A selection of some of the best exhibited work from Visa Pour l’Image, the annual festival of photojournalism in Perpignan in the south of France

Matt Fidler

Main image: A mosque’s minaret is visible through a ripped poster of Bashar al-Assad at the former regime’s state security headquarters in Damascus, Syria, January 2025. Photograph: Salwan Georges/Washington Post/Visa Pour L’Image

Mon 1 Sep 2025 08.00 CEST

We have no escape – Saher Alghorra, winner of the 2025 humanitarian Visa d’Or award