In 2009, Fondation Carmignac established the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. Based in Paris and directed by Emeric Glayse, it funds annually the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations and geostrategic issues in the world. Selected by an international jury, the laureates receive a €50,000 grant to carry out a 6-month field report with the support of the Fondation Carmignac, which produces, upon their return, a traveling exhibition and the publication of a monograph.

Previous editions of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award have focused on: Gaza (Kai Wiedenhöfer); Pachtunistan (Massimo Berruti); Zimbabwe (Robin Hammond); Chechnya (Davide Monteleone); Iran (Newsha Tavakolian); Guyana (Christophe Gin); Libya (Narciso Contreras); Nepal (Lizzie Sadin); the Arctic (Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev); the Amazon (Tommaso Protti) the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finbarr O’Reilly and the photographers of the collective project “Congo in Conversation”), Venezuela (Fabiola Ferrero), Ghana (Anas Aremayaw Anas, Muntaka Chasant and Bénédicte Kurzen) and Afghanistan (Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet). The laureates’ reportages have been widely featured in French and international media. 

Photos from top left to right by Kiana Hayeri; Fabiola Ferrero; Muntaka Chasant; Bénédicte Kurzen; Finbarr O’Reilly; Arlette Bashizi; Tommaso Protti; Yuri Kozyrev.