National Geographic’s “Women of Vision” – A New Generation of Female Photojournalists

Some of the most powerful narratives of the past decade have been produced by a forward-thinking generation of women photojournalists as different as the places and the subjects they have covered. National Geographic’s “Women of Vision” exhibit features the work of 11 photographers and is on display at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta until January 3, 2016.

Nujood Ali stunned the world in 2008 by obtaining a divorce at age 10 in Yemen, striking a blow against forced marriage. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/National Geographic)

A lieutenant in an elite female counterterrorism unit patrols the women’s barracks in Yemen, 2012. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/National Geographic)

Women, mostly widows, train for police force jobs at a firing range near Kabul, 2010. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/National Geographic)

Prostitutes, who are known as cage girls and are often s*x slaves, display themselves on a Mumbai street, 2002. (Photo by Jodi Cobb/National Geographic)

A woman in Florence, Italy, savors the message on a large greeting card, 2003. (Photo by Jodi Cobb/National Geographic)

Uighurs socialize at their own nightclubs, in 2009, in Hotan, a Uighur town with a rising Han Chinese population. (Photo by Carolyn Drake/National Geographic)

To guide their decision-making, the Kyrgyz often seek out shamans to read their fortune with cards in Mongolia, 2010. (Photo by Carolyn Drake/National Geographic)

Getting her tongue pierced was “exciting and scary” says a teen who succumbed to pressure from her best friend, in Austin, Texas, 2010. (Photo by Kitra Cahana/National Geographic)

Shaking seats and wind machines thrill moviegoers during a 3-D film at a theater closed during the war in Baghdad, 2010. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/National Geographic)

Longtime Ocean Grove visitors take a dip in the roiling Atlantic surf in New Jersey in 2003. (Photo by Amy Toensing/National Geographic)

A farmer and his children play in a water-starved area where his livestock once grazed in Australia, 2008. (Photo by Amy Toensing/National Geographic)

A leopard’s spotted coat provides camouflage in the dense forest in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, circa 2004-2005. (Photo by Beverly Joubert/National Geographic)

In a hunting game with her mother, a young leopard leaps through tall grass on the Okavango Delta Chiefs Islands, Botswana, 2004. (Photo by Beverly Joubert/National Geographic)

Teepee-style structures are common in Sami villages in Norway, where they are often used to smoke reindeer meat, in 2011. (Photo by Erika Larsen/National Geographic)

A Sami in Sweden mourns the loss of two reindeer that starved after locking horns in a fight for dominance, 2011. (Photo by Erika Larsen/National Geographic)