ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award
The ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award has been awarded annually to a professional photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue related to an armed conflict since 2011. It is part of the annual Visa pour l’image international festival of photojournalism, which takes place in Perpignan, France. From 2011 to 2015, the ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award[1] rewarded a photojournalist who had worked on the issue of violence against health care services in armed conflict. From 2015 to 2017, the competition focused on the situation of women in war: sexual violence, women in detention, women looking for missing family members, female fighters or also women becoming single heads of household. In 2018, the contest's theme changed to tackle the consequences of urban warfare on civilians.
| ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue related armed conflicts |
| Sponsored by | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| First awarded | 2011 |
| Website | www |
History edit
In 2011, the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in France decided to create the “ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award”, endowed with 8,000 euros. The aim: honor the work photojournalists carry out every day in the field, and above all, inform the most people possible of violations of international humanitarian law.
Awards winners edit
2020 edit
Theme: the consequences of urban warfare on civilians
The ICRC Humanitarian Visa Award was awarded to Alfredo Bosco,[2] a freelance photographer and contributor to Luz Photo Agency in Milan. Geopolitical crises are the main focus of his work. He won the 10th edition of the ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or Award with a report about drug war in the state of Guerrero (Mexico).
2019 edit
Theme: the consequences of urban warfare on civilians
Abdulmonam Eassa,[3] Syrian photojournalist, born in 1995, now refugee in France, was rewarded for a report about the humanitarian consequences of the fighting in Eastern Ghouta in 2018. He started his career in photojournalism as a self-taught freelance photographer. He works with Agence France Presse.
2018 edit
Theme: the consequences of urban warfare on civilians
Véronique de Viguérie,[4] French photojournalist was rewarded for her report “Heroines, war made”, which pays tribute to Yemeni women, surviving in urban areas, and who in the absence of men, act as heads of families or also nurses. She works with Getty Images and Verbatim Photo Agency, among others.
2017 edit
Theme: Women in war
Angela Ponce Romero,[5] Peruvian photojournalist from the Diario Correo, was rewarded for her work entitled “Ayacucho” accomplished in Peru. "Ayacucho”, from the Quechua words “aya” meaning “corpse” and “cucho” meaning “corner,” is the “corner of the dead.” Her report covers commemorative events held in Ayacucho, in 2016 and 2017, with families still looking for their relatives gone missing during the civil war in the 80s.
2016 edit
Theme: Women in war
Juan Arredonde,[6] Colombian-American photojournalist who often works with the New York Times and National Geographic, was rewarded for his photo essay “Born into Conflict: Child soldiers in Colombia”
2015 edit
Theme: Women in war
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi,[7] photojournalist for the New York Times, WSJ, Le Monde and Vice was rewarded in 2015 for her work entitled “Minova rape trials” shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2014 edit
Theme: violence against health care services in armed conflict
The ICRC Humanitarian Visa Award was awarded to the National Geographic contributor, the French photojournalist William Daniels,[8] for his work entitled “Humanitarian Crisis in the Central African Republic”
2013 edit
Theme: violence against health care services in armed conflict
Sebastiano Tomada (Piccolomini),[9] American photojournalist, working with Getty Images, was rewarded for his report in Syria called « Life and Death in Aleppo ».
2012 edit
Theme: violence against health care services in armed conflict
The Franco-Algerian photojournalist and film-maker Mani[10] was rewarded in 2012 for his work produced for the French Media Le Monde, for his report “Syria, inside Homs”
2011 edit
Theme: violence against health care services in armed conflict
The Spanish and French photographer Catalina Martin-Chicoo[11] from Cosmos agency was the first winner of the ICRC Humanitarian Visa Award for her report “The First Square Kilometer of Freedom: Change Square, Sana’a, Yemen”
References edit
- ^ The ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award Archived 2019-04-23 at the Wayback Machine, L'Humanitaire dans tous ses états, blog of the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in France
- ^ Alfredo Bosco: The ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’Or Award 2020, The Eye of the Photography, September 2020
- ^ 'Disclose' wins Visa d'or for probe into French arms in Yemen, RFI, 6 September 2019
- ^ Véronique de Viguerie wins Visa d'Or photojournalism prize for Yemen work, France 24, 10 September 2018
- ^ Peruvian photographer Angela Ponce Romero wins Humanitarian Visa d’Or award, RFI, 19 September 2017
- ^ Documenting Colombia's child soldiers, Global Journalist, 3 December 2018
- ^ Photos of Landmark Africa rape trial garner prize, Newsweek, 16 August 2015
- ^ La Centrafrique en rage à Visa pour l'image, RFI, 5 September 2014
- ^ Photojournalism: Sebastiano Tomada wins the ICRC’s Humanitarian Visa d'Or prize for a report from Syria, ICRC website, 21 June 2013
- ^ Humanitarian visa d'or for photojournalism on health-care challenges in Syria, ICRC website, 5 September 2012
- ^ Visa pour l'image 2011 : le palmarès, Le Monde de la photo, 04/09/2011