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Japan photographer receives prestigious award in France

PERPIGNAN, France - Kosuke Okahara (L), a Japanese photographer living in Paris, receives the Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Association Award in Perpignan, France, on Sept. 4, 2014, in recognition of his series of pictures on drug violence in Colombia.

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Photographer Okahara gets prestigious French award

PERPIGNAN, France - Undated photo shows Kosuke Okahara, who received the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Award on Sept. 4, 2014, in recognition of his series of pictures on the life of people in a Colombian region infamous for narcotics production.

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Photographer awarded for revealing Kyrgyz bride kidnappings

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 13, 2013, in Tokyo shows Noriko Hayashi, a photojournalist who has become the first Japanese to win the top honor called the Visa d'or feature award at the Visa pour l'Image Festival in Perpignan, southern France, for a series of photos depicting the kidnapping of a woman for a forced marriage.

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Japan photographer wins award

PERPIGNAN, France - The award-winning pictures taken by Japanese photographer Noriko Hayashi of a bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. Hayashi won the top award for feature reporting at an international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, southern France, on Sept. 6, 2013. The 29-year-old freelancer won the Visa d'or Feature Award at Visa pour l'image for her series of photographs of the kidnapping of a young woman for forced marriage.

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Japan photographer wins award

PERPIGNAN, France - Japanese photographer Noriko Hayashi wins the top award for feature reporting at an annual international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, southern France, on Sept. 6, 2013. The 29-year-old freelancer won the Visa d'or Feature Award at Visa pour l'image for her series of photographs of a bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, in which a man kidnapped a young woman for forced marriage.

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Photojournalism exhibition in France

PERPIGNAN, France - Visitors look at pictures of Japan's March earthquake and tsunami disaster on Aug. 27, 2011 at Visa pour l'Image, a major international photojournalism festival, in Perpignan, southern France, which opened the same day. A special exhibition featuring 50 Japanese disaster portraits, together with about 30 other exhibitions, is open to the public through Sep. 11. Awards for categories including news reporting and feature reporting will be announced in early September.