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Sanna Irshad Mattoo Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 14, 2026 • 2 min read

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Date of birth1994

Age28 (as of 2022)

BirthplaceSrinagar, Jammu and Kashmir

ProfessionPhotojournalist, Documentary Photographer, Multimedia Journalist

NationalityIndian

Marital statusUnmarried

Sanna Irshad Mattoo Biography

Sanna Irshad Mattoo is an Indian photojournalist and documentary photographer from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. A multimedia journalist with Reuters, she’s

Early life and background

Sanna Irshad Mattoo was born in 1994 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Raised in the region she continues to live and work there, drawing on personal experience to inform her visual reporting. She completed higher studies at the Central University of Kashmir and holds a master’s degree in Convergent Journalism.

Career

Mattoo has built a career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer focused on the lived realities of her community. She works as a multimedia journalist for Reuters, producing photographic and documentary work that has appeared in a range of publications and been shown in exhibitions and festivals.

Her reporting has often addressed the tensions between local civilians and security forces in Kashmir. In 2021 she was selected as one of the Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Fellows, a program that supports photographers working on human-rights and social-justice issues.

In 2022 Mattoo was one of the Reuters photographers awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. The prize recognized collaborative coverage produced during the Covid-19 pandemic and was shared with colleagues Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave, and Danish Siddiqui.

Public profile

Mattoo’s images and projects have been published internationally and exhibited in different forums. Her work centers on documentary storytelling and visual testimony, often spotlighting communities affected by conflict and public-health crises.

She is identified publicly as a Muslim and is unmarried. Physical details listed in public profiles note her height as approximately 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) with black hair and black eyes.

Latest updates

In October 2022, while preparing to travel to New York to receive the Pulitzer Prize, Mattoo reported that she was prevented from departing India at a Delhi airport despite holding a valid US visa and travel ticket. Reports indicate this was not the first time she had been stopped from international travel; an earlier incident occurred when she was due to travel to Paris for a book launch and photography exhibition. The travel incidents prompted public comment from the Press Club of India, which expressed disappointment and called on authorities to clarify the situation.

Beyond awards and travel-related events, Mattoo continues to produce documentary photography and multimedia reporting from Srinagar, maintaining a public presence through published work and exhibitions.

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Recent Work

Multimedia reporting and photography for Reuters

Documentary and feature photography focused on Kashmir and Covid-19 coverage; member of the Reuters team awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

2022
Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship

Selected as one of the fellowship recipients to support work at the intersection of photography and social justice.

2021
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Career Highlights

  1. Multimedia journalist at Reuters
  2. Selected as a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow (2021)
  3. Co-recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
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