael Zumstein (L’Oeil Public) and Per-Anders Petterson (Getty Images). Read more ... |
We chatted with Scout Tufankjian, a young American photographer represented by Polaris Images based in New York, on her color photographs of the Gaza Strip. Scout is based both in Brooklyn, New York and the Gaza Strip and has been documenting life in the Gaza Strip for a few years now. See interview in video... |
This fourth night has begun with the award ceremony for the Visa d’Or presse quotidienne (Visa d’Or Category Daily News Award), which went to Sergio Caro for his work for El Periodico de Catalunya. The projection started with several subjects on Tchernobyl, with the work of Guillaume Herbaut (Oeil Public), and also the work of Igor Kostin. Igor Kostin (Sygma/Corbis) was the first photographer to go to Tchernobyl right after the catastrophe, and he has brought back stunning images, soliciting a standing ovation from the public ! Read more... |
Hazel Thopson, a 28-year old British photographer, has received by unanimity the eleventh CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage, as well as the 60th anniversary CARE international Award, for her reportage called “Children behind bars: inside the Philippine prisons”. This reportage shows the tragic and catastrophic conditions under which thousands of children were illegally detained in prisons in the Philippines, where they are subjected to the worst treatment. See interview in video... |
Campo Santo. Wednesday. The evening opens with the award ceremony of the eleventh CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage, which also coincides with the 60th anniversary of the association. The award went to young British photographer Hazel Thompson for her work on child prisoners in the Philippines. She also receives the 60th anniversary CARE international Award. |
Visa pour L’Image is doing a formidable job on preserving memory through its exhibitions and screenings. Wednesday night, we saw documentary photographs of the Spanish civil war (1936-39), brilliantly compiled by Sophie Malexis and Michel Lefebvre. Photographer Bernard Matussière presented, in the form of an exhibition and a book, the work of Emile Muller, under whom he apprenticed in Paris at the age of 18. Muller photographed mining villages in the North of France, French Communist adventures and misadventures, as well as many celebrities in Paris. Read more ... |
Tonight’s program was much more stimulating than last night’s, and the festival finally launched its own projections, although the topics are still not treated enough in depth…Indeed, they act often as teasers. The beginning projection shows a photo essay on the subject of the northern suburbs of Paris entitled “Le Clichy sans cliché”, which regroups star photographers such as Jane Evelyn Atwood, Sarah Moon, Maire-Paule Nègre, Paolo Roversi, Yann Arthus Bertrand… Read more... |
Accusing photographers of image manipulation seems to be the most fashionable thing of the day. Of course, with digital technology, this is on everybody’s mind. The war on media control surrounding the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon has energized Bruno Stevens, who is this year’s guest of honor at Visa. He reminds us forcefully that the essential quality of news photography is honesty. And this goes together with the anger with which he takes his camera in his hands. Read more ... |
After a calm first Sunday in September – most Perpignanais were at the beach – Visa is fully functioning: all the exhibitions are open, and the street signals are quite impressive, but there are still very few badges and red bracelets in sight. The red bracelets have become this year’s novelty at Visa as all accredited visitors are obliged to wear them once they have paid the 50 euros participation fee. Read more... |
Monday’s projection does not leave an imperishable impression on the mind. The photo entitled “We don’t give a damn’ (On n’en a rien à foutre) went to a photograph of the Alpinehorn (Cor d’Alpes). The audience was mostly local, which understandably explains the lightness of the subject matters being shown. The more concerned reportages will come later in the week. The image quality of the projection, entirely digital since 2005, was simply staggering. Read more ... |
For the past 18 years, Visa pour l’image in Perpignan has remained the antidote to the trivialization of serious information. The international festival of photojournalism has become, more than ever, the “magazine” that we no longer find on the newsstand. The more information in the press turns into a circus spectacle of celebrities, the more the images shown at Visa are gruesome, sometimes to the point of nausea. In the way of shock therapies, the festival director Jean-François Leroy pursues his agenda to “try to reassign hierarchy to information”. This has also become the purpose of all international press photographers finding it harder and harder to find publication outlets for their serious work. Read more ... (image © Hazel Thompson / Eyevine - Prix CARE) |
Photographie.com celebrates its tenth year of action and information for photographers ans the photographic world at Visa pour l'image Perpignan. The online magazine, pioneer of the Internet revolution, was crated based on a simple idea : to give the power of voice to photographers. The magazine has continuously innovated itself and is today using HD video as well as other cutting edge tools in order to explore new modes of diffusing information in order to confer meaning to images. |
Celebrating 10 years of Photographie.com
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VISA pour l'image Press : 2ème Bureau => The exhibitions |
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Photographie.com - Team Rédaction : Didier de Fays, Ericka Weidmann, Brigitte Huard, ChinChin Wu et François Marie d'Andrimont Relation Presse : Catherine Philippot
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