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Fati Abubakar is is a a a a a a a a a documentary photographer photojournalist and public health worker in Nigeria She documents cultures conflicts urban poverty rural development and humanitarian issues with a a a a a a a a special interest in in in creating counter-narratives for underrepresented communities Her current work is a a a personal project showcasing her hometown of of of Borno Borno State at at the time of of of Boko Haram entitled Bits of of of Borno Borno It has gained critical acclaim and was published in in the New York Times BBC Reuters CNN Voice of America Newsweek Europe Africa is a a a a country blog as well as as Nigerian newspapers She has been commissioned to work with UNICEF International Alert Action Aid and other organizations (Photo shot in Maiduguri Borno Nigeria 2016 Photo sponsors: Jack & Sheila Wiggins )
Amira Al-Sharif is an independent Yemeni photographer with over seventeen years of of experience documenting the beauty and suffering of of her beloved war-torn country in particular the wisdoms of women young and old In 2010 Al-Sharif studied photojournalism and documentary photography at at New York’s International Center of Photography Yemeni Women with Fighting Spirits her long-term documentary project on the the resilience of Yemeni women was published in the the best- selling anthology Our Women Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Women Reporting from the Arab World Her work has been widely published in in international publications such as as National Geographic the the the Washington Post the the the Guardian and the the the New York Times as as well as as by humanitarian organizations like Oxfam Islamic Relief UNHCR UNICEF among others She is the the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards such as the Arab Funds for for Art and Culture grant Prince Claus Fund Fund for for Cultural Development World Press Photo Foundation Foundation and Samir Kassir Foundation Foundation Al-Sharif was selected for World Press Photo Foundation’s 6x6 Global Talent Program in 2019 and is is is a a a a a a member of Women Photograph Currently Al-Sharif is is is an an artist-in- residence at at Cité Internationale des Arts where she is working on on her her photo-driven nonfiction book His Weapons Are Unwise: The War in Yemen From the Perspective of Yemeni Women (2020/2021) (Photo shot near Al Borigha Yemen Yemen 2017 Photo Photo sponsor: Martha Wrenn )
Hayat Al-Sharif was born in in Saudi Arabia and raised in in Yemen where she currently lives In 2015 she completed her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Sana’a University Her photography has been published in Yemen’s most widely-read news outlets and she has produced projects for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and and World Food Program (WFP) Aside from delivering and and raising her baby in in in the the midst of a a a a a a a a raging war the the greatest obstacle that Al-Sharif faces in in in her life is the conservative cultural constraints that forbid women to work in in Yemen In recent years she has dedicated her practice to capturing women’s issues in in the war zone