Global news agency AFP has opened a bureau in North Korea, becoming one of only a handful of foreign media organisations to have a permanent presence in the one of the world’s most isolated states.
Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis was honoured Saturday at photojournalism's biggest annual festival, for moving images of the massive arrival of migrants in Greece last year.
From 27 August to 11 September 2016, the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan will showcase Aris Messinis’s coverage of migrants landing on the beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos.
AFP photographer, Ye Aung Thu, wins 2016 Myanmar National Press Award Best Photo of the Year
AFP takes part to the 7th photography festival in Leipzig f/stop, Germany, from June 25th until July 3rd, 2016.
The exhibition will debut in Bangkok (May 3- 29) at the BACC (3-5th floor) before moving on to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.
AFP is participating in the international Women’s Forum held in Mexico City, April 27 to April 28, 2016.
In Mexico, journalists put their lives on the line every day investigating the suffering drug cartels leave in their wake. The traffickers’ ruthlessness, violence and impunity have made Mexico one of the world’s most dangerous countries for newsgatherers.
Colombian photographer Roberto Schmidt, regional photo chief for South Asian, based in New Delhi, was awarded the Gold prize in the Disaster and Disease News – Stories category, for his pictures of the snowfall which fell over the Everest’s basecamp on April 25, 2015.
