Photojournalist Kiana Hayeri on moving to Canada from Iran as a teenager, how photography helped her bridge the culture and language gap, gender apartheid, winning awards, Afghanistan, goal setting and the dangers of ‘dilettante hit and run journalism’.

American photographer Diana Matar on her brush with Manuel Noriega, photographing absence, her latest book My America, why she shot the work on an iPhone, whether photographs can bear the burden of history, how she has intermalised a European sense of America, and how an errand to buy a lightbulb...