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The French Association of Women Journalists (AFJ) and Canon Communication et Image France has launched, with Images Evidence, the seventh Canon Female Photojournalist Award.

The Award, currently of €8,000, is given out every year at the Visa pour L’Image festival in September in Perpignan, France, and aims to support a woman photographer to complete a documentary project. It is open to professional women photojournalists of any age and nationality.

The winner will be selected by a jury made up of photography and press professionals, as well as members of the AFJ. Applications for the award will be judged on the presentation of the applicant’s chosen project and on their previous work. The winner of the 2007 award will produce an ongoing one-year project leading to an exhibition or showing at Visa pour L’Image in 2008.
French photographer Veronique de Viguerie won last year’s award for her project ‘Communist Militiawomen in Nepal’.
For more information on applying for the award, visit www.canonafjprix.com. The deadline for applications is 31 May, 2007.