| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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, girls, as well as LGBTQIA + minorities. 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 this “crime against humanity” by collecting legally admissible evidence. The laureate will benefit from the support of experts to ensure that testimonies are collected in accordance with legal standards.
The jury will meet in November 2023 to designate the laureate project. 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.
Selection Process
The selection of the laureate will take place in two stages:
1. The pre-jury has the task of selecting between 12 and 15 proposals from those received.
2. The jury, consisting of specialists in photography and in the given theme, chooses a winning project. At the end of the selection process, the jury meets the winning photographer, in order to talk to him/her/they and, if necessary, to provide the support he/she/they 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 October 6, 2023 at 11:59pm (GMT) by clicking directly on the following address: https://fs23.formsite.com/prixcarmignac/14edition/index
Submission is entirely free of charge.
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 human and financial 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); and 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"), and Venezuela (Fabiola Ferrero). The 13th edition is dedicated to Ghana and e-waste management. The laureates will be announced at Visa pour l’Image in September 2023, and their work will be published in a monograph and presented in an exhibition in Paris this winter.
Fondation Carmignac
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.
More information: www.fondationcarmignac.com
Carmignac Photojournalism Award upcoming events:
Exhibition "Venezuela, The Wells Run Dry" by Fabiola Ferrero
Cortona on the Move Festival, Italy
July 13 - October 1, 2023
More information: here
Announcement of the 13th edition Laureates at Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
Screening on Thursday, July 6, 2023 from 9pm
Panel talk on Friday, July 7 at 11am
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