The press conference of the 27th edition of Visa pour l’Image Perpignan Festival was held last week to introduce this year program . The festival will run from August 29th to September 13th, 2015 with 20 exhibitions that we present today, introduced by the editorial of Jean-François Leroy, Director of the Festival.
Dinosaurs and Nostalgia
Our recent statements defending ethical practices in photojournalism triggered some lively reactions, and we must have heard every argument possible. The world is on the move, so it’s time for photojournalism to move too. We are allegedly the protectors of an old-fashioned, narrow-minded vision of photojournalism. That’s quite a charge!
Such scathing criticism neither concerns us nor upsets us. Au contraire! We see these comments as expressions of encouragement, bolstering our belief in a vision of photojournalism which we have been advocating, in no uncertain terms, over the last 27 festivals.
How and why should photojournalism change? Is the goal to take staged pictures in studio conditions? Do we want “still life” images to conjure up scenes of war? “You know, all those pictures of war and famine look the same in the end.” What sort of cynical, mindless argument is that? Do we hear that kind of nonsense about sports photos? Well, too bad for us! When you look at the wealth of photography we have for the 2015 festival, when you look at what’s coming onto the market (which, as we’ve said so often in so many debates, is getting smaller every year), when you look at the new names appearing, with new talent and more energy, when you wander around Perpignan in September, then you realize that photojournalism is certainly not going to disappear. And that’s good news.
So, long live nostalgia! Long live the dinosaurs! And welcome to the real world.
Jean-François Leroy
PROGRAM 2015
• Mohamed Abdiwahab (AFP)
La Somalie broyée
• Lynsey Addario (Getty Images Reportage)
Réfugiés syriens au Moyen-Orient
• Arnaud Baumann (Sipa Press) et Xavier Lambours (Signatures)
Dans le ventre de Hara-Kiri
Les pères de Charlie
• Daniel Berehulak (Getty Images Reportage)
L’épidémie d’Ebola
• Marcus Bleasdale (Human Rights Watch / National Geographic Magazine)
La désintégration République centrafricaine
• Nancy Borowick
Le cancer, une histoire de famille
• Alejandro Cegarra (Getty Images Reportage)
Le poids de l’héritage d’Hugo Chavez
• Viviane Dalles
Prix Canon de la Femme Photojournaliste 2014 soutenu par le magazine ELLE
Devenir « mère ado »
• Manoocher Deghati
La réalité en face
• Bülent Kiliç (AFP)
De Kiev à Kobané
• Andres Kudacki (AP)
La crise du logement en Espagne
• Gerd Ludwig (National Geographic Creative / National Geographic Magazine)
Tourisme nucléaire
• Pascal Maitre (Cosmos /National Geographic Magazine)
Fleuve Congo, reportage au cœur d’une légende
• Giulio Piscitelli (Contrasto / Réa)
De là-bas à ici : l’immigration et l’Europe-forteresse
• Sergey Ponomarev (pour le New York Times)
La Syrie d’Assad
• Adrienne Surprenant
Hans Lucas
En attendant le canal au Nicaragua
FESTIVAL
Visa pour l’image Perpignan 2015
from August 29th to September 13th, 2015
Hôtel Pams
18 rue Emile Zola
66000 Perpignan
France
+33 4 68 62 38 00
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www.visapourlimage.com
