14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award: Afghanistan

14TH EDITION OF THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AFGHANISTAN
APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 6, 2023, 11:59 PM (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 2. 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. 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.

APPLICATIONS
The photographers will need to submit their application before Friday, October 6, 2023, at 11:59 PM (GMT) at:
fondationcarmignac.com/en/afghanistan-14th-edition-of-the-carmignac-photojournalism-award/

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 new edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award 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.

For more information, visit fondationcarmignac.com/en/photojournalism-award/