Panel Discussion on Press Freedom: Courage in the Face of Censorship

You can find the recording here: https://www.hamburgportfolioreview.de/hpr2024

Panel Talk with Iranian photographer Yalda Moaiery and Gemma Pörzgen from Reporters Without Borders about »Press Freedom: Courage in the Face of Censorship«. Moderated by Sebastian H. Schroeder.

Yalda Moaiery

Yalda Moaiery is an Iranian photojournalist who has covered conflict, war, and natural disasters for the past 20 years. She started her career covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and has since documented the aftermath of the tsunami in Indonesia, Afghanistan's first parliamentary election, floods in Pakistan, and conflicts in Lebanon, Georgia, and Russia. Women have been a focal point of Yalda’s photographic career. She has documented women working as security guards for the Iranian regime and the inception of the special police dealing with women and the enforcement of mandatory hijab in Iran. In December 2017, she captured an image of a student protesting economic conditions at Tehran University, which became…