| | | | | | | | | 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 | | | 14TH EDITION CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD | | | | NO WOMAN’S LAND: A collaborative report by | | | | An Intimate Look into the Battle for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan | | | 25 October - 18 November, 2024 Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris
31 October - 18 December, 2024 Port de Solférino, Paris | | | | | | Réfectoire des Cordeliers
15 rue de l’école de Médecine, Paris (Odéon metro station)
Monday to Sunday, 11am-7pm
Free admission, no prior booking required
Port de Solférino, In front of the Musée d'Orsay
Port de Solférino, 75007 Paris
Outdoor exhibition, free access, open to the public 24/7
In partnership with the City of Paris
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| | | | | | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | The exhibition No Woman’s Land showcases the work of Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet, laureates of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award, which focuses on the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. Presented at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers and on Port de Solférino, this six-month collaborative report was produced with the support of the Fondation Carmignac. | | | | | | | | | | Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, February 23, 2024
A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | | THE REPORT
Over the course of the last six months, 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.
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, including singing, reciting, or reading aloud.
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.» | | | | | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | THE EXHIBITION
The report No Woman’s Land by Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet is showcased in a double exhibition in Paris, indoors at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers and outdoors on Port de Solférino, as part of the PhotoSaintGermain Festival, in partnership with Amnesty International.
The exhibition at the Réfectoire des Cordliers seeks to capture the gendered experiences that shape the lives of women and girls under the Taliban regime. Through a spatial narrative, the exhibition moves between the inside/outside dichotomy: a male-dominated outer space where women find themselves looking out from behind metaphorical windows, contemplating the possibilities beyond their reach. In stark contrast, the inner space appears as an ever-shrinking sanctuary, the only place where women can still express their humanity, embodying a realm of potential and aspiration.
Beyond these two realms, however, lies a fragile but crucial in-between space that allows boundaries to be reimagined and safeguard possibilities. A liminal space protected by women journalists and activists who play a pivotal role in using their voices to fight for their rights, challenge norms and advocate for change. They shed light on the hidden narratives and foster the dialogue that empowers women to reclaim their stories, thereby transforming their presence in both the public and private spheres.
The exhibition documents this extremely sensitive situation using a variety of media, including photos, drawings and videos, as well as creating works of art in collaboration with Afghan teenage girls.
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 dedicated website and a travelling 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) ; the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finbarr O’Reilly and the collective of photographers for the project “Congo in Conversation”) ; Venezuela (Fabiola Ferrero), Ghana (Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen) and the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan (Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet).
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