Visa pour l’image: Perpignan festival of photojournalism 2026 – in pictures

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Soldiers in a truck drive past damaged buildings

A selection of the powerful photojournalism being shown at this year’s Visa pour l’image exhibition in France

Sudanese soldiers drive through a damaged market in Omdurman. The city, which has the second biggest population in Sudan, has been the scene of continuous fighting since April 2023. Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa pour Le Monde/Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan 2026

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A woman wipes tears from her eyes as she stands by a doorway of a room with her daughter

International Daily Press, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Dominic Nahr

A woman breaks down inside Sweida hospital in Syria while searching for news of missing relatives with her daughter. Swiss photojournalist Dominic Nahr has won the prestigious 2026 Daily Press Visa d’or award (Visa d’or de la Presse Quotidienne). This is the third year that the award has been sponsored by Sipa Press, with €8,000 in prize money going to the winnerPhotograph: Dominic Nahr/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A man carries his malnourished daughter in blankets across a dusty yard

International Daily Press, Politiken, Mads Nissen

In Sudan, Malik Tahir carries his 16-year-old daughter, Aisha, whose weight had fallen to just 21kg. Aisha’s family spent five months fleeing conflict around the city of Kadugli before reaching the Goz Al-Salam IDP camp in Kosti, South Sudan with little food and no access to medical care. Aisha had not eaten for two weeks and was severely dehydrated. She was transported to a clinic and later transferred to a hospital where doctors diagnosed kidney failure linked to dehydration and malnutrition. Aisha died two weeks laterPhotograph: Mads Nissen/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
People running past a burning car

International Daily Press, Helsingin Sanomat, Traces of war in Tehran by Erfan Kouchari

Wounded people are evacuated in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in central Tehran on 1 March 2026, a day before the US and Israel declared war on IranPhotograph: Erfan Kouchari/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A girl stands on top of a pile of mattresses on a tractor

International Daily Press, Le Figaro, Antoni Lallican

Standing on top of a pile of mattresses on her father’s tractor, Rawan, 11, looks at Al-Amqiyah, the Syrian village her family comes from but where she has never beenPhotograph: Antoni Lallican pour Le Figaro/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A landscape of Greenland with a silhouette of a Trump figurine in the foreground

International Daily Press, Liberation, Greenland after the threat of Trump

A Donald Trump figurine in Laila Sandgreen’s window. Ilulissat, Greenland. In January 2026, Trump repeated his intention to acquire Greenland, not ruling out the use of force to achieve his goalPhotograph: Juliette Pavy/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Two Muslim women walk past a mural of Pippi Longstocking

International Daily Press, Berlingske, Søren Bidstrup

A large mural of Pippi Longstocking – a fictional symbol of freedom, courage and girl power – next to the entrance of the women’s section at the Islamic Cultural Centre on Rinkeby Square, StockholmPhotograph: Søren Bidstrup/Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan 2026
A woman in a robe that covers all but her eyes and hands

International Daily Press, Médiapart, Arthur Larie

Aziza Taherddine Dafallah, 18, from North Darfur, was kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers along with her sisters. She managed to escape and found refuge in the Ouré-Cassoni camp in ChadPhotograph: Arthur Larie/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Young people sitting on a stone wall by a staircase

International Daily Press, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Lucas Bäuml

A group of young singers enjoy a break in a courtyard between warming up and their performancePhotograph: Lucas Bäuml/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A landscape showing dozens of men digging in the red soil

Hervé Lequeux and Hans Lucas, Boza free: The Exile of Guinean Minors

Hundreds of young men work up to ten hours a day in 40C heat to extract the gold-bearing soil in Fatoya, Guinea. This allows them to earn a few euros a week to fund their journey to EuropePhotograph: Hervé Lequeux / CNAP / Le Figaro Magazine/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Two men in combat fatigues and a woman in Adidas sportswear in a sitting room

Marion Péhée, winner of the 2025 Canon Female Photojournalist Grant, Donbas: A Generation Scarred by War

Serhiy, Lera and Oleg at an event at Taras Shevchenko high school in May 2017. Serhiy was a soldier, Lera was a student and Oleg was a member of a self-defence unit responsible for patrolling the city of Schastia, Luhansk Oblast, UkrainePhotograph: Marion Péhée/Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan 2026
Two young people sit on a terrace in an otherwise deserted part of town

Hashem Shakeri, Exhibition presented by Le Monde, Iran: The Cycle of War

A street in Tehran on Nowruz, the Persian New Year’s Day, in March 2026Photograph: Hashem Shakeri/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Teenage boys sit on armchairs near a bonfire

Toby Binder, winner of the first Visa d’or Online award supported by the Douglas Kirkland Estate

A group of teenagers gathered at a wasteland in Ravenhill as celebrating communities across Belfast lit traditional Eleventh Night bonfires to mark the start of the Twelfth of July Orange Order celebrations in Belfast, Northern IrelandPhotograph: Toby Binder/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Elizabeth Nkere pegs washing on a line between wooden shelters

Meeri Koutaniemi, winner of the 2026 Canon Female Photojournalist Grant

Elizabeth Nkere hangs laundry in the yard of her home in Kenya. At the age of nine, she fled her family to escape female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. As an adult, she began giving public talks in churches, villages and schools, encouraging other Maasai girls at risk of FGM to seek refuge with her if they were threatened. As more girls came to her for protection, Elizabeth established a shelter home that provided refuge for 40 girls. She trained many of them to become activists themselvesPhotograph: Meeri Koutaniemi/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A boy stands among sheep on a dry and dusty plain

Élise Blanchard, Afghanistan: The Girls Sold to Survive Drought

A boy watches over a herd of sheep in Bala Murghab. There is already a shortage of grass, despite it being the rainy season. The inhabitants are too poor to buy fodder so they end up selling their animals, and some families even have to sell their young daughters into marriagePhotograph: Elise Blanchard/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Aerial photograph of the giant scroll and a parade of protesters

David Guttenfelder, the New York Times, The People of Minneapolis v ICE

Carrying a giant scroll of the Bill of Rights, part of the US Constitution, thousands of protesters march through downtown Minneapolis in January 2026Photograph: David Guttenfelder/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Aerial photograph of dozens of students in yellow on rooftops filing over a bridge

Michael Yamashita, East Meets West – 40 Years Photographing China

Students at the elite private school Guangdong Country Garden return to classrooms after morning exercises on the school’s rooftop in 1995Photograph: Michael Yamashita/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Rows and rows of people sitting on the ground next to donations in colourful boxes

Jean-Luc Moreau Deleris for Le Figaro Magazine, Cambodia: From One War to the Next

AtWat Kandol refugee camp in Banteay Meanchey province, Cambodia, volunteers distribute donations. Certain families, selected by drawing lots, are going to be relocated to 3,000 prefabricated houses built in the town of Sla Kram, 5km awayPhotograph: Jl Morea Deleris/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A shiver of sharks

Laurent Ballesta, Far from the Sky

Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) at a depth of 34 metres in Fakarava Atoll, French PolynesiaPhotograph: Laurent Ballesta/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Chloé sitting at a desk beside a student, pointing at a card with text on it

Jérémy Lempin, The School of Life: Liberty, Equality, Invisibility

Having left school at 12 years of age, 24-year-old Chloé rediscovered a taste for learning, thanks to the association Mots et Merveilles. She then resumed her studies and now works as an educational adviser at Jacques Brel junior high school in Louvroil. Here, she is seen helping a child who is having difficulties at school in December 2023Photograph: Jeremy Lempin/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Three people at the side of a truck try to roll it backwards while three small children push against the radiator

Étienne Montès, Fifteen years of photojournalism, then stop!

Strength in numbers helps move a vehicle in Chuquicamata, Chile in 1987Photograph: Etienne Montes/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A young ultra-Orthodox Jew with a carrier bag stands amid bombed-out buildings looking to the sky

Yoray Liberman for Polka Magazine, War Diary

A young ultra-Orthodox Jew in front of buildings damaged by Iranian missiles in Arad, southern Israel, in March 2026Photograph: Yoray Liberman/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Four pickers put cocaine leaves into large sacks on a hill covered in green plants

Mads Nissen / Politiken / Panos Pictures, Sangre Blanca – The Geography of Cocaine

Ariel Albeiro Muñoz, 19, collecting coca leaves in the hills near Pueblo Nuevo, Colombia. He is paid about twice as much as when he picks coffee and dreams of buying a motorbike. Two-thirds of the world’s cocaine is being produced in ColombiaPhotograph: Mads Nissen/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Lucie in a white wedding dress, standing in church next to a Christmas tree, laughing

Jérôme Gence for Le Figaro Magazine, Virtual marriages in Japan

Lucie, 24, from France, during her symbolic marriage ceremony with Mami, a character from the manga series Rent-a-Girlfriend. She moved to Tokyo a year ago and maintains a virtual relationship with the character. The ceremony, which does not have any legal value, was entirely organised by the company Sun Euro, which specialises in 2D weddingsPhotograph: Jérôme Gence/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A pink, heart-shaped anemone

The 2026 Écologie 360 – Reporters of Hope award, Laurent Ballesta

A 6cm heart-shaped anemone, Sagartia elegans, at a depth of 14 metres. Pointe de l’Espiguette, Gulf of Lion, FrancePhotograph: Laurent Ballesta/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Children sit high in a bombed building watching the football match down below

The Online Visa D’Or award, Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images

Children watch players from Al-Ahli Sports Club and Al-Shati Club in a five-a-side football match arranged to revive the sporting spirit at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, located amid the ruins of buildings destroyed by airstrikes, in April 2026Photograph: Ahmad Hasaballah/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A soldier with a rifle standing by a high metal fence topped with barbed wire. On the other side of the fence are dozens of women and a few men

Philémon Barbier / Hors Format for Le Monde and Le Figaro, winner of the 2026 Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Visa d’or award, Syria: The Dawn of Ashes

A member of the Syrian internal security forces in front of the gates of the Al-Hol camp shortly after taking control of the facility in January 2026Photograph: Philémon Barbier/Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan 2026
The rebels sit at a table with plates of food, eating with their hands

Camille Lepage award, Robin Tutenges / Hors Format

Young rebels eat in a hidden camp in western Myanmar, November 2022. One of the rebels explained: ‘The junta shot at us during demonstrations, they imprisoned thousands of people, they reinstated the death penalty and shut down the whole of society. What choice do we have other than to fight, when they’ve taken everything from us?’Photograph: Robin Tutenges/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A man stands amid the remains of destroyed shelters

The 2026 Visa D’Or France info award for the Best Digital News, Daniel Berehulak / the New York Times, Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank

This picture accompanied an investigative report on settlement activity in the West Bank by Michael D. Shear, Leanne Abraham and Fatima AbdulKarim in the New York Times. Data and interactive mapping added to the strength of the images, which showed the violence of the abuses committed by Israeli settlers backed by the Israeli army and governmentPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A boy watches from behind a truck as thick smoke rises from a building hit by a missile

Khames Alrefi, winner of the 2026 Humanitarian Visa d’or award - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Civilians: The First Victims

A boy watches as a building is hit by a missile in Gaza City, September 2025Photograph: Khames Alrefi/Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan 2026
A row of young people sitting and standing outside a corrugated iron building

Gaël Turine, Broken by Kush – The Thirty-Cents Epidemic

In the poor neighbourhood of Cline Town, two residents watch as a group of kush smokers settle down at the foot of their makeshift home in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January 2026. The police intervene from time to time to make the drug addicts move, but they come back as soon as the officers leave. The residents complain: ‘Life was already difficult, but with all these drug addicts, it’s gotten so much worse.’ Photograph: Gaël Turine/Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan 2026
Men with rifles pointing into the air pose for the camera

Robin Tutenges / Hors Format, Fano’s Kingdom

Members of the Fano militia gather on the heights of the Lasta mountains, one of the centres of the insurgency that is sweeping through the Amhara region of Ethiopia, in May 2025. Down below, federal forces have taken up a defensive position in the historic city of Lalibela, which used to attract thousands of touristsPhotograph: Robin Tutenges/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Sunrise on a road covered with netting

Tyler Hicks / the New York Times, Kostiantynivka, a city in the kill zone

Sunrise reveals a war-ravaged highway lined with netting in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, in January 2026. The netting is intended to stop ‘first person view’ drones before they reach targeted vehicles, but many drones nevertheless penetrate it and destroy their objectivePhotograph: Tyler Hicks/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A group of demonstrators

Abdulmonam Eassa for Le Monde, War in Sudan: a nation caught in a trap

The sign being held by one of the demonstrators reads: ‘There will be no justice until there is justice for women … especially in Darfur.’ On 19 December 2021, in the evening after another day of action against the coup d’état, 13 women were raped by men in uniforms during an electricity blackout in the heart of Khartoum, the capital of SudanPhotograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
The top floors of a high building explode

Mohammad Yassine, Lebanon: One War Too Many

A building is hit by an Israeli airstrike in the Jnah neighbourhood of Beirut in March 2026Photograph: Mohammad Yassine/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Workers wearing respirators, hard hats and plastic suits

Gerd Ludwig, No End in Sight: Chernobyl 40 Years Later

A picture from 2005 of workers wearing respirators and plastic suits pause before drilling holes for support rods inside the sarcophagus that was built to encase Reactor Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the catastrophic disaster. Radiation levels were so high that workers needed to constantly monitor their dosimeters and were only allowed to stay inside for 15 minutes a dayPhotograph: Gerd Ludwig/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
Soldiers stand on top of the wall, looking down at a crowd of people

Raymond Depardon

The Brandenburg Gate, on the morning of 11 November 1989, two days after the Berlin wall opened, in west Berlin, GermanyPhotograph: Raymond Depardon/Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan 2026
A boy sits atop a wall near two burning tyres

Luis Tato – Visa d’Or News prize for news photography, Generation Z protests in Madagascar

A boy watches clashes between protesters and Malagasy security forces amid a strike calling for constitutional reforms and the resignation of the president, Andry Rajoelina, in Antananarivo, in October 2025Photograph: Luis Tato /AFP/Getty Images

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