Isabelle Eshraghi, France
Women, more than a veil.

For ten years, I have been working, as a photojournalist, on visual investigations on the situation of women in different Muslim countries: Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Niger.

Along the years, I witnessed several changes in those societies, avant-gardist or conservative, and how these women fought, their laughter, their hopes, and their despairs. The Westerner's vision often reduces their life to the veil, arranged weddings, violence, and terrorism. The urge of the news doesn't give us time to understand the reality of Muslim societies. Because of prejudices and common pictures of Islamic countries, we make all women tarred with the same mediatic brush. Beyond countries’ borders, I hope my pictures will invite you to discover those women within Islam, in their diversity and their likeness.