Elyor Nematov

 

Year of Winning Submission: 2016

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Elyor Nematov was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. He currently works as a freelance photojournalist and teacher of documentary photography workshops. In 2012, he received a grant from the Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project for a project about labour migration from Central Asia. He is currently working on a project about gender equality and women’s rights in Kyrgyzstan.

Winning Story: Kyrgyzstan