Kiana Hayeri

Bio

Kiana Hayeri is a Senior TED fellow, a National Geographic Explorer grantee, and a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. She has been living in Afghanistan since 2014, not only covering the frontline and the dramatic events of war but also capturing a different and alternative narrative of America’s longest war by focusing on everyday life. In 2021, Kiana received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her photographic series “Where Prison is a Kind of Freedom,” documenting the lives of Afghan women in Herat Prison. She is currently doing a Kickstarter campaign to create a photobook of that series.