Latin America Professional Award 2024 Shortlist

Two years after the Taliban reoccupied Afghanistan, there are strong echoes of life as it was before U.S.-led NATO forces removed them from the government in 2001. Once more the country is ruled by the faction that has restored many of the strict rules it imposed in the 1990s, greatly curtailing daily life and the freedoms of Afghans, specially for women. At the same time, Afghanistan has faded from the international agenda, and since the Taliban’s resurgence a significant amount of humanitarian aid has been reduced, it is now difficult to find any media reflecting and documenting the current situation.'

Rodrigo Abd was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 27, 1976. Since 2003 he has worked for the agency “Associated Press” (AP). Residing until 2012 in Guatemala, in 2006, he settled in Kabul, Afghanistan. Between 2012 and 2020 he lived in Lima, Peru. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize twice, 2013 and 2023. Other individual awards include the World Press Photo (2005/2013), Maria Moors Cabot (2016) and the GABO award (2022). Since 2021, he is living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.