VISA FOR THE IMAGE. From September 17 to 30, 2022, the international photojournalism festival exhibits a selection of the photos presented at the Grande Halle of the Parc de la Villette in Paris.
[Mis à jour le 16 septembre 2022 à 16h45] Visa pour l’Image exhibits a selection of photos from the 34th edition of the festival in the heart of the Parc de La Villette in Paris from September 17 to 30, 2022. Among the themes addressed, if the war in Ukraine is obviously not absent from the program , other exhibitions make us discover images of global overfishing, the trade in “happy pills”, but also the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan.
“Unfortunately, the world continues outside of Ukraine (…) Things are happening all over the country. planet which, because of Ukraine, we no longer talk about. And we are committed to showing the news of the world in its entirety”, declared Jean-François Leroy, founder of Visa pour l’Image, to AFP. Discover the photos of this 34th edition in pictures:
Visa pour l’Image is not only devoted to war reporting. From Ukraine to climate change, here are the names and authors of the exhibitions presented this year at La Villette, and the themes addressed:
- The Sixth Extinction by Alain Ernoult. Mentioned topic : portraits of endangered species.
- 1 ocean by Alexis Rosenfeld with UNESCO. Mentioned topic : ten years of discovery of the ocean.
- Mariupol, Ukraine by Mstyslav Chernov & Evgeniy Maloletka (Associated Press). Mentioned topic : Russia’s strikes against the port city of Mariupol in Ukraine, which has become the symbol of resistance.
- “All” in withdrawal by Françoise Huguier (Agence VU’). Mentioned topic : photographs of intimacy.
- Tirelessly by Tamara Saade. Mentioned topic : the last two years spent in Lebanon, with the demonstrations organized across the country and the consequences of the explosion, as well as the few rare periods of respite in between.
- World Fisheries by George Steinmetz. Mentioned topic : industrial fishing.
- Between war and peacea retrospective of 30 years of photographs by Goran Tomasevic.
- Días Eternos: Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala (2017-2022) by Ana María Arévalo Gosen, winner of the 2021 Camille Lepage Prize. Mentioned topic : the condition of imprisoned women in Venezuela, El Salvador and Guatemala.
- The end of an endless war by Andrew Quilty (Agence VU’). Mentioned topic : the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, following the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
- Hafizasby Sabiha Çimen, winner of the 2020 Canon Female Photojournalist Fellowship. Mentioned topic : the daily life of Koranic schools for young girls.
- The twelfth voyage of the schooner Tara by Maéva Bardy (The Tara Ocean Foundation) with the participation of Figaro Magazine. Mentioned topic : a major Weddell Sea expedition aboard the scientific schooner Tara.
- Bush pilots in Alaska by Acacia Johnson, winner of the 2021 Canon Female Photojournalist Fellowship. Mentioned topic : women pilots in Alaska.
- Zor. In the largest gypsy ghetto in Europe by Selene Magnolia. Mentioned topic : the Roma, who constitute the largest minority in Europe and suffer more discrimination than the other groups studied.
- Happy Pills by Paolo Woods & Arnaud Robert. Mentioned topic : the pill appears as an almost magical response to the weaknesses, the melancholy, the unacceptable limits of the human condition.
What is the Visa pour l’image festival?
For 34 years, the Perpignan International Photojournalism Festival, Visa pour l’image, has been one of the main photography events in France and abroad. Seen as “the biggest magazine in the world”, it brings together, over a fortnight, all the major international players in the press and photography. This festival bears witness to daily violence that photoreporters around the world refuse to see trivialized. A jury of directors of photography awards, during the event, the “Visa d’or” prizes among all the subjects seen during the year (published or not) in the categories Visa d’or de la Presse Quotidienne, Visa d’Or ‘or News, Visa d’or Magazine, as well as the winner of the Young Reporter Prize of the city of Perpignan, Visa d’or Paris Match News, and the Visa d’or Région Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée, Magazine category… Find the complete program of the festival on the Visa website for the image.