It is with a heavy heart and feeling the pain as the photography community awakes to the loss of legendary photojournalism director of Visa Pour l’Image-Perpignan Jean Francois Leroy, a Giant 😦
Jean-Françoise LeRoy famille, sending sympathy and love 🙂 loss and grief are hard, yet we only miss what we cared about and people we loved… we are lucky to have had him, hang in there…
e le PhotoJournalism Ohana and Tribe we are better for having known you JFL, merci à toutes que vous avez fais…
I knew you 40 years and wish it had been lot longer…
Hope they allow you your fav photos and of course cigs in picture heaven…
Lifting my glass high to you tonight, all week and forever as we salute and thank you!
Mon ami bonsoir
Courage e câlins et bisous
Scott Mc Kiernan
August 31, 2026: JEAN-FRANCOIS LEROY, founder and longtime director of the Visa pour l’image photojournalism festival, has passed away at the age of 69, on the opening day of the 38th edition. FILE PHOTO SHOT ON: September 1, 2018, Perpignan, France: The Opening of the 30th Visa Pour L’Image International Festival of Photojournalism at Couvent des Minimes in Perpignan by JEAN-FRANCOIS LEROY, Festival Director. (Image credit: © Michel Clementz/Maxppp via ZUMA Press) 
August 31, 2026: JEAN-FRANCOIS LEROY, founder and longtime director of the Visa pour l’image photojournalism festival, has passed away at the age of 69, on the opening day of the 38th edition. FILE PHOTO SHOT ON: September 1, 2025, Perpignan, France: The Visa pour l’Image founder JEAN-FRANCOIS LEROY with his longtime friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer NICK UT, who presented him with a copy of ”Napalm Girl” during the 2025 edition of the international festival of photojournalism. (Credit Image: © Mark Edward Harris/ZUMA Press Wire) 
August 31, 2026: JEAN-FRANCOIS LEROY, founder and longtime director of the Visa pour l’image photojournalism festival, has passed away at the age of 69, on the opening day of the 38th edition. FILE PHOTO SHOT ON: September 4, 2025: Peripignan, France: Photojournalist, Renee C. Byer, right, speaks with JFL, in hat, at Cafe du Poste after Visa screening. (Credit Image: © Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press Wire)
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