Visa Pour l'Image - Brent Stirton awarded Visa d'Or

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Olivier Laurent

Getty Images photographer Brent Stirton has received the Visa d'Or Features last night in Perpignan at the Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival.

Stirton won for his reportage, commissionned by Newsweek and National Geographic, in Virunga National Park, Africa's first National Park, which is home to the endangered mountain gorilla. The park is also the only source of hardwood in the war-ravaged region from which to make good quality charcoal. The charcoal manufacturers use the rebel occupation to conceal their business activities. Complicating things further is the fact that two major rebel armies occupy the park: the CNDP under rebel Congolese General Laurent Nkunda, and their sworn enemies, the FDLR Interhamwe, who have lived in the forests since they were chased there after the Rwandan genocide.

For the same reportage, Stirton won the first prize singles in the Contemporary Issues category at this year's World Press Photo.

Image © Brent Stirton/Getty Images, courtesy of Visa Pour l'Image.

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