Press releases

Colombia’s Simon Bolivar Prize has been awarded to AFP photographer Luis Robayo, the second consecutive year a journalist from the agency has won the country’s top photo prize.

THE JURY OF THE 20TH PRIX BAYEUX-CALVADOS AWARDS FOR WAR CORRESPONDENTS HAS REWARDED TWO PHOTO-REPORTERS AND ONE VIDEO-JOURNALIST FOR THEIR WORK IN SYRIA WITH AFP.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is to launch a Chinese-language fashion application in partnership with Modern Media Holdings Limited (MMH), a leading mainland China publisher, and Relaxnews, the Paris-based news agency focusing on lifestyle and luxury.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency presented the Kate Webb Prize, awarded for courageous frontline reporting, to investigative journalist Stefanus Teguh Edi Pramono at a ceremony in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday evening, September 30.

The international photo exhibition Visa Pour l’Image in the southern French city of Perpignan celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and showcases AFP images from DR Congo, El Salvador, Afghanistan and Bahrain.

Olivier Morin, the AFP photographer who took this exceptional photo, managed to capture the champion Usain Bolt crossing the finish line at the same time as a lightning bolt illuminated the Moscow sky.

International news agency AFP has published a new guide on how its journalists should use social networks including tighter rules on making accounts secure.

Emmanuel Giroud, 46, has been appointed head of the Cairo bureau and will take up the post in August. Hired onto AFP's international desk in 1996, he has worked in Lyon, Ajaccio and Nairobi. Emmanuel also ran the Islamabad bureau for several years and was chief of the Europe desk in Paris prior to this latest appointment.

AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.

AFP will be transmitting photographs from the 100th Tour de France in virtual real time thanks to innovative satellite technology which will allow transmission from motor cycles following the race.   AFP is installing auto-pointing satellite terminals which can transmit at rest or on the move.   They will allow photographers to send their images at any moment and in virtual real time, and will be particularly effective in stretches of the Tour where the phone network is insufficient to carry the agency’s production.