TIFA 2021 Editorial / Conflict

Lost War

  • Prize
    Silver in Editorial/Conflict
  • Photographer
    Lenka Klicperová
  • Agency / Studio
    Lenka Klicperová
  • Technical Info
    Hi-res, Jpeg
  • Photo Date
    October 2020 to January 2021

At the end of September 2020, Azerbaijan attacked the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, which had until then been administered by Armenia. The somewhat frozen conflict flared up again. The fighting broke out with incredible fierceness and cruelty. The war ended on the night of November 9-10. The Armenians were left with only a fraction of the territory they had conquered in the previous war. People had to leave their homes, some of them set fire to their houses so that they would not fall into the hands of the Azeris. They became homeless...

Czech journalist and photographer. From 2004 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of the magazine about traveling. Since 2018 she has been working as a freelance reporter and photographer focused on war zones. She is the co-author of several documentaries (Tears of the Congo, Latim - Circumcised, Iraqi, Women in the Land of Taliban, Unbroken) and a number of television reports.She is the co-author of nine books about Africa, about war in the Middle East and Nagorno Karabakh. She has been covering the war in Ukraine since the beginning.