Canadian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri becomes first Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow in Photojournalism

Open this photo in gallery:Photographer Kiana Hayeri has won several international awards for her work.Aaron Vincent Elkaim/SuppliedShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountIranian-Canadian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri has won the inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Photojournalism, presented by the Truth Tellers Summit.The fellowship includes a year-long photojournalism mentorship position at The Globe and Mail and at Reuters.Ms. Hayeri, who moved to Toronto after growing up in Tehran, has focused her work on underreported communities in the Middle East and Central Asia, and telling stories about women and forced displacement.She has won several international awards for her work, including the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award in 2020, the 2020 Robert Capa Gold Medal and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2022. She published her photobook When Cages Fly in 2024, the same year she became a laureate of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award.Open this photo in gallery:Sofia, a two-year-old Afghan girl, sits beneath photos of her father, who was killed. July 26, 2018.Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times News ServiceThe fellowship will be formally awarded on May 6 at the fourth annual Truth Tellers Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit, which celebrates groundbreaking journalism from around the world.“Hayeri emerged as a clear and compelling choice from a highly competitive global field, standing out not only with the strength and sensitivity of her portfolio but also with the clarity of her vision and the moral urgency of her work,” the Truth Tellers Summit said in an announcement on its website.Ms. Hayeri said in the statement that the fellowship will give her the “time, support and mentorship” to continue her practice “in a meaningful way.”Open this photo in gallery:A private institute in the West of Kabul allows girls to follow the American curriculum in English, but they cannot obtain any Afghan official education certificate. Feb. 17, 2024Kiana Hayeri/Supplied“It allows me to deepen a practice rooted in slow storytelling, where photography holds power to account while centring the lived experiences of those most affected,” she said. “At a time when truth is contested and attention is fleeting, staying with these stories is more urgent than ever.”The Truth Tellers Summit was founded by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, to commemorate her late husband, Sir Harry Evans, editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. The summit aims to support reporters investigating with the same rigour as Mr. Evans, who is most well-known for helping mothers receive compensation after the morning-sickness drug thalidomide led to their children being born with deformed organs and missing limbs. He was later editor-at-large at the Reuters news service.Open this photo in gallery:Yazidi refugees adapt to a new life in Canada. Oct. 18, 2018Kiana Hayeri/The Globe and MailThe fellowship was created with the support of Thomson Reuters chairman David Thomson and his family. Mr. Evans was editor when Mr. Thomson’s grandfather, Roy Thomson, owned The Times and The Sunday Times. (The Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, owns The Globe and Mail.)Since 2022, the summit has invited editors and reporters from around the world to host panels in London and awarded fellowships for investigative journalism.

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