For the twenty-ninth edition of Visa pour l’image, Anna-Alix Koffi launched a newspaper titled Woman Paper Visa, that offers a look at a selection of female photo-reporters, journalists and photo editors. Cloé Kerhoas (Le Journal agency, Istanbul) has chosen the new front-line from the news and documentary world of the Moddle East. A tribute to the photographer Stanley Greene by the women who shared his professional life, has been put together by Clément Saccimani (Director of the Noor agency). If women are not represented in this profession, African women are even less so: presentations of the work of Rahima Gambo and Malin Fezehai try to correct this impression. Unpublished pictures by Dominique Issermann who, with Serge July, witnessed the independence of Mozambique in 1975, and a portrait of Sylvie Grumbach by Marie Sumalia (photo editor at Le Monde). “What use is a publication devoted to women?”, demands Anna-Alix Koffi. “Practically, none”. A cosmetic gesture. As a double minority, it has to be shown, demonstrated with perseverance. To act as a peaceful but pugnacious force until this kind of action is unnecessary. What use are cosmetics to a woman police officer? Practically, none?”
