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The Fondation Carmignac is presenting Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective at London’s Saatchi Gallery from 18 November to 13 December 2015. The exhibition features a total of 40 works, produced since the Award’s 2009 inception by all laureates past and present. The first room of the exhibition is entirely dedicated to the Iranian photojournalist and fifth Carmignac laureate, Newsha Tavakolian. Tavakolian’s project explores the lives of young middle class Iranians caught between the pressures of an increasingly modern society and a revolutionary Islamic ideology. Photographs from the winning projectproduced in 2013 are shown alongside video installations first exhibited at the Venice Biennale this year. Chechnya forms the focus of four works on show by Italian photojournalist, Davide Monteleone. Taken from the report Monteleone

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