Meetings 4 # Evening Shows 12 21 e/th Visa d’or & Awards 25 Festival International du/of photojournalism Exhibitions 29 photojournalisme Abir Abdullah 31 Éric Bouvet 33 PRESS Sarah Caron 35 2 Rafael Fabrés 37 5KIT September 2, 2013 International Daily Press 39 Sara Lewkowicz 41 Pascal Maitre 43 summary Don Mccullin 45 Phil Moore 47 John G. Morris 49 Muhammed Muheisen 51 Michael Nichols 53 Darcy Padilla 55 Andrea Star Reese 57 Majid Saeedi 59 Jérôme Sessini 61 Joao Silva 63 Vlad Sokhin 65 Sebastiano Tomada 67 Goran Tomasevic 69 Angelos Tzortzinis 71 World Press Photo 73 Alfred Yaghobzadeh 75 A man and his daughter outside his partially destroyed house in Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo. Syria, August 28, 2012. Photo Labs & Partners 77 © Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press Editorial Editorial Jean-Paul Griolet Jean-François Leroy July 2013 This year, from August 31 to September 15, 2013, the past 24 years, Visa pour l’Image has been Visa pour l’Image is celebrating the 25th festival, supporting the men and women crafting this Every sector in the photography business an achievement far beyond the original hopes of freedom of expression. The modern world of the It was 24 years ago when Perpignan held the founding parties. Success and recognition have media moves at great speed, no doubt too fast the very first, very new, very small festival has changed, and it has been radical change, come in different forms. with the Internet, but photography, now digital and of photo-reporting, Visa pour l’Image. Even from sales circuits to photo labs, with every immediate, has the power to be a major means then, there were 24 exhibitions and six link in the chain appraised and questioned. International media recognition, with Visa of expression capable of marking minds. Visa evening shows (actually three shows, each Everything has had to be reinvented. pour l’Image as the key vector promoting pour l’Image, with true commitment, continues to screened twice). the name of Perpignan. defend freedom of expression and respect for key Strangely enough, there have never been so The festival is an annual, week-long rendezvous values of tolerance and humanism for every news In those days, there were no computers, many people aspiring to be photographers, for 3000 photographers, journalists, picture story. and the captions were pretty rough, or non- dreaming of it, for it has always been a editors, and photo and press agencies. The 2012 existent. dream. Is that a good thing? It is easy to festival set records well above forecasts for the Visa pour l’Image is also an extraordinary vector achieve technical proficiency, but it is quite promoting and boosting the local economy of number of visitors. The media coverage featured different when it comes to being a proper Perpignan (both our département and the greater Yet from that very first festival, we felt the in national and international written press, radio event would soon be noted in the diaries of journalist. Not everyone can tell a story as and television can be estimated at a value of region), and the festival brings in more than people working in photography and news. it is, even if they can shoot reasonably good 8 million euros. 3 million euros to the local economy. Six years later, we changed from “photo- photos. Cultural recognition Thank you! Our sincere gratitude goes out to all reporting” to “photojournalism” which those who brought the festival into existence, to Visa pour l’Image always inspires dreams, Photography, even in the current period of crisis, seemed the better term. all those who have worked and continue to work is still greatly appreciated by the general public, In those days magazines offered assignments which is great, but it is puzzling to see so towards this wonderful success. as seen with consistently increasing attendance to produce their own reports, agencies were many reports sent in, to see pictures with Yes, there are crises – in the economy, in the figures for Visa Pour l’Image exhibitions, and this flourishing, talented photographers worked no captions. “Hello, here’s my report. I was press, and in business – but life goes on, forever year, the festival will reach a total of more than happily and good-humoredly, with proper in Syria.” OK. Great! But what news story beginning anew. 4 million visitors. do you want to tell? Where did it happen? So, as our predecessors did in the past, we too payment for their work. When? Who are the people in the pictures? must innovate, be audacious and persevere, In other words, that was another era, a Educational recognition believing in what we do. different world, a time now past. The 5W rule – Who? What? Why? When? In 2012, 7 800 students from across the And we can certainly believe when we see, once Where? – is now obsolete, which is a great Languedoc-Roussillon region and nearby regions more, the pooling of minds and energy for the Today, while some magazines still produce shame. came to visit the exhibitions, and for this to be mutual benefit of all concerned, as Visa pour reports, there are fewer and fewer of them, done in optimal conditions, a special school week l’Image has been doing so well over the past 24 In the deluge of news breaking fast, there is has been set aside for them. and budgets are getting smaller and smaller. years. Many agencies have disappeared or, even an urgent need to get back to some of the That way we are bound to succeed. Influential advocacy for photojournalism and worse, are but a mere shadow of their basics, or to invent new basics. That’s what former selves. What about photographers we are trying to do, with the same joy and freedom of expression th In the midst of a global crisis, in a world where who make a decent living from their work? enthusiasm, and for the 25 time. some of our references and values have been lost, There must be only a couple of dozen at the we need wide-ranging, diversified press coverage very most. Welcome to Perpignan! with freedom of expression, presenting different The full version of the editorial can be found on the What caused the revolution? We know viewpoints to stop us from turning our backs Visa pour l’Image-Perpignan Website: the reasons; they have been analyzed and on the truth and returning to the dark ages. For http://www.visapourlimage.com/news/5907.do debated over and over again. 1 2 International Press Center CENTRE DE PRESSE Palais des Congrès INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER 9 m2 8 m2 (claustras) OPEN FROM SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 TO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 from 10.00am to 7.00pm ANI Ground Floor ACCREDITATIONS 2nd Floor 2e BUREAU - Press Office OPEN FROM MONDAY 2 OPEN FROM TUESDAY 3 ESPACE COLLECTIFS / COLLECTIVES SPACE TO SATURDAY 7 TO SATURDAY 7 from 10.00am to 7.00pm from 10.00am to 7.00pm DOCUMENTOGRAPHY - ITEM 23 TENDANCE FLOUE - TERRAPROJECT nd AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ground Floor 2 Floor TRANSIT CANON, our main partner, is on the ground AFP floor of the Palais des Congrès. AGENCE VU PETIT DEJEUNER st ASSOCIATED PRESS BREAKFAST 1 Floor AUDIENS Our partner, iTRIBU - APPLE PREMIUM CENTRAL DUPON 22 19 18 RESELLER, will be pleased to see you on the COSMOS KYODO 1st floor of the Palais des Congrès. 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Free-lance photographers can show their portfolios in the area A.N.I.. 3 4 Meetings Program Program & events from Monday 2 to Sunday 8 from Monday 2 to Sunday 8 Agenda available on apps VILLE DE PERPIGNAN RÉMI OCHLIK and friends. Journalists and their news organizations must therefore know what the psychological risks are; and the news organizations for iPhone, Ipad & Android AWARD must provide confidential counseling services for journalists and on www.visapourlimage.com Thursday, September 5 - 11.00am needing them, for disorders such as PTSD and depression can be Free Entrance. successfully treated. Sara Lewkowicz (Reportage by Getty Images), the 2013 Winner, will show her report on domestic violence, The panel discussion will be moderated by Anthony Feinstein PALAIS DES CONGRÈS (Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto) featured as an exhibition at Visa pour l’Image 2013. 2e BUREAU and Images Evidence will be based who will present information collected over the past ten at the Palais des Congrès - Maison du Festival - The Ville de Perpignan sponsors the prize. years on the psychological health of war journalists, and will share data on what drives journalists to take such risks, year where you can collect badges and press kits, find ICRC HUMANITARIAN VISA D’OR after year, returning to the most dangerous places on earth in information and more.