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Zawya
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Zawya
Canon to celebrate the very best in photojournalism at Visa pour l'Image
This September, Canon ( will be championing the work of photojournalists for the 36 th consecutive year, as part of its decades-long partnership with Visa pour l'Image. During the festival's Pro Week (September 1-6), held in Perpignan in the south of France, Canon will honour the craft of documentary storytelling, awarding two independent project grants, bringing together industry experts to foster meaningful exchange and providing resources for the professional community at the Canon space. As a special highlight this year, Canon has also invited Reuters to showcase a selection of images from the upcoming book 'In the Moment', celebrating 40 years of Reuters photojournalism. Canon to recognise outstanding contributions to photojournalism with two grants For a quarter of a century now, Canon and Visa pour l'Image have awarded at times career-defining project grants to female photojournalists pursuing a long-term documentary project, alongside the opportunity to showcase their work on the acclaimed Visa pour l'Image stage. This year, the international jury, consisting of leading industry professionals, has chosen to award French photojournalist Marion Péhée for her ongoing photographic investigation of young adults in Ukraine with the Canon Female Photojournalist Grant. With the grant money of €8,000, she hopes to reconnect with young Ukrainian teenagers who she met 10 years ago and to continue exploring the complexities of growing into adulthood in a frontline region. Alongside this, Canon together with Visa pour l'Image are pleased to be presenting photojournalist, documentary DP and filmmaker Shiho Fukada with the sixth Canon Video Grant for her short-film documentary project 'Echoes of Little Tokyo', an intimate reflection centred on Fukui Mortuary, a fifth-generation Japanese American family-run funeral home, serving the Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles since 1918. Set in one of America's most endangered historic neighbourhoods, the film reflects on what it means to carry a family tradition forward in a world of ongoing displacement and change. 'Canon has long championed photojournalism, and our partnership with Visa pour l'Image reflects our shared commitment to empowering independent voices and bold storytelling. The chosen projects are each a reflection on community perseverance, shaped either by war, discrimination or gentrification. What stood out to us this year across both projects is the unabated dedication to the subject, the emotional depth captured in the work, and the portrayal of wider generational implications', says Ingrid Masachs, EMEA Marketing Director at Canon. Preserving the key events that shape our world This year, Canon has also invited Reuters to showcase a selection of images from the upcoming book 'In the Moment'. From quiet moments of resilience to defining points in history, this timely publication captures four decades of Reuters news photography and will be released in early October 2025. Printed by Canon and exhibited in the Canon festival space at the Palais des Congrès, this powerful collection highlights some of the most iconic, moving, and historic moments captured by Reuters photographers over the past four decades and offers an unrivaled insight into the workings of an agency that has long been at the centre of global events. Canon support at Visa pour l'Image During the festival in Perpignan, expert technicians from Canon Professional Services (CPS) will be available for accredited photographers, providing a free check-and-clean service of their equipment at the Canon space on the ground floor of the Palais des Congrès. Professional photographers will also have an opportunity to speak to Canon product experts, take out the latest cameras on loan and have an image from their portfolio printed on Canon's fine art printers. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA). Media enquiries, please contact: Canon Central and North Africa Mai Youssef e. APO Group - PR Agency Rania ElRafie e. About Canon Central and North Africa: Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA) ( is a division within Canon Middle East FZ LLC (CME), a subsidiary of Canon Europe. The formation of CCNA in 2016 was a strategic step that aimed to enhance Canon's business within the Africa region - by strengthening Canon's in-country presence and focus. CCNA also demonstrates Canon's commitment to operating closer to its customers and meeting their demands in the rapidly evolving African market. Canon has been represented in the African continent for more than 15 years through distributors and partners that have successfully built a solid customer base in the region. CCNA ensures the provision of high quality, technologically advanced products that meet the requirements of Africa's rapidly evolving marketplace. With over 100 employees, CCNA manages sales and marketing activities across 44 countries in Africa. Canon's corporate philosophy is Kyosei ( – 'living and working together for the common good'. CCNA pursues sustainable business growth, focusing on reducing its own environmental impact and supporting customers to reduce theirs using Canon's products, solutions and services. At Canon, we are pioneers, constantly redefining the world of imaging for the greater good. Through our technology and our spirit of innovation, we push the bounds of what is possible – helping us to see our world in ways we never have before. We help bring creativity to life, one image at a time. Because when we can see our world, we can transform it for the better. For more information: (
Al Bawaba
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Canon to celebrate the very best in photojournalism at Visa pour l'Image
This September, Canon will be championing the work of photojournalists for the 36th consecutive year, as part of its decades-long partnership with Visa pour l'Image. During the festival's Pro Week (September 1-6), held in Perpignan in the south of France, Canon will honour the craft of documentary storytelling, awarding two independent project grants, bringing together industry experts to foster meaningful exchange and providing resources for the professional community at the Canon space. As a special highlight this year, Canon has also invited Reuters to showcase a selection of images from the upcoming book 'In the Moment', celebrating 40 years of Reuters to recognise outstanding contributions to photojournalism with two grantsFor a quarter of a century now, Canon and Visa pour l'Image have awarded at times career-defining project grants to female photojournalists pursuing a long-term documentary project, alongside the opportunity to showcase their work on the acclaimed Visa pour l'Image stage. This year, the international jury, consisting of leading industry professionals, has chosen to award French photojournalist Marion Péhée for her ongoing photographic investigation of young adults in Ukraine with the Canon Female Photojournalist Grant. With the grant money of €8,000, she hopes to reconnect with young Ukrainian teenagers who she met 10 years ago and to continue exploring the complexities of growing into adulthood in a frontline this, Canon together with Visa pour l'Image are pleased to be presenting photojournalist, documentary DP and filmmaker Shiho Fukada with the sixth Canon Video Grant for her short-film documentary project 'Echoes of Little Tokyo', an intimate reflection centred on Fukui Mortuary, a fifth-generation Japanese American family-run funeral home, serving the Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles since 1918. Set in one of America's most endangered historic neighbourhoods, the film reflects on what it means to carry a family tradition forward in a world of ongoing displacement and change.'Canon has long championed photojournalism, and our partnership with Visa pour l'Image reflects our shared commitment to empowering independent voices and bold storytelling. The chosen projects are each a reflection on community perseverance, shaped either by war, discrimination or gentrification. What stood out to us this year across both projects is the unabated dedication to the subject, the emotional depth captured in the work, and the portrayal of wider generational implications', says Ingrid Masachs, EMEA Marketing Director at the key events that shape our worldThis year, Canon has also invited Reuters to showcase a selection of images from the upcoming book 'In the Moment'. From quiet moments of resilience to defining points in history, this timely publication captures four decades of Reuters news photography and will be released in early October by Canon and exhibited in the Canon festival space at the Palais des Congrès, this powerful collection highlights some of the most iconic, moving, and historic moments captured by Reuters photographers over the past four decades and offers an unrivaled insight into the workings of an agency that has long been at the centre of global support at Visa pour l'Image During the festival in Perpignan, expert technicians from Canon Professional Services (CPS) will be available for accredited photographers, providing a free check-and-clean service of their equipment at the Canon space on the ground floor of the Palais des Congrès. Professional photographers will also have an opportunity to speak to Canon product experts, take out the latest cameras on loan and have an image from their portfolio printed on Canon's fine art printers.
The Sun
23-07-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Joel Tomkins pledges to end Catalans' ‘retirement home' tag after becoming coach
JOEL Tomkins has vowed to end Catalans' retirement home reputation as he looks to get them back to the top. And the dual-code England international will take bits from coaches he has worked with in union and league. 2 The 38-year-old has been handed the job of replacing Steve McNamara as boss until the end of 2027. Top of his list is turning around the Perpignan-based Dragons, who have spent big and delivered little. A big part of that is switching the way it will target stars from the NRL. Tomkins said: 'The recruitment model moving forward is changing quite a lot, we're looking at the younger generation. 'It's quite obvious to see there are a lot of guys who've come from the NRL and are at the end of their careers, looking to play the last couple of years in France then retiring on the back of it. 'We're looking at guys who are still on the upwards slope, who are still climbing, who are coming over with a different mentality. 'They'd want to develop a reputation and either go back to the NRL as an NRL player or stay here long-term. 'The big one is we're avoiding those players who are coming to the end of their careers. We're looking at the other end. 'The average age of our top 20 players this year is over 31-years-old – we're looking at bringing that down to 26 or 27. 'You'll see that change over the coming weeks and months.' Tomkins will not have little brother Sam on his staff as he is going into the media after he re-retires at the end of the season. 2 And after working with big name bosses in his playing days, he will use one trait that unites them all into his coaching career. He added: "I've spent a lot of time thinking about that over the last couple of years. 'I was really lucky to work under some of the top coaches in the world – Michael Maguire and Shaun Wane in league, Mark McCall and Stuart Lancaster in union. 'I also worked under Steve McNamara as a player and a coach and the thing the best coaches had was honesty and integrity. 'I'll be honest and upfront with the players. I'll tell them when they're doing well but I won't be afraid of having those awkward conversations when they're not. 'The integrity side means it doesn't matter what someone's being paid or what they've done in their career. You pick your team on who's playing the best rugby – not names or pay packets.'
BBC News
22-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Head coach Tomkins extends Catalans deal until 2027
Catalans Dragons have extended the contract of Joel Tomkins as their head coach until the end of the 2027 former Wigan Warriors and Hull KR forward, 38, ended his playing career with Les Dracs in 2021 having made 25 appearances for the club over two was appointed in July to replace Steve McNamara until the end of the season, and the team have won once in eight games under him."It's an honour to be offered the job at a club with passion, pride, and incredible potential," he told the club website, external. "Over the next two seasons, my focus is simple: build a team that competes with every team in Super League, earns respect, and makes our supporters proud every time they step onto the field."I understand that there is a lot of hard work ahead, but the opportunity to coach this team is one I'm excited about."Catalans CEO Bernard Guasch said: "Joel knows this sport inside out. Just like when he was a player, he never hides and always takes responsibility."We want to change our management approach, start a younger cycle, and I know Joel fits perfectly into that vision. I have full confidence in him to build a team that can aim for the top as early as next season."The Dragons are ninth in the Super League table, nine points off the play-off places.
BBC News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Townsend salutes 'Huwipulotu', the Lions midfield made in Scotland
The first time Huw Jones and Sione Tuipulotu played in a midfield together was December 2022 for Glasgow Warriors against Perpignan - Jones scored and Glasgow first match as an international centre partnership was February 2023 against England - Jones scored and Scotland won. Their first start as a 12-13 combination for the British and Irish Lions was earlier this month against the Waratahs - Jones scored twice and the Lions now Huwipulotu go up another level - a Lions Test. This may not have come about had Garry Ringrose not suffered a concussion, effectively taking Bundee Aki's chances of a start with him, but they're the incumbents now and they're going to take a whole lot of shifting if their telepathic club and country understanding can be brought to the biggest stage of arrived here via very different routes and Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has had a front row seat. Jones - the rise and fall and rise again Jones, 31, landed in Scottish rugby with an almighty bang - power, pace, incredible lines of running, an unerring try-scoring record. Ten in his first 14 Tests - three against Australia, four against England. Unstoppable."When he first came through he would just wriggle out of tackles," says Townsend. "He knew exactly what he needed to do either to get into space or to force that defender to defend him, which opened up the space for someone else."Everything was easy, until it wasn't. He sailed through 2016-17 and 2017-18. A World Cup beckoned in 2019 in Japan. A Lions tour looked likely in 2021. None of it happened. There were chunks of time when he couldn't even get a start for Glasgow, when he wanted out and when he was "at peace" with the end of his international the beginning, they called him 'Humble Huw', a wind-up based on his fantastic confidence. Humble ceased to exist along the way. Injuries came for him, a loss of form hit deeply, an absence of self-belief brought him to the brink. "I'd decided that was it, my international career was over," he defensive game was ripped apart, he got an unfair reputation of being indifferent, only keen on the big games for Scotland rather than coalface nights with opposite was the case, but that was him now. Branded. He wanted to talk to his Glasgow coach, Dave Rennie, but they never clicked. Jones had no confidence around him - nervous and sweating, he tried to articulate his frustrations but couldn't really get the words out right. He fell into a slump that nobody saw coming. Him, least of he missed out on the 2019 World Cup and didn't play for Scotland for close on two years. The comeback was launched in a season with Harlequins, when he started to rebuild."Those experiences would have hurt," says Townsend. "They've made him into the player he is today. You can react in two ways there. You can not work on the things you know you have to work on to get back to the level you're capable of playing, or you can say it's not for me, or it was the coach's fault, or whatever."At times like that, you just hope that players do make it. The feedback we were giving him was that he had to do more on the defensive side of it. He had a nine out of 10 attack and he needed to get his defence up to seven or eight out of 10 and he's done that. He's gone beyond it. We see his defence at the same level as his attack now. He's become a complete player."We've always wanted him to back himself more and get on the ball more because his running lines are world class."That little short ball that he's been getting so far on the Lions tour when he's played with Sione, that's a lot to do with him being in the right place at the right time for Sione to give him that pass when the defence has made one or two decisions and they've drifted out and he's through the hole. It's almost a total package in attack."He reminds me of Alan Tait from my time. He was really good at running those lines and scored a lot of tries. It's a different game now, but they're very similar."Joint second try-scorer with three, third for line breaks and fourth for metres gained, Jones is having a big tour. The biggest examination has yet to come, though. Tuipulotu - the angry child turned calm leader It was last autumn when Tuipulotu sat down for a chat after a Glasgow game at Scotstoun and met the Lions question head-on. No shadow boxing, no hedging his bets. The 28-year-old was all-in. He wanted a spot on the tour so much it almost hurt. And now here he is, a soon-to-be Test story began in Melbourne. The son of an Australian and a Tongan, the grandson of a Scot and an Italian, he speaks emotionally about his family and powerfully about his upbringing."I was an angry kid," he said when asked about his school years. "Angry at what was happening around me, frustrated because I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. My mentor at school, Mr Windle, an English guy from Newcastle, changed my whole outlook. He saved me getting expelled a couple of times and got through to me. I owe a lot to him. I stopped having a chip on my shoulder."Tuipulotu is almost incapable of uttering a dull sentence, whether it's about his beloved Scottish granny, Jaqueline Anne Thomson, a woman who helped in part to raise him, or any other issue you want to throw at was playing club rugby in Japan when the offer came from Glasgow. His mates told him not to go. "Glasgow," they said "is the grimmest city in the UK." Turns out, it was the place that changed his life."When he was in Japan he was mainly playing on the wing," says Townsend. "He was powerful, dynamic, creative. If you've got someone, like Sione, who's carrying hard, but also can put a short pass in or a ball out the back, that's dangerous."When he first came over, he thought he wouldn't be able to do the things that centres do in the northern hemisphere, but he's worked really hard. The personalities of the two of them (Huwipulotu) are a really good mix - the creativity of Sione and the running lines of Huw, that's the reason they've gelled."They're both really good rugby players, so if it was an unstructured situation they just know how to get that ball into space and work off each other."The other way they've combined really well is in defence. They're just aware of what the person inside or outside them is going to do."Tuipulotu has been good on this tour, but you sense there's another level in him, more power, more directness, more influence. He's been saying for the longest time that making trip was the measure of his dreams. The ultimate dream of being a winning Test Lion is now in his gift. Russell completes historic Scottish 10-12-13 Finn Russell has been one of the Lions of the tour so far, arguably the Lion. Control, class, leadership - this has been a long time coming but we're most definitely living in Finn Time now.A Scottish 10-12-13 in a Lions Test has never been seen before and the trio will trouble Australia because in the blue of their country they have an exceptional record against they met was last autumn Tuipulotu scored in a comprehensive Scotland victory. Russell has won four in a row against the Wallabies. Jones has won his past two Tests against them."The communication between Sione and Finn is impressive. Sione shares the load in terms of what we should be doing on the edge attack," adds Townsend. "If you've got someone of Sione's calibre saying, 'This is the play' then Finn will trust that and it'll allow him to be more instinctive."So Finn will have another familiar voice outside him that will be telling him, 'I think there's more space out here, or there's kick space there'. He helps Finn see those pictures."The skill level that Finn brings, it will be hard for defenders to match all three of them up, because Finn's got a very good running game too, if they start to drift towards Sione and Huw."Speaking from Auckland, where Scotland are preparing to play Samoa, Townsend said he was a proud coach; happy that the work he's seen these guys put in for so many years has paid part one was making the tour and part two was making the Test side, the hardest part of all is now upon them.
