Awards

Jeff Pachoud won 1st prize in the Story Sports category for his series on the 2022 Tour de France for women.

Oli Scarff received two prizes in two differents categories: 

Second prize in the Single Sports category 

Scarff was rewarded for his photo of the rescue of American swimmer Anita Alvarez by her coach Andrea Fuentes during an incident at the artistic and synchronised swimming final of the World Swimming Championships at the Alfréd Hajós National Pool in Budapest (Hungary) on 22 June 2022. In 2023, this photo had already won a prize at the  AIPS Sport Media Awards 2022.

Second prize in the Single Portrait category

Brothers Allan (right), aged 4, and Dan (left), aged 7, attend the first day of the annual Appleby Horse Fair in Appleby-in-Westmorland, north-west England, on 9 June 2022. This annual event attracts thousands of travellers from all over the UK to buy and sell horses.

The Istanbul Photo Awards is an international news photography competition organised by Anadolu Agency that "aims to contribute to the sphere of news photography and offers a perspective shaped by the region's unique position at the centre of diverse cultures". A total of 1,971 photographers took part in the 2023 edition, with over 21,000 images submitted.

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Jeff Pachoud has been a reporterand photographer at AFP for 15 years. Based in Lyon, he covers all national and international news stories.  

In particular, he covers all the major alpine competitions, the Olympic Games and the Tour de France. He has won numerous international awards, including a World Press photo as well as the Grand Prix Paris Sport Photo 2021 and first prize at the Winter Sport Photo Awards.

Oli Scarff is a photographer for Agence France-Presse based near Manchester, UK, covering news, sports and features across the Midlands, North of England, and beyond. 

Following four years studying Mathematics at Warwick University, he began his photographic career with SWNS Agency in Bristol, taking pictures for national newspapers and magazines. After 3 years of interesting and eclectic assignments he accepted a contract with the Daily Telegraph in London. 
A year later, he joined Getty Images as one of their 6 UK staff news photographers. Working for Getty from 2008 to 2014, he covered numerous assignments across Europe and Africa as well as North and South America. 
In late 2014, he moved out of London to begin working for AFP. His images have appeared on the fronts of publications around the world, including The New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Time and Newsweek. 

More recently, he has been invited to contribute as a guest lecturer on the Photography BA course at Oxford Brookes University.