Under their face veils, Catalina Martin-Chico has found four Yemeni sisters who indulge in hip-hop, blue jeans and lipstick, as Kerri MacDonald reports.
Hip-hop. Blue jeans. Lipstick. Dreams of moving away.
The photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico came face to face with all these things during her visits with four sisters in Sana, the capital of Yemen. Many scenes that Ms. Martin-Chico captured were not just personal but private; too private even to include in a photo essay titled “Beyond the Veil.”
The Canon Female Photojournalist Award of €8000 (approx. $9000 U.S.) will be given to Catalina Martin-Chico to support her project about women members of Colombian guerilla group FARC. That work will be shown at Visa Pour L’Image in 2018. The award, which is sponsored by ELLE Magazine, honors women photographers for outstanding contributions to photojournalism. Previous winners of the award, which has been given annually since 2001, include Darcy Padilla, Mary F. Calvert, Brenda Ann Kenneally and Ami Vitale.
Catalina Martin-Chico won this year’s International Committee of the Red Cross Visa d’Or Humanitarian Award, the first prize of its kind to be given in Perpignan. She tells BJP about her work in Yemen, which is on show until 11 September.
Catalina Martin-Chico, a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, has won the first ever Humanitarian Visa d’Or photojournalism prize organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross
