About - Agence VU'

About

As a French agency of photographers, VU’ affirms and defends every day its original ambition: to reveal, accompany and make discover the singular views of author-photographers.

Trailer of VU’ : chic éclectique
Episode of the documentary series
Révélateurs : portraits d’agences photo
Written and directed by Anaïck Bouhris
Produced by Sancho & CO,
France Télévisions, Museum TV
2020

VU’ is a permanent laboratory for reflection on the evolution of the world and of images, and collaborates with emerging talents as well as with winners of prestigious prizes (World Press Photo, Leica-Oscar Barnack Prize, W. Eugene Smith Award, Henri Cartier-Bresson Prize, Visa d’or, Carmignac Prize for Photojournalism, etc.)

If its documentary filiation is assumed – with a creation in 1986 within the French daily newspaper Libération and the choice of a name in homage to the famous weekly illustrated news magazine of the 30s – VU’ has been claiming for 35 years a freedom of expression territories.

From immediate news to long-term investigations, from formal works to intimate stories, from analog photography to multimedia projects, from the studio to extreme or mundane fields : VU’ presents a plural panorama of a living author’s photography that questions the contemporary world.

Thanks to the diversity of its fields of intervention and the projects it has developed – commissions, distribution of archival images, prints sale, partnerships, etc. – VU’ has been able to forge lasting and inventive links with actors in the media, NGOs, publishing, culture, institutions, businesses and communication.

VU’ continues its commitment to promoting photography to all audiences by organizing meetings and conferences, training courses (VU’ Education) and by selling collector’s prints (Galerie VU’), books, special, limited or rare editions (La Boutique VU’).