The Best Documentary Photography Projects We Saw at Visa pour l’Image 2016

More than 3,000 photographers and representatives from 280 press agencies representing 50 countries descended onto the medieval town of Perpignan, France last week to meet, show work, look at exhibits, hustle, eat, drink (at the Café La Poste) and celebrate the importance and value of photojournalism at the 28th annual Visa pour l’Image. Visa (as it colloquially called), created and nurtured by Jean-Francois Leroy, a former journalist from Paris, is a festival, a conference, a celebration and a tribal gathering, a Burning Man of sorts for photojournalists.