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The Yves Rocher Foundation
Photography Award finances
autochtones (Sud Soudan,
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Since its inception in 1991, the Yves Rocher Foundation - Institut de France
has been leading practical initiatives revolving around plant biodiversity and
its relations with humankind.
Since photography provides a living testimony of the planet and creates
a space for liberty and emotion, the Foundation supports photographers
committed to the issues. Similarly, the Foundation is associated with major
photography events, such as the La Gacilly Photography Festival (Festival
Photo de La Gacilly).
In 2015, the Yves Rocher Foundation created this photography award in
partnership with the “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan” International Festival
of Photojournalism, the key rendezvous for international professionals in
photojournalism and the press.
An endowment worth €8,000, the Yves Rocher Foundation Photography
Award is granted to a professional photographer who wishes to engage in
journalistic work on environmental issues, relations between humanity and
the planet, or the major challenges facing sustainable development.
the journalistic project
of a professional photographer
appointed every year
by experts’ jury.
Please consult: w
ww.fondation-yves-rocher.org
(under the Photo, People & Nature heading)
for additional information.
The jury is composed of photographic and environmental experts.
The winner was chosen by a jury presided over by Jacques Rocher and composed of wellknown figures from the worlds of photography, the environment and the media.
The jury took into consideration both the quality of the photographic work and the relevance of
the projects proposed by the candidates.
• Daphne Angles: Picture Editor - «New York Times Paris».
• Andreina de Bei: Deputy Picture Editor - «Sciences & Avenir».
• Pierre de Vallombreuse: Photographer.
• Cyril Drouhet: Picture Editor - «Figaro Magazine».
• Pierre Henri Gouyon: French biologist specialising in evolutionary science and particularly in
ecology. Professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
• Delphine Lelu: «Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan».
• Jacques Rocher: Honorary President of the Yves Rocher Foundation - Institut de France.
An original, novel approach involving two renowned French
photography festivals.
The call for applications was launched in late January and closed on May 30th last.
In late June 2015, the jury selected the recipient of the award from 64 applications of the
highest quality received from around the world.
1 st phase - September 2015:
The winner was announced during an event at the “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan”, International
Festival of Photojournalism.
2nd phase - June 2016:
An exhibition of the photo-essay taken by the winner due to be held at the La Gacilly Photography
Festival.
3rd phase - september 2016:
Screening of the award winner’s photo-essay during the “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan” festival.
2015
AWARD WINNER
Lianne MILTON
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on Southeast Asia and Latin America, exploring
subjects such as food insecurity and violence in
Guatemala, drug addiction, and the impact of
river dams on ethnic minorities living down-river
in Cambodia.
Lianne Milton is an American photojournalist
based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her work reflects the impact of policies on
individuals and their environments in the
countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America, as
well as in the United States. She is a member of
the Panos Pictures agency.
Lianne began her freelance career in 2009 with
a project denouncing the rise of sharia law in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
From 2009-2012, her personal work focussed
In January 2013, she left San Francisco for Brazil
equipped with stills cameras, video cameras and
surfboards to work on a series of photo-essays
highlighting the country’s changing social and
environmental landscape, as well as exploring its
coastal environment.
Lianne’s work is regularly published in the
international press, including CNN, the Guardian
of London, The Sunday Times of London, the
Washington Post, Mother Jones Magazine, the
New York Times, Newsweek etc. She has also
worked for numerous NGOs.
Lianne currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, the city
that reveres the ocean. When she is not taking
photographs, look no further than the beach she’s gone surfing!
HER PROJECT
© Lianne Milton - Picture from Guatemala photos essay.
The Brazilian hinterland
In this semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil known
as the Sertão, farmers grow only enough food
to feed their families, (on subsistence farms)
and have long lived with water shortages and
erratic rainfall. Since 2013, the drought has
been the worst in 50 years, killing livestock and
stunting harvests. The land has been turned
into a salt desert, a consequence of this gradual
desertification.
Brazil is a country where water resources are
abundant (possessing 12% of the world’s fresh
water). But the southern hemisphere’s largest
country is facing a historic lack of water in its
prosperous cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro;
the fate of the Sertão is just the visible tip of the
iceberg. Brazil’s environmental crisis is most
acute in this hinterland, and extremely alarming
for the future.
This desolate, dusty and hot region covering nine
states is located between the northeast coast and
the Amazonian rainforest to the west. Most of
the vegetation has greatly degenerated, which
is the result of deforestation for cattle ranching.
The scene of the greatest concentration of
rural poverty in Latin America, according to the
International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD), 35% of people live in extreme poverty.
Lianne Milton’s project will specifically explore the
subsistence farming communities living in the heart
of the Sertão, near the Sobradinho Reservoir where
water levels dropped by 18% in 2014. The lake lies
along the São Francisco River, the longest and most
important river in Brazil.
Her photographic work will
investigate the following
questions:
How does climate change
impact on subsistence farmers
in the Sertão? What are
subsistence farmers doing to
adapt to climate change? How
does the drought in the Sertão
dramatically illustrate the ways
a society deals with climate
change?
WORK
• Jan. 2009 - current: Freelance photographer
• Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2009: Napa Valley Register, Napa, CA. Staff
news photographer for news, features, & documentary
projects
• Nov. 2004 - Dec. 2005: Orange County Register, Anaheim,
CA. Staff news photographer for news, features &
documentary projects
PUBLICATIONS
© Lianne Milton
AARP, ActionAid, Christian Science Monitor Magazine, CNN,
Die Zeit, Ford Foundation, Guardian of London, ESPN
Magazine, L’Espresso Magazine, Mother Jones, National
Geographic Proof, Marie Claire, National Public Radio,
New York Times, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, New Yorker,
Observer Sunday Magazine, Open Society Foundation, Smile
Train, The Sunday Times, UNICEF, UN Women, US News &
World Report, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
AWARDS
2013 American Photography (AP-AI) Latin America 2013
Los Diez Exhibit -La Vida No Vale Nada; 2013 PDN Photo
Annual -Documentary/Photojournalism -La Vida No Vale
Nada; 2013 Fotovisura Grant HM -La Vida No Vale Nada;
2012 American Photography (AP-AI) Latin America -La
Vida No Vale Nada; 2010 National Journalism Award for
Photography by Asian American Journalist Association -Five
Years Later: A New Hope; 2010 Fotovisura Grant Finalist -A
Future Divided
Pictures from Guatemala photos essay.
© Lianne Milton
ReFeRENCES
• Keith Jenkins, Picture Editor / National Geographic /
kjenkins@ngs.org
• Ed Kashi, Freelance Photojournalist / VII Photo Agency /
973.746.9096 / ed@edkashi.com
• Darcy Padilla, Freelance Photojournalist / Agence Vu /
415-812-4536 or darcy@darcypadilla.com
www.liannemiltonphotography.com
2015
For over 25 years, during the first two weeks of September, the
“Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan” festival reviews the news from the
past year with over 30 free exhibitions and screening events.
“Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan” is currently the key rendezvous for
top international professionals in photojournalism and the press.
Over 2,800 professionals from around the world attend the event
annually.
www.visapourlimage.com
In order to leave a positive footprint, the Yves Rocher Foundation - a
pioneer of humanist and universal ecology - is actively committed
to biodiversity.
We firmly believe that individuals can change the world.
The role of the Yves Rocher Foundation is to take actions for
biodiversity:
• by assisting women who have created active communities and who
are dedicated to this cause
• by planting trees-which are symbolic of putting down roots-around
the world
• by preserving plant species, which are unique and important for
everyone
• by capturing moments in time through the enlightening vision of
photographers.
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Press contact Yves Rocher Foundation: F
rançoise Stephan-Heintzé - Tel: +33 (0) 1 41 08 52 36 - francoise.stephan-heintze@yrnet.com
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Press contact Visa pour l’image: 2e Bureau - Tel: +33 (0) 1 42 33 93 18 - visapourlimage@2e-bureau.com
September 2015 - Photo Award
Photo credit : © Pierre de Vallombreuse - Lianne Milton - Printed on PEFC certified paper. Don’t throw it on public highway.
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