Fatimah Hossaini
Artist, Photographer, Women ActivistFatimah Hossaini is a acclaimed Afghan-Tehran born artist, award-winning photographer, curator, and founder of the Mastooraat Organization. Celebrated as one of the youngest recipients of the prestigious Hypatia International Award, Fatimah’s dedication to research, art, and professional excellence is globally recognized. The Women’s Forum in France has honored her as a rising talent and youth ambassador in 2022. … [ read more about Fatimah ]
Books
BEAUTY AMID WAR
Fatimah Hossaini, Afghan photographer and activist, through her photographs, taken in Iran, Afghanistan and France; the beauty of Afghan women far too often forgotten.
Exiled twice, she fights for the visibility of the beauty and resilience of Afghan women.
Texts: French and English.
Format : 30x24cm
Couverture : Rigide
Pagination : 112 pages
ISBN : 978-2-35130-182-1
Photo Collections
Single Photos
Exhibitions
Articles i worked
- Being a Trans Person in Iran, an Overlooked and Misunderstood Minority
- Afghan women, the resilient struggle for future
- Ridiculously Expensive Weddings Are Leaving Young Afghans in Debt
- Afghan Hazara’s journey to Pakistan for work meets brutal end
- COVID-19 has not left Afghanistan. But in Kabul, people are just ignoring it
- Shocked students say Kabul University attack blow to peace
The story of a wish
Don’t forget your history and Water your roots, so your soul can blossom. Afghanistan was only a name for me for more than 20 years, I just knew it was my motherland and the language people speak is close to my language, I’d see some images from Afghanistan on TV but it was not nice. My father used to listen to Ahmad Zahir songs and playing Damboora. He always told us the stories of his village and how they left the country.
I used to think about my motherland all the time without any reason, without any information or an obvious image. I decided to fly to my motherland on an autumn Saturday morning. I went there and everything changed for me. I am now the daughter of the land of Lajaward, the land of super women like Gawharshad begum or Queen Suraya and the land of untold stories. I am now a storyteller of my motherland who want to create and capture beauty in the middle of war. I feel like I lived here for a long time.
I now feel in love with this part of the world, my motherland, and I found the LOVE in this hopeless place
Fatimah Hossaini
