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Visa Pour l'Image À Perpignan
Visa for the image in Perpignan
From Saturday September 2 to Sunday September 17, 2023, Perpignan is hosting the 35th edition of Visa pour l'Image, the highly anticipated international photojournalism festival.
This is the back-to-school event in Perpignan . From Saturday September 2 to Sunday September 17, 2023, the Catalan city will become the international capital of photojournalism with the 35th edition of the long-awaited Visa pour l'Image festival.
Jean-François Leroy promises an "exceptional program"
"This year again, we have an exceptional program in more ways than one", immediately promises Jean-François Leroy, director and founder of this meeting renowned beyond our borders.
The war in Ukraine , the terrible earthquake in Turkey and Syria , the elections in Brazil, the revolts in Iran , the pension reform in France… As usual, Visa pour l'Image will scan the main topics that made international news between September 2022 and August 2023.
Twenty-four exhibitions, screenings, conferences and a multitude of award ceremonies are scheduled from September 2 to 17. From September 18 to 22 and from September 25 to 29, the festival will continue especially for schoolchildren.
About twenty free exhibitions to discover
Here is the complete program of exhibitions organized for the 35th edition of Visa pour l'Image:
Convent of the Minims:
- Anthropocene Photography / James Balog
- The Day May Break / Nick Brandt
- Search, Save and Protect / Michael Bunel
- Without water we die / Giles Clarke
- Didjla: journey along the Tigris / Emily Garthwaite
- War is peace / Nanna Heitmann
- Bakhmout, a city at war / Tyler Hicks
- Charcoal: the black gold of the poor / Pascal Maitre
- Louisiana: the first climate refugees from the United States / Sandra Mehl
- The saddest country in the world and the worst country for women / Ebrahim Noroozi
- My Visa years / Paolo Pellegrin
- The past is never dead / Mark Peterson
- Revolts in Iran / Anonymous photographs
- Sublime poison / Christopher Rogel Blanquet
- High Risk Pregnancies After Dobbs/Stephanie Sinclair Shutdown