Amira Al Sharfi

Amira Al-Sharif is an independent Yemeni photojournalist with over seventeen years of experience documenting the beauty and suffering of her beloved country. Her work has been published in Yemeni newspapers as well as internationally with National Geographic, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. She has worked on assignments for UNICEF, UNHCR, and Oxfam, and received multiple prizes, fellowships, and nominations; from the World Press Photo Foundation, Women Photograph, the Prince Claus Fund along with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Samir Kassir Foundation and Free Press Unlimited’s “Most Resilient Journalist Award”. Al Sharif is ICORN writer-in-residence in Paris City of refuge 2019-2021.