Abbas Attar, better known by his mononym Abbas, was an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra, Vietnam and South Africa in the 1970s, and for his extensive essays on religions in later years. He was a member of Sipa Press from 1971 to 1973, a member of Gamma from 1974 to 1980, and joined Magnum Photos in 1981.
Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House.
The International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes or International Documentary Festival FIPADOC, founded in 1987 by Michel Mitrani (1930-1996), was first held in Cannes in October 1987., In 2019, the FIPA became FIPADOC,,, an international festival specializing in non-fiction films for all screens and all formats.
Wilfrid Estève is a French photojournalist and portraitist. Since 1995, his work has appeared in publications including ELLE, Libération, Le Monde, Geo France, Marie-Claire, National Geographic France, Paris Match and VSD, and was awarded a "special mention" award in the 2005 Prix Nadar competition, along with other co-authors, for his work 'Photojournalism at the crossroads'.
Christophe de Ponfilly was a French journalist, film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. He was married to Florence Dauchez.
Rémi Ochlik was a French photojournalist who was known for his photographs of war and conflict in Haiti and the Arab Spring revolutions. Ochlik died in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs during the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising along with veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin.
Munem Wasif is a photographer from Bangladesh.
Jean-Francois Campos is a French photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums, such as the International Center of Photography in New York as well as the Centre national de la photographie in Paris. After an esteemed career as an Agence Vu photojournalist, beginning in Berlin during the fall of the Berlin wall, and a long term collaboration with the French daily newspaper Libération, Jean-Francois Campos turned to fashion and portrait photography in 2006. Jean-Francois has since created numerous award-winning campaigns for clients such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Shiseido, Celine, Van Cleef & Arpels, and LVMH; and has directed commercials for the likes of Secours Populaire, Mobalpa, and Links of London. Jean-François has collaborated to many international publications such as ELLE Magazine, Town & Country Magazine, Le Monde, and V Magazine.
Tomas van Houtryve is a Belgian visual artist, director and cinematographer working mainly with photography and video. He is an Emeritus member of the VII Photo Agency, and a Contributing Artist for Harper's Magazine.
Jean-Pierre Laffont is a French-American photojournalist born in Algeria, and based in New York City, USA. He was the founding member of both Gamma USA and Sygma, which then became one of the largest and most influential photography agencies in the world. Sygma was acquired by the Corbis Corporation in 1999.
Maxim Dondyuk is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, who combines photography, video, text, and archival material in his work. He explores issues of history, memory, conflicts, and their consequences.
Sebastián Liste is a documentary photographer and sociologist whose work is focused in documenting the profound cultural changes and contemporary issues in Latin America and the Mediterranean area. He is a member of NOOR photo agency, a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands.
Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.
Jean-Paul Delfino is a French writer and screenwriter.
François Porcile is a French film director, essayist, film historian and musicologist.
Bénédicte Kurzen, is a French photographer and photojournalist. She is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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 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.
Yan Morvan is a French photographer, journalist, photojournalist and author particularly recognized for his war photography and images of underground communities.
Roger Dadoun was a French philosopher, psychoanalyst, translator, and art critic. He was a professor of comparative literature at Paris Diderot University.
Fatima Al-Zahra'a Shbair is a Palestinian photojournalist based in Gaza City, Palestine. She won a Prix de la Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik award by Visa pour l'image in 2021 and a World Press Photo award in 2022.
