Emilienne Malfatto
Emilienne Malfatto is an award-winning photojournalist covering post-conflict and social issues, mostly in Iraq.
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The Last Days of the Negus Train
Photojournalist Emilienne Malfatto boards the century-old Negus train on one of its last trips across the Ethiopian desert.
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About the Journalist
Emilienne Malfatto is an award-winning photojournalist covering post-conflict and social issues, mostly in Iraq.
She studied in France and Colombia and graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 2013. She then worked for the Agence France Presse (AFP) in France and on the Middle East regional desk. In early 2015 she moved to northern Iraq as a freelancer. She now lives between Iraq and Southern Europe, with occasional reporting in Latin America.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times’ Lens blog, UNESCO, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, among others.