Rio 2014 : Favela children capture unique view of football in AFP photo project
AFP HAS GIVEN THE CHILDREN OF THE RIO FAVELA CIDADE DE DEUS (“CITY OF GOD”) A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THEIR PASSION FOR FOOTBALL THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS.
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AFP HAS GIVEN THE CHILDREN OF THE RIO FAVELA CIDADE DE DEUS (“CITY OF GOD”) A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THEIR PASSION FOR FOOTBALL THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS.
AFP has mobilised more than 180 staff to cover the Football World Cup in Brazil – the largest ever deployment of human and technical resources in the agency’s history.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) and its longtime Indonesian partner, the Antara news agency, have launched a major photo exhibition in Jakarta on the history and highlights of the football World Cup in time for the 2014 championship in Brazil.
The Newseum, in partnership with AFP, will display the very best of the global news agency’s photo coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
AFP Dhaka photographer Munir uz Zaman has been honoured at an Asian media awards ceremony for a "heart-wrenching" series of images of penniless Rohingya refugees striving in vain to flee communal bloodshed in Myanmar.
Yasuyoshi Chiba
AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba was awarded first prize in the “People in the News” category of the prestigious World Press Photo 2012 awards for his series of photographs on the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. Yasuyoshi Chiba was working in Nairobi in March 2011 when he was called to Japan to cover the catastrophe in his native country.
Shanghai, China | March 28-29