Archives : Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2014 : The Winners

Kiev, Khreshchatyk Avenue, December 9, 2013, 9.29 am.Two Cossacks on a barricade manned by pro-EU activists near Independence Square. © Guillaume Herbaut / Institute

February 19, 2014, After the clashes, police and riot police remained on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. © Maxim Dondyuk, Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award 2014

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 1990: After the birth of his first child, new father Jim Vogt kisses his wife, Sarina, at Georgetown University Hospital in December 1990 in Washington, D.C. Jim hadn't noticed that the baby was a boy, whom the couple named Zachary. © Eugene Richards

Fourteen-year-old Masai gils, Isina and Naserian, the day before their circumcision. © Meeri Koutaniemi / Helsingin Sanomat

The operation will be done by a local woman, using a razor blade. © Meeri Koutaniemi / Helsingin Sanomat

A grieving relative of Sept-Abel Sangomalet, a 20-year-old Christian killed by Muslims who entered the family home and stabbed him in his sleep. © William Daniels / Panos Pictures - Winner of the Humanitarian Visa d'or award - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2014

One of the gangsters in Medellin. He has scars all over his body that he said he was attacked by rival gang groups. ..When drug lord and paramilitary boss, Don Berna was extradited to the U.S. in May 2008, and Medellin lost its boss, the town spiraled into chaos. All small narco groups started fighting for control of the city, and ultimately, for control of the cocaine trade. Homicide rates in Medellin rose by more than 30 % in 2008. In 2009 there were more than 2000 murder which made Medellin again one of the most dangerous city in the world. in 2010, only in January and February, there wre over 600 homicide already. ..In 2011, the homicide rates dropped but the war still continue between 2 drug lords. Medellin has been divided under 2 drug lord, Valenciano and Sebastian. All gang groups belong either 2 drug lord. © Kosuke Okahara

Jesus, Make-up & Football © Frederik Buyck

Hindu devotees' Along the banks of the river Ganges, get ready to soak in the water of the sacred river, India 2008. © Giulio Di Sturco

Bolivia. Durango colony. Mennonite family in front of their house (2006). From right to left: Gerhard Klassen (36), Anna Bren (35) with baby Sarah (1), Heinrich (13), Peter (12), Eva (11), Catarina (9), Anna (8), Gerhard (6), Elisabet (5), Elena (3) and Jacob (2). © Jordi Busque

July 16, 2013. A child from the indigenous community Embera Catio plays in the ruins of a port in the town on Bella Vista in Chocu221au2265, Colombia. © Juan Arredondo

Brightness Sishi, 25 (right), leads the funeral procession for her aunt Thembi Veze, along with her brother, Bongumenzi Knowledge Sishi, 15. Thabsile and Bongumenzi have been living with their aunt and her three children in the Richmond Farm Transit Camp near Durban since 2009. u201cIn the camp, I can't say it's nice to stay here- there's no park, nowhere to play soccer, nowhere to rest,u201d says Bongumenzi. u201cIt's too dangerous. There's no security. We are waiting for moving - they are still building the RDPs. They said we would be here two years.u201d © Krisanne Johnson

Bangui. A man arrested by MISCA (Mission Internationale de Soutien a la Centrafrique Sous Conduite Africaine) soldiers lies on the ground with his wrists tied. He was found with a grenade in a pocket. © William Daniels