Visa Pour l’Image Founder Jean François Leroy Has Died
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"The entire team at Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan and the entire family of Jean-François Leroy are saddened to announce the death, this Monday morning, August 31, of the founder and long-time director of the international photojournalism festival," the festival wrote on its Instagram account. "He supported and championed photojournalists from all over the world," it added. For the first time in 38 years, the 69-year-old former photographer was a…
The journalist and photographer died at 69 years of age from cancer this Monday morning.
By a sad coincidence, the announcement of his death on Monday comes as the 38th edition of the world photography encounters began in Perpignan, of which he was the co-founder.
The historic director of the international photojournalism festival died of cancer on the day of the opening of the 38th edition of the event Jean-François Leroy, founder of the
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