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The Optimists - A look back at this year's Visa Pour l'Image festival

Gone were the doom-and-gloom conversations at this year’s 
Visa pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, finds Olivier Laurent. Instead photographers are looking to the future...

Festivals 19 Oct 2011

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On Revolution Road, an interview with Yuri Kozyrev

Noor photographer Yuri Kozyrev probably has one of the most coherent and comprehensive bodies of work on the Arab Spring. Hours before winning the Visa d'Or News award, he spoke with BJP's Olivier Laurent...

Photojournalism 08 Sep 2011

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Barbara Davidson: From the Pulitzer to Perpignan

Barbara Davidson won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography this year for her exploration of gun violence in Los Angeles. She tells BJP how she was able to convince her editors to let her work on a...

Photojournalism 05 Sep 2011

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Yuri Kozyrev wins Visa d'Or award

Noor photographer Yuri Kozyrev has won the Visa d'Or News award, worth €8000, for his coverage of the Arab Spring for Time Magazine

Awards 04 Sep 2011

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World Press Photo launches Tim Hetherington Grant

The World Press Photo organisation and Human Rights Watch have announced, at the Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival, the launch of the Tim Hetherington Grant, in memory of the late photojournalist...

Grants 03 Sep 2011

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Interview: Stanley Greene and the Getty Images Grants

Stanley Norman Greene, one of this year's winners of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography and a celebrated photojournalist, speaks with BJP about his "E-Waste Trail" project and how film remains...

Grants 01 Sep 2011

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"The Getty Grants have become a lifeline for photojournalists," says Aidan Sullivan

As Getty Images announces the winners of this year's Grants for Editorial, BJP's news and online editor Olivier Laurent catches up with the agency's vice president Aidan Sullivan

Grants 01 Sep 2011

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Five photojournalists share $100,000 in Getty Images grants

Photojournalists Stanley Greene, Walter Astrada, Liz Hingley, Joan Bardeletti and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala have each won $20,000 as part of the annual Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

Grants 01 Sep 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Fernando Moleres' struggle to help juvenile prisoners in Sierra Leone

For the past two years, Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres has been helping juvenile detainees in some of the most violent prisons of Sierra Leone. He speaks to BJP about the authorities' inactions...

Photojournalism 01 Sep 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Narco Culture in Mexico

It's started as an assignment, but, four years later, Shaul Schwarz, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, has produced a large body of work on the Narco culture in Mexico - and he's also working on...

Photojournalism 31 Aug 2011

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Guillaume Herbaut wins multimedia award

Institute photographer Guillaume Herbaut and Bruno Masi have won the France 24-RFI Web Documentary Awards for his "La Zone" interactive feature

Awards 30 Aug 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: First Square Kilometer of Freedom

Catalina Martin-Chico won this year's International Committee of the Red Cross Visa d'Or Humanitarian Award, the first prize of its kind to be given in Perpignan. She tells BJP about her work in Yemen,...

Festivals 30 Aug 2011

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Listening in: The use of audio in photography

Some photographers believe audio is a better partner for still images, adding depth to their multimedia presentations, despite video getting all the attention right now. Olivier Laurent talks with photographers...

Media 30 Aug 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Peter Dench's England

British photographer Peter Dench is on show at this year's Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival. He speaks with BJP about his 10 years documenting the English people

Festivals 29 Aug 2011

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Photojournalism community gets ready for 23rd Visa Pour l'Image

Visa Pour l'Image is back for its 23rd year with more than 20 exhibitions taking over the city of Perpignan. BJP will attending the festival, filing exclusive interviews and reports from Monday

Festivals 26 Aug 2011

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Ed Ou wins Young Reporter Award [update]

Ed Ou, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, has received this year's City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award. He wins an exhibition at Visa Pour l'Image and a €8000 cash prize

Festivals 14 Jul 2011

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