{"id":498,"date":"2008-10-22T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2008-10-22T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T22:15:57","slug":"congratulations-to-visa-pour-limage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/congratulations-to-visa-pour-limage\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Visa Pour L&#8217;Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lucieawards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497\" style=\"border: 0pt none; vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"L\\'equipe de Visa pour l\\'Image recoit a NYC le Lucie Award le 20\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lucieawards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lucieawards.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lucieawards-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MediaStorm would like to extend a special congratulations to Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Leroy and everyone at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visapourlimage.com\/index.do\" target=\"_blank\">Visa Pour L&#8217;Image<\/a>, for winning the Spotlight Award at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucieawards.com\/08\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucie Awards<\/a>.  This year marked the 20th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visapourlimage.com\/index.do\" target=\"_blank\">Visa Pour L&#8217;Image<\/a>, and the impact the festival has had on photojournalism in that time is immeasurable.\u00a0 We would certainly not be able to do the work we&#8217;re doing without people like this in our profession, and we offer our sincere appreciation for all of the efforts Visa has made to ensure that photojournalism has a home. If you ever find yourself in the south of France in early September, it&#8217;s well worth a trip to Perpignan.<\/p>\n<p>Above- Left to Right: Caroline Laurent-Simon, Eliane Laffont, Alain Tournaille, Sylvie Grumbach, Jean-Francois Leroy (with the award), Christine Terneau, Lucas Menget, Claire Baudean, Cedric Kerviche, Valerie Bourgeois, and Delphine Lelu.  Photo by JP Laffont.<\/p>\n<p>There were many other notable award winners, to see a full list, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucieawards.com\/08\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucie Award<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucieawards.com\/08\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">s<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaStorm would like to extend a special congratulations to Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Leroy and everyone at Visa Pour L&#8217;Image, for winning the Spotlight Award at this year&#8217;s Lucie Awards. This year marked the 20th anniversary of Visa Pour L&#8217;Image, and the impact the festival has had on photojournalism in that time is immeasurable.\u00a0 We would certainly not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[374,372,380,377,379,373,382,376,378,371,384,383,375,381,370],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","tag-alain-tournaille","tag-caroline-laurent-simon","tag-cedric-kerviche","tag-christine-terneau","tag-claire-baudean","tag-eliane-laffont","tag-et-delphine-lelu","tag-jean-francois-leroy-et-la-recompense","tag-lucas-menget","tag-lucie-awards","tag-perpignan","tag-press-photography","tag-sylvie-grumbach","tag-valerie-bourgeois","tag-visa-pour-limage","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}