COUVENT DES MINIMES. VICTOR DRACHEV. VIT & GRAVITASLast Sunday ended photojournalism festival Visa pour L'Image held like every year in Perpignan, France.
This year has been very special for the crisis and the statements of the director Jean-François Leroy: Photojournalism is dying. Leroy believes the fault lies with the press, not with the photographers: They feel helpless. They were dying to go, to find funding to create stories and to document and carry out their reports . And Leroy remarked that the stories on location are more often financed by NGOs than by the press.
I went to Perpignan (two hours drive from Barcelona) on Monday with some friends. He was a beautiful day and a pleasure to walk all day through the streets of the beautiful French city. Curiously, despite the bad omens released by festival director, I thought the level was very high, even more than at other times.
COUVENT SAINTE CLAIRE. MIQUEL DEWEVER-PLANA. THE OTHER WAR. GUATEMALA
I would divide the Visa’s thirty professional exhibitions in three blocks: The World Press Photo, recent stories and retrospectives. The World Press Photo is an excellent exhibition. In the world, you can find many photographers producing remarkable images. The exposition we will see soon, in all its extension, in the CCCB of Barcelona thanks to Photographic Social Vision.
Among recent stories, without doubting, the one that struck me the most was Upstate Girls. What became of Collar City? A report by Brenda Ann Kenneally that for five years followed the lives of six young women who come to age in a context of service-sector economy and explores in depth the emotional and psychological aspects of poverty.
Kenneally's work won, to me very deservedly, the World Press Photo this year for best story and Canon 2008 Prize for Women Photojournalist.
I was struck by War is Personal by Eugene Richards. It is a collection of 15 stories photographed in black and white, some with harsh images on Americans whose lives have been profoundly affected by the Iraq war. Without visiting the site of conflict Richards shows us and tells a story that denounces the horrors of war and its consequences in an extraordinary way.
Italian Massimo Berruti, Vu agency, describes, in black and white, the situation in Pakistan. There are several reports on Pakistan in this issue of Visa, but Pakistan-Truth or fiction? shines due to the visual and technical mastery of Berruti that got Young Reporter Award of the City of Perpignan 2009 for this story.
In a world bombarded by a barrage of images, originality is a sure bet. In this area highlights the history of Ulla Lohmann, City of Ashes. Over 15 years the photographer describes life in the city of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, a paradise until the volcano Mt. Tarvuvur erupted. Lohmann tells the daily struggle of a population living permanently in a shower of ashes.
This year has been very special for the crisis and the statements of the director Jean-François Leroy: Photojournalism is dying. Leroy believes the fault lies with the press, not with the photographers: They feel helpless. They were dying to go, to find funding to create stories and to document and carry out their reports . And Leroy remarked that the stories on location are more often financed by NGOs than by the press.
I went to Perpignan (two hours drive from Barcelona) on Monday with some friends. He was a beautiful day and a pleasure to walk all day through the streets of the beautiful French city. Curiously, despite the bad omens released by festival director, I thought the level was very high, even more than at other times.
COUVENT SAINTE CLAIRE. MIQUEL DEWEVER-PLANA. THE OTHER WAR. GUATEMALAI would divide the Visa’s thirty professional exhibitions in three blocks: The World Press Photo, recent stories and retrospectives. The World Press Photo is an excellent exhibition. In the world, you can find many photographers producing remarkable images. The exposition we will see soon, in all its extension, in the CCCB of Barcelona thanks to Photographic Social Vision.
Among recent stories, without doubting, the one that struck me the most was Upstate Girls. What became of Collar City? A report by Brenda Ann Kenneally that for five years followed the lives of six young women who come to age in a context of service-sector economy and explores in depth the emotional and psychological aspects of poverty.
Kenneally's work won, to me very deservedly, the World Press Photo this year for best story and Canon 2008 Prize for Women Photojournalist.
I was struck by War is Personal by Eugene Richards. It is a collection of 15 stories photographed in black and white, some with harsh images on Americans whose lives have been profoundly affected by the Iraq war. Without visiting the site of conflict Richards shows us and tells a story that denounces the horrors of war and its consequences in an extraordinary way.
Italian Massimo Berruti, Vu agency, describes, in black and white, the situation in Pakistan. There are several reports on Pakistan in this issue of Visa, but Pakistan-Truth or fiction? shines due to the visual and technical mastery of Berruti that got Young Reporter Award of the City of Perpignan 2009 for this story.
In a world bombarded by a barrage of images, originality is a sure bet. In this area highlights the history of Ulla Lohmann, City of Ashes. Over 15 years the photographer describes life in the city of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, a paradise until the volcano Mt. Tarvuvur erupted. Lohmann tells the daily struggle of a population living permanently in a shower of ashes.
Among the retrospective, and above all then, "A vulnerable moment" of Steve McCurry. The Magnum photographer masterfully dominates the scenes, the light and colour and leaves us the gift of beautiful images.
Interesting is In the Name of Who? Abbas, mainly because of the sample of their contact sheets, copies of work, page layout and cover tests ruled over the seven years of his journey through the Islamic world.
And one emotional tribute to Françoise Demulder, the war photographer: Vietnam, Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, and Ethiopia ..., who was formerly a model and who died recently. An exhibition scheduled, appropriately enough, in the exhibition room named after Alexandra Boulat.
COUVENT DES MINIMES. PASCAL MAITRE. SOMALIA
ARSENAL DES CARMES. DAILY PRESS
EGLISE DES DOMINICAINS. CALLIE SELL. BARAK OBAMA
Interesting is In the Name of Who? Abbas, mainly because of the sample of their contact sheets, copies of work, page layout and cover tests ruled over the seven years of his journey through the Islamic world.
And one emotional tribute to Françoise Demulder, the war photographer: Vietnam, Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, and Ethiopia ..., who was formerly a model and who died recently. An exhibition scheduled, appropriately enough, in the exhibition room named after Alexandra Boulat.
COUVENT DES MINIMES. PASCAL MAITRE. SOMALIA
ARSENAL DES CARMES. DAILY PRESS
EGLISE DES DOMINICAINS. CALLIE SELL. BARAK OBAMADespite all the threats on photojournalism, I’m sure that Visa pour l'Image will return next year with the same strength and success as in previous editions.
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