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ItalianoThe exhibition programme for the 20th Visa pour l’Image International Festival of Photojournalism (30 August to 14 September 2008) has expanded with more of the biggest names in photojournalism added to the line-up at the event to be held in Perpignan, France.
Images of Virunga National Park, Congo shot by Getty Images photographer Brent Stirton will be showcased at Visa pour l'Image. The festival will also exhibit photographs of 'Bangladesh, standing on the edge' by Munem Wasif (Vu) and 'Kenya - post-election violence' by Enrico Dagnino (2e Bureau).
The exhibitions 'Congo in Limbo' by Cédric Gerbehaye (Vu), 'The Portrait Test' by Pierre Gonnord, and an examination of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans by Kadir van Lohuizen (Noor) will feature at Visa pour l'Image.
In total some 30 exhibitions will be on show at the Visa pour l’Image festival and these will also include a showcase of the press photography of AFP between 1989 and 2008 as well as a selection of the five best entries in the Grand Prix CARE International du Reportage Humanitaire contest for pictures that highlight situations or abuses of human rights. The winner of the 2008 CARE contest will be revealed during the Visa pour l’Image event. The work of Axelle de Russé (winner of the 2007 Canon AFJ Award for female photojournalists) on the return of concubines in Chinese society will also feature.
To celebrate the 20th Visa pour l’Image festival, which began in 1989, another key part of the programme for 2008 is a series of special features put together in association with leading magazines and the world’s leading photojournalists. Recent additions to this major programme are Nina Berman (Redux Pictures) who is shooting for The Sunday Times Magazine on 'Homeland, USA'; Stanley Greene (Noor), who will be producing a report on drug smuggling routes from Afghanistan for the Russian Reporter Magazine; and The Iraqi Diaspora' by Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos) for Vanity Fair.
The two headlining exhibitions at the 2008 Visa festival are ‘This is War’ featuring the work of legendary Life magazine photographer David Douglas Duncan and a major Horst Faas retrospective ‘Horst Faas, 50 years of Photojournalism’ that covers the long career of the former Keystone Picture Agency and Associated Press photographer.
Two other confirmed exhibitions for 2008 are the World Press Photo exhibition and the Daily Press exhibition in which daily newspapers from around the world exhibit their best shots of the year in a hid to win the Visa d’Or award. There will be a tribute exhibition of photographs of the late Alexandra Boulat, the VII photo agency photographer who died in October 2007. ‘Afghanistan’ showcases the photography of Getty Images’ Paula Bronstein in modern day Afghanistan, whilst ‘GS 68 – May 1968’ features the pictures of Goksin Sipahioglu that documented the French student uprisings in Paris during May 1968.
Canon is the main sponsor of the Visa pour l’Image 2008 event. Look out for details of Canon’s programme of events during Visa pour l’Image 2008 on the CPN site in the near future.
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