Photography

Farzana Wahidy

Farzana Wahidy (born 1984) is an Afghan documentary photographer and photojournalist. She has made photographs of women and girls in Afghanistan. She was the first female photographer in Afghanistan to work with international media agencies such as the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Wahidy studied at the AINA Photojournalism Institute set up in Kabul by Reza Deghati to train Afghan women and men to pursue careers in photojournalism. Beginning in 2002, she was one of 15 students selected from more than 500 applicants. She studied under the Iranian-French photojournalist Manoocher Deghati. Wahidy chose a career in photojournalism because she wanted to capture the stories that she witnessed throughout her life. Wahidy uses her photography to express her own emotions as an Afghan woman and amplify the voices of others like her in the male-dominated country of Afghanistan. With her photography, she wants to portray the ordinary lives of Afghan women, not just the issues that they face.

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