ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or Award – International Committee of the Red Cross

The ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or award is granted in recognition of the work of a professional photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue related to forced migration in situations of armed conflict.

The winner of this year’s award, with prize money of €8,000 funded by the ICRC, is Federico Rios Escobar for his report on migrants crossing the Darién Gap, the link between South and Central America on the Colombia-Panama border, as they travel north hoping to reach the United States.

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Award winners
  • 2023 Federico Rios Escobar
  • 2022 Sameer Al-Doumy
  • 2021 Antoine Agoudjian
  • 2020 Alfredo Bosco
  • 2019 Abdulmonam Eassa
  • 2018 Véronique de Viguerie
  • 2017 Angela Ponce Romero
  • 2016 Juan Arredondo
  • 2015 Diana Zeneb Alhindawi
  • 2014 William Daniels
  • 2013 Sebastiano Tomada
  • 2012 Mani
  • 2011 Catalina Martin-Chico