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The women warriors of photojournalism

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

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by Lauren Hansen
December 8, 2017

Kabul, Afghanistan

April 1, 2014

Heidi Levine photographing in Jerusalem

(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

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Shujayea, Gaza

Aug. 8, 2014

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Nuseirat camp, Gaza Strip

July 9, 2014

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Gaza City

July 16, 2014

Rebecca Blackwell

(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

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Gobongo neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic

Dec. 26, 2013

Outside Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic

Dec. 23, 2013.

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Castor neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic

Dec. 30, 2013

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Anastasia Vlasova

(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

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Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

A room in a kindergarten that was reportedly hit by a rocket launched by Kremlin-backed insurgents.

Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

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

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Debaltseve, Donetsk, Ukraine

Local residents sit in a bus as they wait to be evacuated.

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