2024 Featured Photographers
Amandine Lauriol is a photographer and videographer from the Hans Lucas Agency, as well as a Taekwondo practitioner. She works on documentary projects focused on social issues, human resilience, and sports.
#Championnes: A view from the Olympics
Marzieh Hamidi was a rising star on the Afghan national Taekwondo team, but when the Taliban seized control of her country, women were banned from competing. In early 2022, she fled to France, the first country to grant her a refugee visa. Amandine Lauriol documented Hamidi’s story, titled “Azadi,” as part of Dysturb’s #Championnes project, a free multimedia initiative for female photojournalists.
Marzieh Hamidi watches her colleagues perform an exercise at the C.Q.P, Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle exam in Paris. The certificate enables holders to teach Taekwondo professionally. The Taekwondo humanitarian foundation, of which she is a member, asked her to receive the training so she could teach refugees in their workshops
