Visa d'or Feature Award

Award winners

• 2023 Ebrahim Noroozi / Associated Press - The World’s Saddest Country and the Worst Country for Women

• 2022 Brent Stirton / Getty Images for National Geographic - Bushmeat and epidemics

• 2021 Jérémy Lempin / Divergence - Docteur Peyo and Mister Hassen

• 2020 Bryan Denton for The New York Times - Drought and Deluge in India.

• 2019 Frédéric Noy - Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying

• 2018 James Oatway - Red Ants

• 2017 Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times - The Philippines - They are Slaughtering Us Like Animals

• 2016 Peter Bauza / Echo Photojournalism - Copacabana Palace, Brazil

• 2015 Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times / Getty Images Reportage - The Ebola Epidemic

• 2014 Guillaume Herbaut / Institute - Ukraine, from Independence Square to the Donbas

• 2013 Noriko Hayashi / Panos Pictures - Réa - Unholy Matrimony in Kyrgyzstan

• 2012 Stephanie Sinclair / VII for National Geographic Magazine - Child Brides

• 2011 Olivier Jobard / Sipa Press for Paris Match - From Zarzis to Lampedusa, an odyssey of hope.

• 2010 Stephanie Sinclair / VII for National Geographic & The New York Times Magazine - Polygamy in America

• 2009 Zalmaï - Afghanistan. Promises and Lies. The human cost of the war on terror

• 2008 Brent Stirton / Reportage by Getty Images for Newsweek & National Geographic Magazine - Virunga National Park, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, July 2007

• 2007 Lizzie Sadin - Juvenile Suffering

• 2006 Todd Heisler / Rocky Mountain News / Polaris / Deadline - Final Salute

• 2005 James Hill / New York Times - Beslan

• 2004 Stephanie Sinclair / Corbis - Auto immolation of women in Afghanistan

• 2003 Philip Blenkinsop / Vu - Laos, the secret war continues

• 2002 Felicia Webb / I.P.G. - Nil by mouth

• 2001 Ad van Denderen / Vu - Schengen, Asylum seekers in Europe

• 2000 Raphaël Gaillarde / Gamma - Ces grands brûlés que l’on sauve !

• 1999 Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum - China Town, New York

• 1998 Zed Nelson - Gun Nation

• 1997 Jillian Edelstein - Apartheid

• 1996 Jean-Paul Goude / 2eBureau - Olympic games

• 1995 Francesco Zizola / Contrasto

• 1994 Tom Stoddart / IPG

• 1993 Dario Mitidieri / Select - Children of Bombay

• 1992 David Turnley / Black Star - Soviet Saga

• 1991 Philippe Bourseiller - Pinatubo's volcano

• 1990 Diane Summers & Eric Valli - Honey's hunters
• 1990 Sebastiao Salgado / Magnum - Cambodia's children