Hi there, I'm Lale Arakogli, and this is another episode of Women Who Travel.

Only 15% of photojournalists are women.

And the closer you get to the front line geographically, the less women you find there.

This week, we hear from women who risk their lives to document conflict and catastrophe around the world.

It's incredibly dangerous to be a photojournalist.

They are recipients of a Courage in Photogenism Award

from the International Women's Media Foundation.

Fear is not your friend.

Once you allow fear to overcome you, you can't think straight.

So it's exceptionally dangerous to allow fear to overcome you, you can't think straight. So it's exceptionally dangerous to allow fear to

overcome you. It's also a real challenge to allow it not to. The pictures that they are going to describe,

which are often hard to look at and absorb, help us understand the impact of war

and natural disasters, and perhaps also encourage some of us to take action. The way I work

isn't sort of like quick and snappy and at all aggressive, actually. It's very slow.

I really believe in having to take it all in to tell a story.

And that's why I like staying longer and pushing, trying to be as present as I can.

For the first time, Photographs by honorees Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Nariman El-Mofti have been published by some of the world's leading media outlets.

But first, a statement from the winner, Samar Abu aloof, who until recently was based in Gaza City.

She continued to document what was happening to her community, even after her home was destroyed and she was separated from her children.

Samar has experienced trauma, she's lost friends and relatives.

She's had to evacuate her home country and could not come to the U.S. to accept her reward in person because of visa issues.

This is what she wrote, especially for us at Women Who Travel.

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