Visa pour l’Image and Le Figaro Magazine have joined forces to create a Visa d’or award in recognition of the lifetime achievement of an established photographer who is still working. Picture editors from magazines around the world select the winner for this, the third year and therefore third award. The laureate is Pascal Maitre (1955), french photographer from Cosmos agency. The Lifetime Achievement Visa d’or Award, sponsored by Le Figaro Magazine, with prize money of €8000, was presented in Perpignan on Friday September 4, 2015.
Previous winners: Don McCullin (2013), Eugene Richards (2014).