Canon Female Photojournalist Grant recipient 2019 Anush Babajanyan (right) is congratulated by 2018 recipient Laura Morton at the 2019 Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, France. © Mazen Saggar
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Canon Female Photojournalist Grant recipient 2019 Anush Babajanyan (right) is congratulated by 2018 recipient Laura Morton at the 2019 Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, France. © Mazen Saggar
Self-taught Istanbul-based documentary photographer Sabiha Çimen, pictured here, won the 2020 Canon Female Photojournalist Grant for her proposal to document the young Muslim girls who devote themselves to memorising the Qur'an. © Sabiha Çimen / Magnum Photos
A young Muslim girl plays with pet birds in this image from Sabiha Çimen's 2020 Canon Female Photojournalist Grant winning project Hafiz: the Guardians of Qur'an. © Sabiha Çimen / Magnum Photos
Franco-Spanish photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico won the Canon Female Photojournalist Grant in 2017 for her work photographing Colombia's peacetime baby boom. © Mazen Saggar
An image from Laura Morton's University Avenue project, showing Stanford Cheerleading Squad rehearsing ahead of the 97th annual May Fete Parade. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 35mm F1.8 Macro IS STM lens at 1/1250 sec, f/5.6 and ISO200. © Laura Morton
Dancers perform at the 34th annual Cinco de Mayo Parade in neighbouring East Palo Alto. Despite the wealth gap between the neighbouring areas, Laura discovered there was much the residents had in common. Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon RF 35mm F1.8 Macro IS STM lens at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6 and ISO160. © Laura Morton