“It’s like two men arguing over a house,” she said, “and in the end they burn it down while we’re still inside.”
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“It’s like two men arguing over a house,” she said, “and in the end they burn it down while we’re still inside.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...
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GIRLTALKHQ: New Photobook Documents The Resilience Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan Under The Taliban www.girltalkhq.com/new-photoboo... @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
The Tug of War at the Top of the World -- www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...
I profiled lawyer Katerya Rashevska in @theguardian.com on Ukraine's fight to rescue the children stolen by Russia, with beautiful portrait by @emileducke.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Finishing the year in Afghanistan 🌄
THE VII FOUNDATION: No Woman’s Land: Behind the Scenes Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/dispatch...? @theviifoundation.bsky.social @melissacrt.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #documentary
Our talk for the VII Foundation on our reportage about Afghan women's lives under the Taliban is now on their new Youtube channel. To (re-)watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3V...
@theviifoundation.bsky.social
"an hourlong bombardment of the notorious Evin prison, killed 80 people including prisoners, social workers and children. Israeli officials justified the attack as a blow against “oppression.” HRW and Amnesty International called it a likely war crime."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
‘The streets of Tbilisi are lined with new cameras. It’s unclear how the algorithm would differentiate between a protester and a passerby: I’ve taken up using side streets to avoid them.’
@melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
‘After the election commission handed the party its fourth mandate, protesters took to the streets. The authorities responded at first with tear gas and mass detentions, before shifting to cleaner tactics.’
@melissacrt.bsky.social in Georgia, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
'it just eats me alive.’
@melissacrt.bsky.social in Tbilisi for @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Beijing and Harbin, July 2025
SIGAR's final report is out, concluding that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan failed to achieve its core goal of creating a free, stable, and democratic state, despite over $2 trillion in spending and the loss of 2,459 American lives.
www.sigar.mil/Portals/147/...
Ukraine sketchbook from my last trip there, earlier this year
Russia becomes first country to recognise the Taliban
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I'll be in Sarajevo next week at the wonderful WARM festival to present our project No Woman's Land.
More info on the program: warmfoundation.org/festival/
I'll also be at the Festival des Libertés in October in Brussels: www.festivaldeslibertes.be/2025/fase6?e...
The feminist case for treating women’s bodies as instruments for other people’s agendas.
This is a great piece: (can share PDF)
Our project No Woman's Land, documenting Afghan women's lives under the Taliban, and published in the @theguardian.com, won an @amnesty.org International Media Award !
To read the piece: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@amnestyuk.bsky.social press release: www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
Our project No Woman’s Land, documenting the lives of Afghan women under the Taliban, won a World Press Photo!
I wrote a behind-the-scenes account of how Kiana and I made our project No Woman's Land happen, interviewing 100+ women in Afghanistan in 2024.
Read it on the VII Foundation website: dispatchesviifoundation.substack.com/p/no-womans-...
The making of a photobook: after three intense days of editing, No Woman’s Land will soon exist on paper. More info + Kickstarter + website coming on 8 March!
We’re very keen to make the project accessible and educational, for schools to use, so a cheap version will come too (and the free website)
The recording of our talk on Documenting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan, for the VII Foundation, is now available on their website. In it, we deep dive behind the scenes on working as a duo, ethics, informed consent, security, and more.
To watch it: theviifoundation.org/resource/doc...
Les photos de notre projet No Woman’s Land sont en couverture de @lemonde.fr — beau travail que de réussir à parler des droits des femmes afghanes
Women's rights in Afghanistan:
ICC requests arrest warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Akhundzada and Taliban Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, for their responsibility in the crime of persecution on gender grounds.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
As Afghan women experience ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. @zahrajoya.bsky.social meets the activists resisting this ‘gender apartheid’.
Check out our latest photostory by @melissacrt.bsky.social & Kiana Hayeri: www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
Fotograaf Kiana Hayeri en journalist Mélissa Cornet wisten tijdens twee bezoeken aan Afghanistan honderd vrouwen en meisjes te spreken. Ze willen laten zien hoe hun leven er nu uitziet. https://buff.ly/4ffazK3
Resistance. Defiance. Despair. Photographer Kiana Hayeri (whose photos feat. in #AnUnfinishedJourney) worked with journalist Melissa Cornet to document the massive changes to Afghan women's lives since the Taliban took power 3 years ago. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Thank you!!