At first glance, her studies in languages and foreign civilizations (Spanish, in particular) wouldn't seem to predispose her to photography, unless, perhaps, her motivation was already being outlined in the background: a certain curiosity and a desire to understand. After her first photo-reportage in Cuba (done "before people started talking about it", because she "felt that it was going to go up in smoke"), Sarah continued on her path, certain now that "it was the right one". Havana, India, Bosnia Herzegovina: as she met more people, a theme, or rather an "issue", gradually emerged in her reporting – women who are widowed. What becomes of them when they find themselves without a husband, without support, and the cultural context of their country dooms them to dishonour and discrimination? After two reportages entitled L'exil des veuves blanches en Inde (The Exile of White Widows in India) and Les âmes fêlées de Srebrenica (The Damaged Souls of Srebrenica), Sarah Caron chose to travel to Cameroon for her next project. Her plan was to spend several weeks following the often very long and cruel widowhood rites inflicted on women. But it was not just the dramas she witnessed, but above all how the women rebuilt their lives that Sarah wanted to show: their ability to act and the resources they put in place to survive and overcome the trauma. No doubt other projects will follow, in other countries. This is Sarah's preferred approach:  finding a theme to which she can commit over the long term, or rather letting her travels find it for her by chance, and then immersing herself in it for a time. A time whose "price" she knows and which she is happy to be able to give herself as a result of her talent grant from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation.

Achievements since winning the grant
2001: Sarah produced a story on the pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Lazarus in Cuba for Géo.
2002: She received the Chroniques Nomades Award at the Honfleur Festival and was invited to the Singapore Month of Photography by Paris City Hall. In the same year, she was awarded a grant by Afaa (Association française pour l’action artistique - French Association for Art as Social Action) for a reportage on memory in Cambodia. The project for which she was awarded the Foundation's grant, The Widows of Cameroon, was published in Elle and exhibited at Visa pour l’image. Les Routes de l’espoir, a reportage on illegal immigrants in Africa, was published in Géo.
2003: Her reportage on widowhood ceremonies was exhibited at the Espace Dupont-Bastille.
2004: She took part in Regards sur 10 nouvelles capitales européennes (Views of 10 New European Capitals) on the Champs-Elysées.
2005: She published L’Odyssée moderne with Images en manœuvre, a piece of work on illegal immigration between the Sahara and Niger, which was exhibited on the railings of the Luxembourg gardens in Paris as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Reporters without Borders.
2006: Patrick Chauvel, who has already directed two films on photography in the field, Rapporteur de guerre and Trompe l'œil, filmed an hour-long documentary on Sarah Caron.
In November 2007, Sarah Caron produced an exclusive portrait of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto in the residence where she was under house arrest, for Time Magazine. 

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