Zahra Mojahed

Zahra Mojahed is an Afghani photographer. Due to the Taliban’s persecution of the Hazara ethnic minority group, Mojahed and her family fled to Iran when she was 5 years old. There, they faced discrimination as well, and later sought asylum in Greece in 2019.

She was quickly drawn to photography through ReFOCUS Media Labs, a global network of media labs dedicated to equipping asylum seekers and refugees with modern media creation skills.

Mojahed’s work is featured in 1000 Dreams, an exhibit through which refugees tell the stories of other migrants. She tracked down, photographed, and interviewed 70 migrants for the project. The exhibit is supported by Witness Change, a non-profit founded by National Geographic Explorer and photographer Robin Hammond.

Her dream is to continue her education and one day be recognized as an influential female photographer and filmmaker. Through her work, she seeks to inspire and support vulnerable women of different cultural backgrounds.

Irina Werning

Based in Buenos Aires, Irina Werning is a freelance multimedia photojournalist working on personal projects. She studied for a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in history. She worked as a sociologist in London, where she studied for a master’s in photojournalism at the University of Westminster. Werning won the Ian Parry Scholarship (The Sunday Times Magazine and Getty) in 2006, a BURN grant (Magnum Foundation) in 2012, and the first place Sony World Photography Award in portraiture in 2012.

She was also selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo 2007, and was chosen by TIME as one of “Nine Argentinian Photographers You Need To Follow” in 2015. Her book Back to the Future was chosen by TIME as one of the best photobooks of 2014. In 2020, she was awarded the Emergency Covid Grant (National Geographic.) Werning won a 2022 World Press Photo Award for her Pulitzer Center-supported project La Promesa.

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Indigenous Photograph

Indigenous Photograph is a space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces. Their mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities, and to reflect on how we tell these stories.

Indigenous Photograph’s global database is available to photo editors, creative directors, and those who routinely hire photographers. The electronic database of their members includes detailed information regarding geographical areas of expertise, languages spoken, and contact information.