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Archives - September 3, 2024 American photographer Karen Ballard presents photographs at this year’s Visa pour l'image in a solo exhibition at Maison de la Catalanité from her long-term documentary project on Venice, California. Venice, CA is a compelling and keen insider’s view of the iconic, quirky, bohemian California coastal town known as an artistic hub and a public beach for all. It’s a place where beauty, surf, wealth, and the…
Archives - September 8, 2022 Archives Yan Morvan attended Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan. He gave us these images and this text. Thanks Yan! JJN We could describe Visa 2022 in songs... "Avec le temps", " la ballade des gens heureux", a music: "Once upon a time in the West", "Gunfight at O.K. Corral"... But like these hummed tunes so often unforgettable we would always wish to keep them alive.…
Archives - September 5, 2020 Director of Visa pour Image, Jean-François Leroy discusses the reasons to maintain the festival, between support for photojournalists and the desire not to give up. Of this particular edition, he remembers above all what is positive and the innovations, notably the exhibitions and online screenings which bring new visitors to Visa all over the world. Did the situation of photojournalists during lockdown motivate the…
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José Bassit (Sao Paulo, 1957) is one of the most important photographers of his generation. Photojournalist for the major Brazilian press of the 1980s and 1990s, he gradually left it to favor of more personal and in-depth work. At the end of the 1990s, he traveled across the Northeast of Brazil to document popular religious events, in particular Christian pilgrimages in the sertão, an arid and very poor region, then…
Immerse your eye in the happy nostalgia of one of the most talented American photographers of his generation, Harold Feinstein, this is what Bigaignon is offering at the start of 2022! After two first remarkable exhibitions in 2017 and 2018, the Parisian gallery completes what it had announced as a trilogy, with this exhibition entitled “Life as it was”. If the first part of the retrospective devoted to the American…
In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening, Art Shay, a photographer for LIFE and Time followed Algren an interesting character. On a very hot day in Chicago, Simone, dripping with sweat, stopped by Art’s place to take a shower. As she was freshening up, Art took a few magnificent photographs. We will…
Natural History Museum Denmark
Øster Voldgade 5–7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
from November 21st, 2025 to September 20th, 2026
Galerie de Bazillac
16/17 Galerie Montpensier, 75001 Paris.
from September 14th, 2026 to September 20th, 2026
Fotografa/os por Colombia
Buenaventura, Colombia
from August 25th, 2026 to September 30th, 2026
IRIS Arles
12 rue Diderot, 13200 Arles, France
from August 20th, 2026 to October 4th, 2026
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Jeoffrey Guillemard : Southern Border "The US border begins in southern Mexico." This is how Central American migrants talk of their journey to reach the American dream. Everything begins at the border of Mexico and Guatemala on makeshift rafts launched on the Suchiate River. They must then walk for days before venturing on "La Bestia" (The Beast), the famous freight train that crosses the country. Alone or in a caravan,…
Archives - September 10, 2018 During the festival Yan Morvan shared his diary in pictures, here comes the final day. This daily column is a privileged partnership with Leica who gave Yan the new Leica M10-P camera. You will also find all the photos on Instagram @LeicaCameraFrance and the hashtag #LeicaM10P Yan is in Perpignan to present his book on Bobby Sands published by André Frére and the accompanying exhibition. www.visapourlimage.com
Archives - September 8, 2017 The International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan once again takes its visitors on a world tour, offering a fresh look at the state of the planet beyond the narrative clichés often made necessary by the urgent need to document. In the introduction to his exhibition at Hotel Pams in Perpignan, entitled Tumulte et solitude en Afrique [Turmoil and Solitude in Africa], Marco Longari writes: “A…
Archives - September 6, 2016 Exile, bring together work of 22 Magnum Photographers to present a visual representation of nearly 70 years of international migration and displacement. The exhibition, at Visa Pour L’Image Perpignan, was a collaboration between Magnum Photos and Canon, who also provided a free portfolio reviews for emerging photographers at the festival. Giving a historical context to the current migration crisis in Europe, Exile, include images of civilians returning home following World…
Archives - September 1, 2015 In 2011, as people around the world watched TV reports on the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, the Ukrainian government gave approval for travel inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone which has now become a disaster-tourism destination. Tourists take pictures of the sarcophagus encasing the reactor, but the top attraction is the ghost town of Pripyat, once home to nearly 50,000, now decaying and overgrown by nature,…
Last week, during the 26th Visa pour l’Image, the winners of the Visa d’or have been announced. Tyler Hicks won the Visa d’or News Award for his report on Westgate Mall Massacre, Nairobi. The Visa d'or Feature Award was awarded to Guillaume Herbaut for his report on Ukraine. Maxim Dondyuk won the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award also for his recent work on Ukraine. Eugene Richards got a Lifetime Achievement Visa d'or…
Archives - September 8, 2012 PERPIGNAN DIARY: My last day, The Photographer's Luncheon. by Doug Menuez Traditions are hard to find these days, and as someone raised during an era of smashed traditions in the US I am greatly attracted to them. An enduring and valuable tradition at VIsa Pour L'Image is the private luncheon held to honor the photographers and which is hosted by Visa director Jean François Leroy,…
The mischievous Franco Fontana, with his ever-present smile, left us the day before yesterday for the great colored fields dotted with young women of wandering curiosity. Franco wasn't my friend; our few encounters were always too brief and fleeting for a lasting, easy familiarity. He loved coming to Arles, always bringing along a few of his students to the magical, volunteer-run portfolio reviews organized by Christophe Laloi's Voies Off. Each…
Archives - January 10, 2025 This is one of the major exhibitions of this year: the Franco Fontana retrospective, presented until August 31 at the Museo dell'Ara Pacis in Rome and curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso. It is through a celebration of geometric lines and a riot of colors that Franco Fontana revolutionized Niépce's art from the early 1960s. Using all the optical possibilities of photography (bold framing, shallow depth of…
Archives - September 15, 2023 Conversazione is a meeting between two masters who everything seems to oppose. One flourished thanks to color when the process was still in its infancy. The other tirelessly explored the stigmata of the world around him using black and white. And yet. The works of these two pure products of Italian photography are found in the same reading of landscape, lines and abstraction. Giacomelli and…
Archives - October 10, 2021 Franco Fontana exhibits at Atelier 36 Bastille. We were familiar with Franco Fontana landscapes or seascapes, in which he made work of composition, an ample and colorist composition where graphic purity prevailed and which were used in the book Skyline which appeared in 1978 as a culmination. The subject of American metropolises accompanied by their inevitable urban tumult seemed a priori to go against the…
Archives - June 23, 2021 “Creativity, with the help of Colour, is not just arbitrary creation but a movement which propels life.” – Franco Fontana Atlas Gallery presents Language of Colour, the first UK exhibition in 17 years of work by Franco Fontana (b.1933), the pioneering Italian colour photographer renowned for his intense and abstracted ‘scapes’: landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and bodyscapes. The gallery is showing selected large works from across Fontana’s…
Archives - June 17, 2019 The deep and shimmering colors picking up the calibrated geometric shapes of the photos by Franco Fontana, are on stage in Modena. Sintesi (Synthesis) is the title of the retrospective that FondazioneModena Arti Visive hosts outlining more than sixty years of the artist’s career and exploring his relationships with some of the most well-known photographers of the 20th century. L’Oeil de la Photographie interviewed Franco Fontana…
Archives - May 8, 2014 Bodies like landscapes, hills and planes with anthropomorphic outlines that unequivocally state the visual language of Franco Fontana. “Bright, vibrant colours; a rhythm set by overlapping lines and planes, geometrical shapes built by the light; hyper-real landscapes, true and surreal at one time”, Denis Curti, curator of the exhibition at Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice, says. More than 130 pictures dealing…
Archives - December 16, 2013 The celebrated 1975 book Skyline by Franco Fontana, one of the undisputed masters of color photography, has just been reissued. In 1978, Franco Fontana’s Skyline sent a shockwave through the world of photography. We had never seen landscapes like that, abstract and concrete, a set of perfectly horizontal lines aflame with sensual colors. With the reissue of Skyline nearly 35 years after its release, now…
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