This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – a special edition featuring the 31st Visa Pour L’image Festival in Perpignan, the world’s most renowned photojournalism festival. This year features another amazing collection of visual journalism from around the world.
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Special Feature:
Visa Pour L’Image – 31/8 to 15/9
It is now seven years since I attended my first Visa in the picturesque French town of Perpignan. It was a profound experience that continues to influence my work, both journalistic and scholarly, work that investigates the power of the photograph to impact social change.
Looking at the line-up of exhibitions at this year’s Visa reinforces, for me, the import of photography in informing the public about stories we might not otherwise know about. In the “Age of the Image,” to borrow from Fred Ritchin, visual journalism is more important than ever. These photographs, many of which come to us because journalists have risked their own safety, deserve our full attention. Bravo, to Jean François Leroy and his amazing team in putting together yet another brilliant celebration of photojournalism.
Below is my selection from more than 20 exhibitions. You can visit the website to see the full programme. There’s also a massive screening programme – this is the list as it currently stands.
“Today, with awareness raising and efforts by the international community, the maternal mortality rate has declined by approximately 40% since 1990 according to the World Health Organization. This is the case for all countries in the developed world, with the exception of the United States and Serbia which, tragically, have both seen maternal death rates increase. Many people today have no idea that the natural human events of pregnancy and childbirth can still be fatal for large numbers of women. It is a basic human right for pregnant women to have access to proper healthcare services and perinatal care.” Lynsey Addario.
WOW!!! This evening’s post makes you think about the strange strange world that we inhabit…!
Photographers bring these images to us … The images do call on us to act … to think
How should we respond…?
WOW!!! This evening’s post makes you think about the strange strange world that we inhabit…!
Photographers bring these images to us … The images do call on us to act … to think
How should we respond…?
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