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Winners of the 2024 Visa d'Or Awards

Posted on September 14, 2024 - By Visa pour l’Image
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€193,000 is awarded to talented photojournalists during the professional week of Visa pour l’Image.


The Visa d'Or Awards stand as some of the most coveted accolades in the world of photojournalism, honoring photographers who produce outstanding work that illuminates critical global issues. Presented as part of the renowned Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, these prestigious awards celebrate the photojournalists whose images reflect a deep commitment to truth, artistry, and storytelling. Each year, these professionals demonstrate extraordinary courage, creativity, and tenacity as they venture into some of the most challenging and dangerous environments around the world, capturing images that both inform and inspire.

The 2024 edition of the Visa d'Or Awards has continued this legacy, drawing attention to an exceptional variety of talent. From documenting the devastation in conflict zones to exploring the ongoing effects of climate change and exposing human rights violations, the nominated photographers offer an intimate look at some of the world's most pressing concerns. Following a week filled with exhibitions, screenings, and insightful discussions, the much-anticipated announcement of the 2024 Visa d'Or Award winners has now arrived, revealing a collection of the year's most compelling and powerful visual stories.

Visa D'or News
Mahmud Hams/AFP
For the first time, the association Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan will fund the prize of €8,000 for the Visa d’or news Award winner. The 2024 winner is Mahmud Hams / AFP for his work on Gaza.

Mahmud Hams

© Mahmud Hams/AFP


A wounded Palestinian woman from the Baraka family is surrounded by her children upon their arrival at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip following Israeli air strikes that hit their building on November 13, 2023. Israel is facing intense international pressure to minimise civilian suffering amid a massive air and ground operation that Hamas authorities say has already killed more than 11,000 people, including thousands of children. The military campaign came after Hamas fighters broke through the militarised border with Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 240 people hostage, according to the most recent Israeli figures.



Visa d’or Feature Award
Katie Orlinsky Katie Orlinsky for National Geographic
For the seventeenth time, the region of occitanie / Pyrénées-méditerranée will fund the prize money of €8,000 for the Visa d’or Feature award winner. The 2024 winner is Katie Orlinsky for National Geographic magazine for her work “Vanishing Caribou”.

Katie Orlinsky

Caribou (tutu in Inupiaq) crossing Brooks Range, Alaska, during the spring migration to calving grounds © Katie Orlinsky for National Geographic





Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Visa d’or Award
Loay Ayyoub for The Washington Post
in late june, picture editors from international magazines voted for the best young reporter for the Ville de Perpignan Rémi ochlik Visa d’or Award which is being presented this year for the eighteenth time. The Ville de Perpignan sponsors the prize of €8,000. The 2024 winner is the young palestinian photographer, Loay Ayyoub for his coverage in Gaza for The Washington Post.

Loay Ayyoub

People looking at what remains of the Al-Aklouk residential tower after an Israeli airstrike. Gaza City, October 8, 2023. © Loay Ayyoub for The Washington Post





Visa d'Or des Solidarités Award
Pierre Faure/Hans Lucas
For the first time, the département des Pyrénées-orientales will fund the prize of €8,000 for the winner of the new award, the Visa d’or des Solidarités. The winner is Pierre Faure for his work “on the Fringe of Society in France”.

Pierre Faure

René is retired. He used to raise livestock, and lived in dire conditions. He saw farmers getting poorer and poorer and realized that his world would disappear. Central France, Puy-de-Dôme, 2016. © Pierre Faure /Hans Lucas





ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or Award – International Committee of the Red Cross
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
The iCRC Humanitarian Visa d’or award is granted in recognition of the work of a professional photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue related to civilians, the primary victims of armed conflicts. The winner of this year’s award, with prize money of €8,000 funded by the ICRC, is Hugh Kinsella Cunningham for his work on the fate of the civilian population in the eastern democratic Republic of Congo.

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Soldiers with the DRC Armed Forces moving past Zaina displacement camp which is emptying as the frontline moves closer. April 8, 2023, Sake, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. © Hugh Kinsella Cunningham





Canon Female Photojournalist Grant
Cynthia Boll
For the twenty-fourth year in a row, Canon and Visa pour l’image will be presenting the prestigious Canon Female Photojournalist Grant to an outstanding photographer. The 2024 winner, Cynthia Boll, will receive the grant with prize money of €8,000 to continue her work on the social impact of the relocation of indonesia’s capital city from jakarta to the new capital, nusantara, on the island of Borneo

Cynthia Boll

The growing economy of the city of Jakarta requires more land for housing and industry, but land reclamation in the northern part of Jakarta Bay is threatening the livelihood of fishermen and coastal communities. “I have only a small boat and cannot go far out to sea,” says Pak Lukman, a member of a group of fishermen opposed to the reclamation project. © Cynthia Boll





Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award
Gaëlle Girbes
The award, which is being sponsored for the tenth time by laScam (the collecting society for multimedia authors). The award, with prize money of €8,000, will be presented to the 2024 winner, Gaëlle Girbes, and will provide her with support to continue her project “Ukraine, surviving amidst the ruins.” She will be able to cover war-torn towns and villages and bear witness to the extraordinary resilience of the people surviving in the ruins, caught in the middle of the largest conflict in Europe since the end of the Second World War.

Gaëlle Girbes

Ludmilla (89), outside her home damaged by shells. November 23, 2023, Siversk, Donbas, Ukraine. © Gaëlle Girbes





Camille Lepage Award
Virginie Nguyen Hoang/Collectif Huma
The Association named Camille Lepage – On est ensemble was founded on September 20, 2014, only months after the death of Camille Lepage while reporting in the Central African Republic. The Association commemorates Camille, her work and commitment. For the eighth time, the collecting society la Saif* is supporting the award (€8,000) which provides backing and encouragement for a photojournalist committed to a long-term project. The winner of the 2024 award is Virginie Nguyen Hoang / Collectif Huma, who will now be able to continue her work in Ukraine, reporting on the effect of the war on diana, a young girl in Kharkiv living alone with her grandfather, and soon to reach her teenage years.

Virginie Nguyen Hoang

Growing up, too fast, in Kharkiv. First thing in the morning, Diana puts on make-up before meeting up with friends in the neighborhood. She is only 11, but is already behaving like a teenager. Kharkiv, May 13, 2023 © Virginie Nguyen Hoang





Urban Newcomer Photographer’s Grant sponsored by Google
Lilas Lehanneur
For the fifth time, Google, Visa pour l’image and dysturb will be awarding a grant for a newcomer to photography. All three partners see the grant as a commitment to support innovative approaches to urban stories. The grant provides funding of €8,000 plus guidance from google, Visa pour l’image and dysturb. The 2024 winner is Lilas Lehanneur.

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