Photographer Siegfried Modola wins Visa d'or News prize for work on Myanmar
Italian-British photographer Siegfried Modola has won the top Visa d’or award at the International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan in southern France for his work on the Karen rebellion against Myanmar's junta.
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Siegfried Modola thanked "the people who allowed us to tell their stories" in his photo report entitled Inside Myanmar's Armed uprising, which took two years to complete and was published by the Canadian daily newspaper Globe & Mail in 2022.
The other nominees for the Visa d'or news award were Michael Bunel (Le Pictorium) for his photo series Search, Rescue, Protect, about the work of NGOs rescuing people in exile crossing the Mediterranean, and Tyler Hicks (The New York Times) for Bakhmout, a city at war, in Ukraine.
In 2021, Myanmar was already at the heart of the Visa d'or News, which for the first time rewarded a photographer who remained anonymous for security reasons, for his images of the "Spring Revolution" in his country.
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