Kashmiri photojournalist & Pulitzer awardee stopped from flying overseas

By Online Desk

The Kashmir-based photojournalist and documentary photographer Sana Irshad Mattoo has been prevented from travelling to Paris by the immigration officers at Delhi airport.

The 28-year-old Pulitzer award winner tweeted that she was not given any purpose by the immigration officers for her journey ban and was instructed that she couldn’t journey overseas.

I used to be scheduled to journey from Delhi to Paris at the moment for a guide launch and images exhibition as certainly one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. Despite procuring a French visa, I used to be stopped on the immigration desk at Delhi airport. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/OoEdBBWNw6

— Sanna Irshad Mattoo (@mattoosanna) July 2, 2022

According to a report Mattoo was on her method to Paris to attend a guide launch and images exhibition. 

“I was scheduled to travel from Delhi to Paris today for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. Despite procuring a French visa, I was stopped at the immigration desk at Delhi airport,” she stated in her tweet.

“I was not give any reason but told I would not be able to travel internationally,” she added.

A resident of Srinagar, she is a post-graduate in Convergent Journalism from the Central University of Kashmir. Her work concentrates on depicting the stress between the seeming ordinariness of life and the stark symbols of a menacing militarized milieu of Kashmir. Her work has been revealed in newspapers and magazines world wide and has been screened and exhibited in varied exhibitions and festivals. She presently contributes to Reuters as a Multimedia Journalist.