VISA POUR L'IMAGE FESTIVAL, PERPIGNAN, FRANCE

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Evan Nisselson, CEO/Founder, presented new members:

COLLECTIVES:
4SEE PHOTO (Portugal)
VERAS IMAGES (U.S.)

  PHOTOGRAPHER:
STEPHEN ALVAREZ, National Geographic (U.S.)

At this year's Visa Pour L'Image festival, 4SEE, Veras, and Stephen Alvarez presented their images and discussed how Digital Railroad minimizes their production costs and enables them to efficiently distribute their images around the world.

4SEE Photo: 4SEE is a Portuguese agency based in Lisbon with a vision for building stories and essays about social and human matters. It was founded by four photographers with the goal of promoting excellence in photojournalism created by both experienced and promising talents. Photographers: Jordi Burch, Jose Carlos Carvalho, Luiz Carvalho, Leonel de Castro, Luis Filipe Catarino, Joao Paulo Fernandes, Antonio Pedro Ferreira, Adriano Miranda, Marco Pereira and Sara Wong, Luis Ramos, Joao Carlos Santos, Rui Duarte Silva, Jorge Simao, and Jose Ventura. DRR.NET/4seephoto

Veras Images: Veras is a collective of emerging international photographers based in New York that provides coverage of compelling feature stories, under-reported topics, and significant social trends. Veras is dedicated to bringing a creative and inventive vision to documentary photography. Photographers: Capucine Bailly, Arantxa Cedillo, Willie Davis, Jessica Dimmock, Paul Fittipaldi, Neil Harris, HeuiChul Kim, Julie Kubal, Lauren Lancaster, RJ Mickelson, Shizuka Minami, Eri Oishi, Joao Pina, Kelly Shimoda, Shana Wittenwyler. DRR.NET/veras

Stephen Alvarez: National Geographic Photographer Stephen Alvarez produces stories about exploration, endangered places, indigenous cultures and archeology. For the past four years, Stephen was in northern Uganda and southern Sudan to document the cycle of violence.  Images from Stephen’s Maya Underworld story from National Geographic will be on exhibit August 27th through September 10th at Visa pour l’Image. DRR.NET/alvarezphotography


Evan Nisselson: Evan Nisselson is a photographer and founder/CEO of Digital Railroad, Inc., a software company that is creating application services to help solve critical technical problems for creative professionals. He has worked in the photography industry for fifteen years. Evan has been a photo editor, agent, photo buyer, software developer, lecturer, moderator, contest judge, a published photographer and a digital-imaging consultant. DRR.NET/nisselson