This week on Friday Round Up the winners from this year's Visa Pour l'Image Awards plus an eclectic selection of exhibitions on in Melbourne and Sydney that show the range of images and the ingenuity of artists to push limitations inside the pursuit of creativity. Have a exceptional weekend anywhere you are.
Visa pour l?Picture - Part Two
A host of prizes were awarded under the Visa banner once more this yr. Here are the highlights:
Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2013
Mary Calvert, The War Within: Sexual Violence in the US Military. This task will characteristic at next yr's Festival and my interview with Mary can be posted right here in the coming weeks.
News Award supported via Paris Match
Laurent Van Der Stockt, Reportage by means of Getty Images, for his insurance of the warfare in Syria for Le Monde
Feature Award supported by Languedoc-Roussillon Region
Noriko Hayashi, Panos Pictures, for Unholy Matrimony in Kyrgyzstan, exposing the plight of the fantastic range of young women who are abducted and compelled into marriage.
ICRC Humanitarian Award supported by SANOFI ESPOIR Foundation
Sebastiano Tomada, Sipa Press, for his reportage at the battle in Syria with specific recognition on the injured and the medics.
Lifetime Achievement supported by Le Figaro magazine
Don McCullin, Contact Press pictures
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
Launched in 2005, the goal of the Getty grants program is to enable photographers to bring attention to significant social and cultural issues, as well as to take new and inspiring strides in creative work. This year's recipients are:
Matt Eich - Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town
Samuel James, Cosmos, Oil in Nigeria 
Marco Gualazzini, LUZphoto, M23-Kivu, DRC: a region below siege 
Tomas Van Houtryve, VII, North Korea
Eugene Richards, War is Personal
ANI-PIXPALACE Award
Paolo Marchetti, Cit? Soleil, Ha?Ti
Visa pour l'photo keeps till 15 September in Perpignan, France.
Australia
Exhibition:
Barat Ali Batoor - The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Barat Ali Batoor is a younger Afghani refugee who risked his life when he climbed onboard a rickety wooden boat in Indonesia late ultimate yr certain for Australia. He fled his hometown after the Washington Post published his image essayThe Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, which exposes the practice of men who enslave young boys to be their "better halves". Drawing the ire of these in powerful positions, it changed into no longer safe for Batoor to stay in Kabul.
Batoor is one of the fortunate few. He survived the ordeal at sea, managed to live out of the clutches of the Indonesian jail gadget and eventually changed into granted asylum in Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in May ready to begin his new lifestyles, but ever aware of those he needed to go away at the back of.
His mentor, legendary photojournalist Tim Page has curated Batoor?S first Sydney exhibition.
All photographs (C) Barat Ali Batoor
Until 5 October
10 x 8 Gallery
Level five/ fifty six-60 Foster St, Surry Hills (Sydney)
Exhibition:
Andreas Smetana ? Passion and Passion
Smetana's Passion and Passion: A obvious view of man explores "the duality of ardour via longing and suffering, and the urge for food of desire for existence". This is Smetana's first exhibition for 14 years and the works were shot in numerous locations around Australia over a 12 month period.
All photos (C) Andreas Smetana
Until 29 September
Black Eye Gallery
3/138 Darlinghurst Road,
Darlinghurst (Sydney)
Exhibition:
Michael Corridore - Tangents
Accomplished photomedia artist Michael Corridore says his series Tangents is "about re-deciphering what we see from differing views and synthesizing those components of our observations and memory statistics into a two-dimensional photograph". Using diffused colorings, monochromatic factors and bursts of shiny color, Corridore's collection is beautiful in its abstraction.
All pics (C) Michael Corridore
Exhibition:
Paul Blackmore ? New Beirut
Another presented Australian photographer Paul Blackmore will exhibit a small choice of photographs from his series New Beirut, which depicts a metropolis and its humans in birthday party. This series gives you a new take on Beirut transferring the perception of a metropolis torn by using civil war to one of seaside parties and glamour.
Exhibition:
Heidi Romano ? Frozen Water
This series of pictures is an exploration of ?Summary, frozen landscapes? That Romano has discovered in trays and cubes of ice, a simple concept that has translated into a collection of images that conjure thoughts of polar caps, icebergs and frozen habitats.
Tangents, New Beirut and Frozen Water are all displaying until 5 October
Edmund Pearce Gallery
Level 2, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
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