The annual occasion is an opportunity to take a look at the highlights of the year beyond: wars, crisis, politics, sport, culture, science and environment.
“Unfortunately, the world continues outside of Ukraine . . . Things are getting worse all over the world and, because of Ukraine, we no longer communicate,” said Jean-François Leroy, who founded the festival in 1989.
“We are committed to bringing out the global news in its entirety. “
25 exhibits are on the program, from the war in Afghanistan noted by Andrew Quilty of the VU agency, to the Burmese rebels over Siegfried Modola’s target. Then there is the environmental apocalypse documented by Alain Ernoult and the effect of fishing advertising shown through George Steinmetz.
With “Tears of Trauma”, Lebanese photographer Tamara Saade uses her photographs to denounce “negligence and corruption”, the origin of the chemical explosion that devastated part of Beirut in August 2020, and the economic depression in which her country is plunged. .
“Discretion” through Françoise Huguier the intimacy of a fashion show, Korean backrooms or the newest collective apartments in St. Petersburg.
The complexity and fragility of the human condition are at the heart of Valerio Bispuri’s “Rooms of the Mind,” which focuses on the invisible world of intellectual disease. American photojournalist Eugene Richards explores similar themes in “An Outsider. “
Like the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, which has been in the headlines since February, may be absent from Visa, Leroy explains.
The festival will bring together Mstyslav Maloletka and Evgeniy Chernov, the latest news hounds to cover the Mariupol blockade for the Associated Press, who were expelled from the city in March.
Six nights of screenings at Campo Santo, Perpignan’s iconic medieval site, will commemorate the peak events of the past 12 months.
The awards, which reward the most productive reports of the coming year, will be presented from August 31, with the Visa d’Or News on the night of September 3.
► Visa Pour l’Image will be open from August 27 to September 11, 2022. It will be exhibited at La Villette in Paris from September 16 to 30.