| | | | | | | | | Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, February 29, 2024. Female journalists working in the office of a women-focused media. Since the Taliban came to power in August 2021, the Afghan media landscape has been decimated. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | 14TH EDITION CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD | | | | NO WOMAN’S LAND | | | | | | An Intimate Look into the Battle for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
A COLLABORATIVE REPORT BY MÉLISSA CORNET AND KIANA HAYERI »
Exhibition in Paris from October 25 - November 18, 2024 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, February 3, 2024. Girls playing in the snow in western Kabul behind an apartment block, off the main road. Since the takeover, women and girls' rights to move without a male chaperon or to go to parks have been curtailed, and very few opportunities to find joy in their daily lives remain. A snowstorm in a quiet neighbourhood of Kabul western suburb offered such a chance for an hour of playing together. Even then, an eye is always kept on the surroundings, looking for a sign of a Taliban patrol. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | | The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award focuses on the conditions faced by women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. The award was granted to a reporting project by Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and French researcher Mélissa Cornet, produced with the support of the Fondation Carmignac.
From January to June 2024, Kiana and Mélissa travelled to seven provinces in Afghanistan* to investigate the conditions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban, which, according to Amnesty International’s research, could constitute a possible crime against humanity of gender-based persecution. They met with more than 100 women and girls, barred from going to school, forced to stay at home, women journalists and activists continuing to fight for their rights, mothers watching with horror as history repeats itself for their daughters, as well as LGBTQI+ individuals. They documented how the Taliban, allowed by a deeply patriarchal society, have systematically erased women from society, taking away their most basic rights: to go to school, to university, to work, to travel, to dress as they wish, to go to public baths, to parks, or even to the beauty salon. In late August 2024, the Taliban regime further tightened its control by enacting a new law requiring women to cover their faces with a mask and prohibiting them from having their voices heard in public or at home, including singing or reading aloud. | | | | | | | | | | Jalal Abad, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, February 12, 2024. A family, recently deported out of Pakistan has temporarily settled in suburban neighbourhood of Jalal Abad in eastern Afghanistan. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | | The starkest change that Kiana and Mélissa noted since August 2021 was the general loss of hope among women that things might improve for them, as dreams of having an education and becoming members of society were shattered before them, becoming the primary victims of recurring economic and food crises, and a health system that has all but collapsed. In the words of one women’s rights activist, who has since left the country, seeing no future for herself in Afghanistan: «We have forgotten joy, we don’t know from where any can be found. I’ve lost all motivation. I cry alone, hidden. It’s as if someone has locked me in a room and won’t let me outside. Even food has no taste.»
Kiana and Mélissa used various media to document this highly sensitive situation, including photographs, sketches, and videos, and art created collaboratively with Afghan teenage girls. | | | | | | | | | | Yamit District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, May 10, 2024. Kheshroo's daughter and her cousin, both grade 11 students who were put out of school, committed suicide a year before by throwing themselves in the water. The family plays in puddles of water, among troops of yaks, horses and goats, in front of the Wakhan mountains, Wakhan, a region that had never been controlled by the Taliban before 2021. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | | UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Kiana and Mélissa's reportage No Woman’s Land will be showcased in a double exhibition this fall as part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival in Paris. The indoor exhibition at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers, designed by the scenographer Alice de Bortoli and her collective, Ortiche, will combine photographs, archives, videos, texts, and drawings. A second, outdoor exhibition will be held on the Port de Solférino, opposite the Musée d’Orsay, in partnership with the City of Paris.
Exhibition in Paris from October 25 - November 18, 2024
Réfectoire des Cordeliers
15 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006
Monday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm
Free admission
Port de Solférino 75007 Paris
Open to the public | | | | | | | | | | Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, February 17, 2024. A private institute in the West of Kabul, where girls follow the American curriculum in English, but cannot obtain any Afghan official education certificate, nor can they go to university in Afghanistan, closed for women. This is a rare instance where the school has managed to secure the local Taliban's approval to shut a blind eye on the school's operation with teenage girls. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | |
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| | 15TH EDITION CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD | | | | Overfishing in Southeast Asia: An Ecological and Human Drama | | | CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Applications have been extended to September 9, 2024
The 15th edition will focus on Southeast Asia, highlighting human and environmental rights violations caused by illegal fishing and overfishing. Interested photographers are invited to submit their applications, free of charge, by September 9, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. (GMT).
More information on fondationcarmignac.com
THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD
In 2009, while media and photojournalism faced an unprecedented crisis, Edouard Carmignac created the Carmignac Photojournalism Award to support photographers in the field. Every year, it funds the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations and geo-strategic issues in the world. The Fondation Carmignac provides the laureate with financial and human resources to carry out their project and produces both a monograph and a traveling exhibition, aiming to shed light on the crises and challenges which the contemporary world is facing.
Previous editions of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award have focused on: Gaza (Kai Wiedenhöfer); Pashtunistan (Massimo Berruti); Zimbabwe (Robin Hammond); Chechnya (Davide Monteleone); Iran (Newsha Tavakolian); Guyana (Christophe Gin); Libya (Narciso Contreras); Nepal (Lizzie Sadin); the Arctic (Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev); the Amazon (Tommaso Protti), the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finbarr O’Reilly and the collective of photographers for the project "Congo in Conversation"), Venezuela (Fabiola Ferrero) and Ghana (Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen).
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