Visa d'or Feature Award

sponsored by the Région of Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée

For the seventeenth time, the Région of Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée will fund the prize of €8,000 for the Visa d’or Feature Award winner.

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