The women warriors of photojournalism

Three female photojournalists are honored for capturing humanity besieged in war zones

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Kabul, Afghanistan
(Image credit: April 1, 2014)

Heidi Levine photographing in Jerusalem
(Image credit: (Warrick Page)Heidi Levine, winnerLevine is an American freelance photographer based in Jerusalem. Over three decades, she has traveled the Middle East photographing such critical moments as)

Shujayea, Gaza
(Image credit: Aug. 8, 2014)

Nuseirat camp, Gaza Strip
(Image credit: July 9, 2014)

Gaza City
(Image credit: July 16, 2014)

Rebecca Blackwell
(Image credit: (Dominique Derda)Photographing in these communities where few international journalists work, Blackwell says she felt her work had a louder voice. "Every act of witnessing and documenting bec)

Gobongo neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic
(Image credit: Dec. 26, 2013)

Outside Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic
(Image credit: Dec. 23, 2013.)

Castor neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic
(Image credit: Dec. 30, 2013)

Anastasia Vlasova
(Image credit: (Evgeniy Maloletka)Vlasova was reportedly detained and interrogated in the basement of an insurgent in Donetsk, Ukraine. But she never regretted risking her life to cover both sides of the co)

Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
(Image credit: A room in a kindergarten that was reportedly hit by a rocket launched by Kremlin-backed insurgents.)

Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
(Image credit: Relatives attend the funeral ceremony of 11-year-old Artem Lytkin. "I've never seen people more miserable and abandoned," Vlasova says. "This image stays with me almost all the time, and it p)

Debaltseve, Donetsk, Ukraine
(Image credit: Local residents sit in a bus as they wait to be evacuated.)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.