Monica Allende, the picture editor of the Sunday Times Magazine, will be joined by photographers Pascal Maitre, Jérôme Delay, Yuri Kozyrev, Samuel Bollendorff and Michael Nichols to offer guidance to 50 young photojournalists and professionals starting out in the field of photography, the festival has announced.

The three-day "experience" will invite photographers to "be part of the discussions" and learn "through contact", according to a press statement. The mentors will provide "guidance, sharing and passing on the values they believe in, explaining how they put them into practice."

The initiative comes after the Festival's director, Jean-François Leroy, found that too many young photographers were not interacting with established photographers at Visa. "Photographers and documentary reporters who came along twenty years ago, timidly showing their work, have now grown up to become some of the prominent figures in the profession, but as members of the Visa pour l’Image family, they are certainly not unapproachable," say the organisers. "They are ready and willing to share what they have learnt, to talk about their values and explain how they put them into practice."

The workshop costs €500. For more information and to register, email sylvie.grumbach[at]2e-bureau.com.