Kiana Hayeri
{{Short description|Canadian photojournalist}}
Kiana Hayeri (born in 1988) is an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist.{{Cite web |title=Winner 2022: Kiana Hayeri – Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022 |url=https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/winners/winner-2022-kiana-hayeri.html |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Leica Oskar Barnack Award |language=en}} She has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal (2020), Tim Hetherington Visionary Award (2020), and Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2022).
Life and work
Hayeri was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. She emigrated to Toronto, Canada, as a teenager. {{As of|2022}} she lived in Kabul, Afghanistan and works regularly for The New York Times and National Geographic. Hayeri has also worked with Harper's Magazine,{{cite web | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/mothers-day-single-mothers-afghanistan/article34969069/ | title=After decades of conflict, millions of women in Afghanistan are raising children on their own. Here are their stories | website=The Globe and Mail | date=14 May 2017 }} BuzzFeed and Nike.{{cite web | url=https://www.nike.com/ca/a/a-safe-space-for-women-to-work-out | title=Points of Play: A Safe Space for Women to Work Out }}
Awards
- 2024: 14th edition of the Carmignac Foundation Photojournalism Award for No Woman's Land, with journalist Mélissa Cornet
- 2020: Robert Capa Gold Medal, from the Overseas Press Club of America{{Cite web |date=2021-10-12 |title=The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020 |url=https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/the-robert-capa-gold-medal-award-2020/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Overseas Press Club|language=en-US}}
- 2020: Tim Hetherington Visionary Award from the Tim Hetherington Trust. A £20,000 grant for Promises Written On The Ice, Left In The Sun.{{Cite web |title=Visionary Award 2020: Kiana Hayeri 14 May 2020 |url=http://www.timhetheringtontrust.org/news-and-calendar/2020/05/visionary-award-2020-kiana-hayeri |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Tim Hetherington Trust |language=en}}
- 2020: James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, Online Journalism Awards from the Online News Association{{Cite web|date=2020-10-08 |title=Kiana Hayeri honored with the 2020 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting |url=https://awards.journalists.org/2020/10/08/kiana-hayeri-honored-with-the-2020-james-foley-award-for-conflict-reporting/ |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Online News Association |language=en-US}}
- 2022: Leica Oskar Barnack Award{{Cite news |first1=Joyce|last1=Fang|date=2022-11-03 |title=Iranian-Canadian photographer wins prestigious Leica award with stirring photos of Afghan women |language=en |work=The Straits Times |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/life/iranian-canadian-photographer-wins-prestigious-leica-award-with-stirring-photos-of-afghan-women |access-date=2023-09-27 |issn=0585-3923}}{{Cite web |first1=Martha|last1=Elliott|date=2022-10-20 |title=Kiana Hayeri wins Leica photography award for series on Afghan women |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/kiana-hayeri-wins-leica-photography-award-2022 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Wallpaper |language=en}}
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Category:Canadian photojournalists
Category:21st-century Canadian photographers
Category:Photographers from Tehran
Category:Canadian women photographers
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