13th Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan

Since its first edition in 1989, Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan, international festival of photojournalism, has welcomed the greatest press photographers from all over the world.
In 12 years, Visa pour l’Image has become the meeting place for an entire profession: agency and freelance photographers, agency and media directors, photo service managers, journalists and philosophers of the image…
Every year, around thirty free exhibitions are held, featuring the best of them, such as Dimitri Baltermans, Alberto Korda, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Pierre Boulat, Mary Ellen Mark, Joe Rosenthal, Helmut Newton and this year’s Walker Evans.
Visa pour l’Image is also a springboard for the young generation such as Lise Sarfati (1995 Kodak Award for Young Photographer), Chris Morris (Visa d’Or News 1992), Patrick Robert (Visa d’Or News 1990 and 1996), Alexandra Boulat (Visa d’Or News 1998), Tom Stoddart (Grand Prix CARE International du Reportage Humanitaire 1997), …
It is also a festival devoted by the public, more and more numerous every year. Last year, nearly 180,000 people visited the exhibitions and attended screenings at Campo Santo.

THE EXHIBITIONS
Chris Anderson – The Stone Throwers
Patrick Aventurier – Mlabri: the twilight of a people
David Butow – In the heart of Saddam’s Iraq
Pablo Corral Vega – In the shadow of the Andes
Jean-Louis Courtinat – Children of the devil
Jérôme Delafosse – Les Enfants Dieux
Tiane Doan Na Champassak – The Kumbh Mela
Walker Evans / Fortune Magazine
Vincent Fougères – Alienated from Africa
Bruce Gilden – Behind the Mask
Jan Grarup – The children of Ramallah
Stanley Greene – Russia under Putin or how to live in denial
Jean-Paul Guilloteau – Pakistan, the fractured country
Ministry of Culture – Youth in France in the year 2000
Chris Johns – The Bushmen
Michel Lipchitz – Retrospective
Pascal Maitre – Madagascar: a journey in a world apart
Paris Match and the Presidents
Wayne F. Miller – Chicago’s South Side
Jean-Luc Moreau – Chernobyl: a closure at risk
Andrea Motta – Iraq after the storm
Per-Anders Petterson – The South African Police Service
Lucille Reyboz – Les Tamberma, builders of the universe
Patrick Robert – Sierra Leone, the ultimate Kamajor offensive
Xolotl Salazar Bonilla – Tiruana, Mexico
Frédéric Sautereau – Of Walls and Lives : Divided Cities – Exhibition produced by the FNAC
Callie Shell – Al Gore
Tino Soriano – La Zafra, slaves in paradise
Ad Van Denderen – Schengen area: asylum seekers and immigrants in Europe
International Daily Press
World Presse Photo

THE WINNERS
Visa d’or News Award: Chris Anderson
Visa d’or Feature Award: Ad Van Denderen
Visa d’or Dayl Press Award: Berlingske Tidente (Denmark)

Canon Photojournalism Female Award: Magalie Delporte