AFP journalist Aris Messinis wins the Photography Prize at the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for War Correspondents
The jury of the 19th prix Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents has rewarded Aris Messinis, photoreporter at Agence France-Presse.
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The jury of the 19th prix Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents has rewarded Aris Messinis, photoreporter at Agence France-Presse.
AFP, as it does every year, is attending the Visa pour l’Image photo festival in Perpignan from September 1 to 16. This year no less than three of the 27 exhibitions on hand are devoted to AFP pictures. You can also meet us at the Palais des Congrès, stall 17, during the festival’s professional week from September 3 to 9. A thumbnail presentation of our pictures Pedro Ugarte et Ed Jones North Korea
Agence France-Presse on Thursday was awarded top prize for its high-quality reporting on Asia’s fast-evolving environmental challenges.
AFP's photo coverage of the 2012 London Olympics will be on display at the Newseum for the duration of the event.
During the London Olympic Games, AFP will be showing the best of its photo output at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondants' Club (FCC).
Sports, a strategic priority, are being featured at AFP all summer. Beginning long before the start of the events, AFP has been on the ground since London was named in 2005 to hold this year’s Olympic Games to monitor preparations. AFP is sending 180 journalists to the Olympics in the British capital to provide comprehensive coverage of all the action and behind-the-scenes news.
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Agence France-Presse and Taiwan's Central News Agency on Wednesday opened a photo exhibition in Taipei 101, the world's second-tallest building, featuring more than a century of Olympic history. The 165 photos on display -- including 120 from AFP's vast archive -- stretch from the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 to the Beijing event in 2008.
Jay Directo is 3rd in the « International News » category for his picture of children searching for objects to sell in Manila in August 2011.

Manpreet Romana receives the honorable mention in the « International News » category for the picture of this child crying during his father’s funeral, who died when their apartment building collapsed in New Dehli on November 15th, 2010.
Agence France-Presse is a proud partner of the first ever "Sportfolio", the Narbonne sports photography festival on 2-10 June. AFP is taking part this year in the Sportfolio festival, an international event launched this year with nearly 100 sport images selected both for their artistic qualities and for the emotion they convey.