Nik Wheeler’s portrayal of life among the marshmen of southern Iraq is the only in-depth photo-reportage in the marshes ever authorized by Saddam Hussein’s regime. The photos, originally shot as…
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Misha Friedman won PixPalace ANI-2011 with his report on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the former Soviet Union. He received a prize of € 5,000. Tuberculosis is again a very deadly disease…
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a people powered movement that began on Sept 17, 2011 with the occupation of Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) in the Financial District of lower…
I’m 26 years old when I leave New York, my boyfriend and my job as a photo editor, to cover the war of liberation in Rhodesia. Why? I love Africa,…
I had joined Sipa the year before. I photographed stars and royalty, like Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco, at a time when photographers talked to the people they followed as…
It only took a few weeks for the outrage movement (‘the indignant ones’) to sweep through Europe. Spain, Greece, Israel, Germany, England, Belgium, France: in each instance the same…
For the last 24 years, the celebrated French magazine PHOTO dedicate its September issue to the Visa pour l’Image festival. This year is no exception, and for the occasion,…
Breakfast at Cafe de la Poste by the mini-castle, coffee and croissant with Michel Puech, who told us a fantastic story about his involvement with Le Minitel, France’s early version…
Mete Zhinioglu, chief executive of Sipa Press, answers a few questions about the agency's future. How has Sipa evolved this year ?…
From social uprising to civil war, Syria has one of the most complex narratives of the Arab Spring, a fractured society with a myriad of viewpoints but seemingly no solutions.…