Guillaume Herbaut and Bruno Masi win €8000 for "La Zone" interactive film, which was published on Le Monde.fr.

The two photojournalists will receive their award on Wednesday 31 August at the Visa Pour l'Image festival in Perpignan.

"La Zone", which was first published in April 2011, explores the lives of people living around Tchernobyl and within the contaminated zone. According to France 24, "Herbaut and Masi hauntingly capture the challenges of daily life in an environmental wasteland. In one segment, they feature a lone woman wandering amid what is effectively a ghost town of abandoned buildings as she hunts for kindling to warm her family on a cold winter day."

The jury was unanimous in its decision, say the organisers.

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