Night of Photojournalism 2024 • Paris, France
Visual presentations and dialogue with leaders in photojournalism and documentary photography.
- 6 PM: Beyond the Frontline: Civilian Perspectives in Ukraine and Palestine
Featuring Tanya Habjouqa and Anastasia Taylor-Lind, moderated by Laurence Cornet - 7 PM: Heart of the Storm: Reconnecting North Carolina Residents
Featuring Andrea Bruce - 7:30 PM: Azadi
Featuring Amandine Lauriol - 8 PM: No Woman’s Land: An Intimate Look Into the Battle for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Featuring Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
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Open call and Q&A session for impact-driven photographers to apply for a $30,000 grant and other CatchLight Global opportunities and benefits.
Projected photo essays with a DJ-curated soundtrack and live performance by saxophonist Laurent Bardainne and producer Arthur Peschaud.
Late-night keynotes:
- 9 PM: Ubusukunemini (Day and Night)
Featuring Sibusiso Bheka and Tshepiso Mazibuko - 10:30 PM: What Have We Done?
Featuring Cristina de Middel
Overview
The Night of Photojournalism is presented by CatchLight, Fondation Carmignac, and Dysturb, in partnership with PhotoWings, as part of PhotoSaintGermain festival. Produced by three leading organizations with a shared commitment to harnessing the power of visuals to challenge stereotypes, address human rights violations, and foster civic engagement, the event brought together over 800 photographers, journalists, photo editors, content creators, curators, and collectors for a unique celebration during the week of Paris Photo.
Emceed by
Patrick Banks
Founder, The Californien
Patrick Banks is the founder of The Californien, a consultancy dedicated to advising and collaborating with artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs in strategy, cultural production, and business development. Before moving to Paris, Patrick enjoyed a successful career as an attorney in New Orleans. He then spent 15 years as a real estate development executive, playing a key role in transformative projects in San Francisco. Patrick’s diverse professional background and passion for the arts fuel his commitment to empowering and elevating the creative community through The Californien.
Photo by Milena Carranza Valcarcel
PROGRAM DETAILS
Beyond the Frontline
CIVILIAN PERSPECTIVES IN UKRAINE AND PALESTINE
Anastasia Taylor-Lind, 2024 CatchLight Global Fellow, and Tanya Habjouqa with moderator by Laurence Cornet
Presented by CatchLight
Photographers Tanya Habjouqa (Occupied Pleasures, Birds Unaccustomed to Gravity) and Anastasia Taylor-Lind (5k from the Frontline, CatchLight Global Fellow) bring new perspectives to conflict photography by centering ongoing civilian life in war zones. Their conversation 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.
Photo by Christopher Michel
Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a British/Swedish photojournalist and poet, has been reporting on women, war and violence for the last twenty years. She is a 2024 Catchlight Fellow, National Geographic Society Explorer, TED fellow and a 2016 Harvard Nieman fellow. Anastasia has been photographing the war in Ukraine since it started in 2014. An overview of this work was exhibited at Imperial War Museums in the UK in 2022. Her monograph Maidan- Portraits from the Black Square documented the Revolution of Dignity and was published by GOST books in 2014. Her first poetry collection One Language was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. Anastasia holds Masters degrees in Documentary Photography and Poetry.
Photo by Elisa Haberer
Laurence Cornet has 15 years of experience as a photo editor and writer. Her collaborations include international publications such as MSNBC (US), Vogue (US), Vice (US/FR), Newsweek (US), The Guardian (UK), Le Devoir (CA), and various book projects and publishing houses worldwide (Actes Sud, RecCollective). She also co-founded Dog Food, a magazine about photography, in 2013. She is currently the editorial director of the alternative media organization, Dysturb, and the international photo editor at the French newspaper, Le Monde.
Photo by Peter Van Agtmael
Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan/USA), is an award-winning photojournalist, artist, and educator with a track record of narrative innovation and reputation for dynamic, creative work grounded in ethical practice and collaboration. Habjouqa is a leading voice in the advancement of new documentary practices seeking to reframe news and politics through a nuanced, culturally literate lens.
Heart of the Storm
RECONNECTING NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS
Andrea Bruce, CatchLight Local Senior Fellow
Presented by CatchLight
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. Hear insights from Bruce 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.
Andrea Bruce is a photographer, educator and writer whose work focuses on ideas of democracy and the aftermath of war. She often concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war’s wake. She is the publisher of Down in the County and teaches at Ball State University.
Azadi
Amandine Lauriol, Hans Lucas Agency
Presented by Dysturb
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.” 
© Amandine Lauriol – From the Championnes project, “Azadi.”
Photographer Amandine Lauriol, from Hans Lucas Agency, 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. Marzieh is also a member of both the French Taekwondo team and the Olympic Refugee Team. Presented as part of Dysturb’s #Championnes project, a free multimedia initiative for female photojournalists, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture – Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (DRAC) and the ITEM collective of photographers.
Photo by Ludovic Gery
Amandine Lauriol, a photographer and video-maker, divides her work between documentary projects focused on social issues and human resilience and projects centered on sports. She is now set to combine these two areas to create reports that examine the role of sports in society as a means of bringing people together.
No Woman’s Land
An Intimate Look into the Battle for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet, laureates of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award
Presented by Fondation Carmignac
Photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and researcher Mélissa Cornet provide a powerful look into the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan through their report, ‘No Woman’s Land’ produced with the support of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. 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. Their discussion will explore the challenges of documenting these realities and the broader impact on women’s rights under oppressive regimes.
Photo by Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Kiana is a TED Fellow, a National Geographic Explorer grantee, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She is currently based in Sarajevo, telling stories from Afghanistan, the Balkans, and beyond. She’s the co-laureate of the 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Prize with researcher Mélissa Cornet.
Mélissa Cornet is a women’s rights researcher who lived in Afghanistan from 2018 until after the fall of Kabul. She’s the co-laureate of the 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Prize with photographer Kiana Hayeri. She is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ubusukunemini (Day and Night)
Tshepiso Mazibuko and Sibusiso Bheka
Presented by Rubis Mécénat
Photographers Tshepiso Mazibuko and Sibusiso Bheka belong to South Africa’s so-called “born free” generation, a term for Black youth born after the country’s first non-racial democratic elections in 1994, after the fall of apartheid. Their exhibition “Ubusukunemini (Day and Night),” featured in PhotoSaintGermain, is a portrait of Thokoza, the township where they were born and raised, exploring the community via its present, its history, and its memory. With intertwining sensibilities, they take the pulse of the nascent democracy, questioning what it means to be “born free.”
Tshepiso Mazibuko was born in 1995 in Thokoza, South Africa. She uses the medium of photography as a vessel to self-position herself and create links between the political, society, landscape and history. Mazibuko was first introduced to photography in high school through the of soul and joy project initiated by Rubis mecenat. She then went on to further her studies at the renowned Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, in 2016 she completed her studies. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Tierney Fellowship. Working as an independent photographer, she was awarded the Prince Claus Fund Award Grant in 2018 for her project “Between Spaces.” Mazibuko has participated in numerous shows, including at the Ithuba Art Gallery in Johannesburg, The Market Photo Workshop, The Ghent Photo Festival in Belgium, Gallery A MaGNIN’, The Turbine Art Fair, Paris Art Fair, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Cite Des Artes, Warren Editions in Cape Town, the Art Africa fair in Cape Town as well as the Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia. In 2021, she became one of the founding members of Umhlabathi Collective. She is also winner of the 2024 Public Award of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award and laureate for the Prix Madame Figaro for photography 2024.
Sibusiso Bheka (b. 1997, Katlehong, South Africa) he began photography in 2012 through the Of Soul and Joy Photo Project. His work documents life in Thokoza, reflecting South Africa’s complex history, capturing the scars of its violent past alongside the beauty of everyday township life.
What Have We Done?
Cristina De Middel, Magnum Photos
Presented by World Press Photo
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. Working from the premise that mass media is reducing our real understanding of the world we live in, De Middel responds to an urgency to re-imagine tired aesthetic tropes and insert opinion in place of facts. Presented by World Press Photo.
After 10 years as a photojournalist, Cristina De Middel shifted her practice to a more conceptual approach in order to question the documentary value of photography. In 2012 she produced the acclaimed series The Afronauts, triggering a decade of work around the role of photography in creating stereotypes. Besides her prolific career as an author, and as an active member of the photography community, Cristina has been invited to curate festivals like Lagos Photo, PhotoEspaña, and San José Photo in Uruguay. She has published more than 14 photobooks and her work is constantly on show in different institutions and venues. Cristina is also on the board of Vist Projects, a platform to support Latin American visual story-telling and she is a member of Magnum Photos agency and its president since 2022.
CatchLight Global Opening Reception
CatchLight opened the call for submissions for its 2025 Global Fellowship during the Night of Photojournalism. The Fellowship addresses a pressing need in the visual storytelling industry by supporting innovators in the field. Acting as an incubator, it provides financial support in the form of $30,000 grants, fosters personal growth, and develops networking and partnerships. The program cultivates a vibrant community of creative leaders and empowers them to shape the future of the visual field through long-term projects that engage and activate audiences.
The 2025 Fellowship cohort will be announced during the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit in May 2025.
Projections
A showcase of images by award-winning photojournalists and visual media organizations from across the globe
Bringing together photographers, journalists, photo editors, collectives, and digital content creators, the Night of Photojournalism created a vibrant exchange hub to close the weeklong celebration of Paris Photo. After the panels and opening reception for the CatchLight Global Fellowship, guests were immersed in visual projections of photography from around the world documenting some of the greatest issues of our time.
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