Association Visa pour l'image

At the end of the eighties, the Pyrénées-Orientales Institutionals under the impulse of Mr Paul ALDUY senator-mayor, and thanks to Mr Jacques COLOMINES dynamism, a member of the Perpignan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, were setted up an event, in order to show the patrimony of the area. Every other year, Paris-Match won in Paris the Great Award of Photojournalism.

The perfect cohesion beetwen the partners in Perpignan persuaded the Filipacchi Group, Paris-Match, and Photo magazine to participate in this thrilling adventure : the creation and the organization, in september 1989, of the International Great Report Festival.

An Association, with specific french law 1901, including all the institutions was created in 1989. Right away the great photojournalism festival supported by Paris-Match and Photo ( Filipacchi Group managed by Roger Thérond) was a great success. Then the Ministry for Culture, Kodak, Canon, and the local partners supported the festival.

In 1997 a new structure was set up. The established administration was not really suitable for a such great event, and its functioning. The International Festival of Photojournalism is organized under the initiative of the Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan Association, which is the prime contractor. The contracting authority is the Society Images-Evidence, subsidiary of Hachette-Filipacchi Médias Group.

The Association included the Municipality of Perpignan, The Country Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon , the Perpignan Chamber of crafts, the Chamber of Agriculture and the Employers Association 66, and also some individual entities es-quality.