| | | | | | | | | | | | | 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award | | | | Call for Applications: Afghanistan | | | | Deadline for Applications: Friday, October 6, 2023 at 11:59pm (GMT) | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is devoted to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan.
On 26 May 2023, the NGO Amnesty International published jointly with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) a report urging the International Criminal Court to qualify the abuses committed by the Taliban as a “crime against humanity” based on gender and sexuality, under article 7 of the Court's Rome Statute.
« While the backlash against women's and girls' rights has unfolded in different countries and regions in recent years, nowhere else in the world has there been an attack as widespread, systematic and all-encompassing on the rights of women and girls as in Afghanistan. Every aspect of their lives is being restricted under the guise of morality and through the instrumentalization of religion. » *
Since the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in August 2021, the regime has grown stronger, establishing since November 2022 a rigorous application of Sharia law and silencing women and girls. Deprived of their fundamental rights, they are subjected to systematic discrimination - exclusion from school after primary school, from political and public life - and prevented from moving around, working and choosing their clothing. They are regularly arrested, tortured, threatened with death and imprisoned. The violence and discrimination perpetrated by the Taliban have been widely documented since the end of the 1990s and violate the human rights recognized in numerous international treaties, to which Afghanistan is a signatory.
The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award intends to support a project aimed at documenting in writing and images the condition of the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The jury will meet in November 2023 to designate the winners. The report will take place from January to June 2024, and will be the subject of a monograph and an exhibition at the end of 2024.
* Human Rights Council, 53rd session, 19 June-14 July 2023, Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan.
THE JURY
Agnès Callamard - Secretary General, Amnesty International
Chékéba Hachemi - President and founder, Afghanistan Libre
Zahra Nader - Editor in Chief, Zan Times
Katherine Pomerantz - Director of Photography, TIME
Laurent Richard - Director and founder, Forbidden Stories
Fiona Shields - Head of Photography, The Guardian
THE PRE JURY
Dimitri Beck - Director of photography, Polka Magazine
Shoair Mavlian - Director, Photographers' Gallery
Tess Raimbeau - Photo editor, Libération
SELECTION PROCESS
The selection of the laureate involves several specialists in photography and in the given theme. It takes place in two stages:
1. The pre-jury has the task of selecting between 12 and 15 proposals from those received.
2. The jury choose a winning project. At the end of the selection process, the jury meets the winning photographer, in order to talk to him or her and, if necessary, to provide the support he or she will need throughout the duration of their project – from the preparation of the reportage to its final exhibition.
The photographers will need to submit their dossier before Friday, October 6th, 2023 at 11:59 PM (GMT) by using the following link: www.fondationcarmignac.com
Submission is entirely free of charge.
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); Pachtunistan (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) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finbarr O'Reilly and the collective of photographers for the project “Congo in Conversation”) and Venezuela (Fabiola Ferrero). The 13th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Ghana and e-waste management (Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen/Noor).
To find out more: www.fondationcarmignac.com
The Fondation Carmignac was founded in 2000 by Edouard Carmignac, a French entrepreneur, CEO and Chairman of asset management company Carmignac. Today, it is structured around three main pillars which developed one after the other. The Carmignac Collection, which has over 300 works of contemporary art, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the Villa Carmignac in Porquerolles which offers temporary exhibitions and a rich cultural programme in a 2000-square-meter art space set in a 15-hectare estate at the heart of a protected site.
To find out more: www.fondationcarmignac.com
UPCOMING EVENTS
November 11-12, 2023: Night of Photojournalism at Amphithéâtre Saint-Côme (Paris, 6th arrondissement), an event presented in partnership with CatchLight and Dysturb as part of PhotoSaintGermain festival.
2024: Exhibition of the 13th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in Paris and New York, and publication of the monograph. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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