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
• Website
  https://en.lenkaklicperova.cz/

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...

• Biography
  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.
• Awards
  She has won a number of prizes and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition - both for photography and video. In 2020 she was included in the prestigious Women Photograph database, she was shortlisted in International Women In Photo Association Award (2020 and 2022). She won Solo exhibition (All About Photo) for November 2021 with her work from Nagorno-Karabakh and shortlisted in All about Photo Women and Lens Culture Black&White Photography Award (2021 and 2022). She has been selected as Photojournalist of the Year 2021 (Annual Photography Awards). Finalist of International Women in Photo Association 2021. She has prizes from TIFA, BIFA.