Down with Visa for the image. The main international photojournalism festival presented on Tuesday the pre-programming of its 33rd edition, which is to take place in Perpignan from August 28 to September 4. And one thing is already certain: the health crisis will not monopolize all the attention of the cultural event, which intends to continue to “
reflect and understand the world
” with images of the crises that cross the world, from Venezuela to Sudan. For this second Visa
"under Covid"
, only a few exhibitions will address the pandemic, notably
Life and Death in New Delhi
by Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui,
My Portugal
by AFP photographer Patricia de Melo Moreira, or
Double Peine
a collective work of the Myop agency.
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"We said to ourselves that the Covid was well treated in the media,"
Jean-François Leroy, the emblematic president of the festival, added during a presentation video conference, insisting on the importance of revealing the hot spots of the planet.
“Our societies have continued to go through other crises, to undergo new conflicts,”
added the photographer.
"In this time in the grip of new obscurantism, where indignation is raging and where we are both actors and victims of anxious disinformation, these reports allow us to reflect and better understand the world in which we live"
, he mentioned more precisely in his editorial.
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Burma
Antoine Agoutian will thus testify to the conflict in the Haut-Karabakh, while in another exhibition devoted to the coverage of Syria by AFP, one will be able to discover, alongside the photographs of the journalists
"the most experienced of the agency"
, images of
“independent collaborators from all walks of life, as well as“ citizen journalists ””
from a wide variety of backgrounds.
"For the first time at Visa there will be an exhibition by an anonymous photographer, for obvious security reasons
" on
"the Spring Revolution in Burma"
, also announced Jean-François Leroy.
The questions that crossed the world of photojournalism after the election in 2020 in the Catalan city of a far-right municipality seem today on the way to being outdated.
"There is not only the fury of the world, there is also the beauty of the world"
, launched André Bonet the municipal deputy for Culture who recommended to festival-goers - on behalf of the mayor Louis Aliot (National Gathering) - the work of two animal photographers: the retrospective around the work of Vincent Munier or
The secrets of the whales
by Brian Skerry.