Kiana Hayeri

Kiana Hayeri (born in 1988) is an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist.[1] She has received the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award (2020), the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting (2020), the Robert Capa Gold Medal (2021), and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2022), the Carmignac Photojournalism Award (2024), and the World Press Photo Prize (2025 and 2026). She was part of The New York Times team that won The Hal Boyle Award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in the same year.

Life and work

Kiana grew up in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Toronto as a teenager. She took up photography to bridge cultural and linguistic gaps. In 2014, she moved to Kabul and lived there for nearly a decade. Her work often explores migration, adolescence, identity, and sexuality in conflict zones. She is considered part of a new generation of conflict photojournalists who focus less on battlefield imagery and more on human, gendered, and social consequences of war, especially through long-term embedded storytelling.

She has published two photobooks, “When Cages Fly” (2024) and “No Woman’s Land” (2025). “When Cages Fly” was shortlisted for Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, IPA Photobook Awards, a finalist for Lucie Photobook Award and APhF Pick:24 Book Award and the winner of The Photography Book of the Year by POY (Picture Of the Year).

Kiana is a TED fellow, a National Geographic Explorer grantee, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She is currently based in Sarajevo, covering stories from Afghanistan, Syria, the Balkans, and beyond.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Winner 2022: Kiana Hayeri – Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022". Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  2. ↑ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020". Overseas Press Club. 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  3. ↑ "Visionary Award 2020: Kiana Hayeri 14 May 2020". Tim Hetherington Trust. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  4. ↑ "Kiana Hayeri honored with the 2020 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting". Online News Association. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  5. ↑ Fang, Joyce (2022-11-03). "Iranian-Canadian photographer wins prestigious Leica award with stirring photos of Afghan women". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  6. ↑ Elliott, Martha (2022-10-20). "Kiana Hayeri wins Leica photography award for series on Afghan women". Wallpaper. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  7. ↑ "Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Photojournalism". Truth Tellers. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
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