[Replay] Night of Photojournalism 2024 - Paris

Over six months, they traveled to seven provinces to document the effects of Taliban rule on women and girls, capturing stories of those denied basic rights, including access to education, work, and public spaces.

Through photography, video, and collaborative art with Afghan teenage girls, Kiana and Mélissa reveal both the deep oppression and the resilience of Afghan women.

In this discussion, they explored the challenges of documenting these realities.

The conversation, moderated by journalist Laurence Cornet, explores long-form storytelling, the importance of local voices, disrupting stereotypes, and how their years-long projects document moments of resilience and normalcy in heavily photographed conflict regions.

Following a decade of reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrea Bruce has turned her lens to her home in Pamlico County, North Carolina, to reinvigorate local civic engagement and connection by launching a visual journalism publication that highlights the everyday experiences of rural communities.

The photographer discusses about the importance of community narratives in shaping democratic discourse in one of the US’s most embattled battleground states - three years after she launched her publication, a month after a devastating hurricane hit the state, and just days after a contentious presidential election.

Photographer Cristina de Middel investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth. Blending documentary and conceptual photographic practices, she plays with reconstructions and archetypes in order to construct layered depictions of the subjects she approaches.

Photographer Amandine Lauriol documented Marzieh, a 21-year-old Afghan refugee who, after fleeing the Taliban's takeover in 2021, continues her fight for women's rights from France, while being a member of both the French Taekwondo team and the Olympic Refugee Team.

Photographers Tshepiso Mazibuko and Sibusiso Bheka belong to the so-called “born free” generation, a term designating the black youth born after the first non-racial democratic elections in 1994, who never experienced apartheid.

The two photographers, intertwining their sensibilities, take the pulse of the nascent South African democracy, deeply questioning the very meaning of “born free”.