The 2015 Arthus-Bertrand Visa d’or awards go to the best reportages published between September 2014 and August 2015. Laureates are Daniel Berehulakwith The Ebola Epidemic for The Visa d’or Feature , and Bülent Kiliç for the Visa d’or awards for news reporting on Syrian Refugees at the Turkish border. For the Arthus-Bertrand Visa d’or awards 2015, picture editors and assistant picture editors make a selection from all the reportages seen over the past year (both published and unpublished), choosing nominees per category. A second jury meets in Perpignan to choose the final winners. Trophies are designed and made by the Arthus-Bertrand workshops.
Visa d’or Feature
The Visa d’or Feature award were presented on Friday, September 4, 2015.
For the eighth time, the Région Languedoc-Roussillon donated the prize of €8000 for the Visa d’or Feature award winner.
The 2015 nominated photographers for Visa d’or Features category are:
Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times / Getty Images Reportage : The Ebola Epidemic (see series here)
Sarah Caron / Polaris / Hans Lucas : Immigration in Sicily (see series here)
Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times : Assad’s Syria (see series here)
Jérôme Sessini / Magnum Photos : Ukraine (see series here)
Visa d’or News
The Visa d’or Feature award were presented on Saturday, September 5, 2015.
For the eighth time, Paris Match donated the prize of €8000 to the Visa d’or News award winner.
The 2015 nominated photographers for Visa d’or News category are:
Bülent Kiliç / AFP: Syrian Refugees at the Turkish border (see series here)
Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times / Getty Images Reportage: Earthquake in Nepal (see series here)
Jérôme Delay / AP: Burundi (see series here)
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters: Burundi (see series here)
