Robin Tutenges

Robin Tutenges was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with Kazakhstan-Xinjiang, the Border of Tears

Born in 1995, Robin Tutenges is a French journalist and photojournalist working mainly on crisis and their aftermath, with a focus on telling the big story through individual’s ones. He has notably worked with the anti-junta resistance in Myanmar (Finalist for RSF’s Lucas Dolega-SAIF Prize 2023, Victor Hugo Prize 2023), survivors of the Chinese camps in Xinjiang who have taken refuge in Kazakhstan (Selected for the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents 2023) and on the farmers’ revolt in India (Diplomatic Press Prize 2021). Since 2023, he focused his work on girls’ early marriage around the world (grant from the European Journalism Center) and on the skateboarding community in Ukraine during the war (grant from the National Center of Plastic Art in France). His reports have been published in French and international press.

Léa Polverini

Léa Polverini was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with Kazakhstan-Xinjiang, the Border of Tears

Léa Polverini is a French freelance journalist and editor covering international news and human rights abuses. She regularly writes for Slate.fr about MENA and East-Asian issues, and worked as special correspondent in China, Lebanon, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Morocco. She contributes to various media such as Le Monde diplomatique, The Guardian, L’Orient-Le Jour or Jeune Afrique. She won the Kurt Schork Freelance Journalist Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2023 for her reports in Kazakhstan about Chinese concentration camps’ survivors – a work that was also nominated for the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents 2023. Her work in post-blast Lebanon was nominated for the True Story Award 2022. Léa Polverini also teaches Comparative literature at Aix-Marseille University, while preparing a PhD about revolts and derision in contemporary Arabic literatures.