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I am a documentary photographer, currently based in Berlin, Germany. My works deal mostly with subjects and issues that involve the society and human relationships, focused on marginalized groups in East Africa that are often overlooked. Since 2010, I have worked to document consequences of poverty and social discrimination for individuals. This includes the work “I’m still with you”, about the Memory Books in Uganda, written by HIV positive parents, which evolved in collaboration with NACWOLA (National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS). Since 2010, I have been documenting the influence of breakdance and Hip Hop for socially disadvantaged young people in Uganda. Breakdance Project Uganda (BPU), a youth centered, grass roots organization, uses elements of Hip Hop culture to engage and unite young people and provide them with skills and confidence to become active, socially conscious individuals. In 2011, I documented individual stories of immigration on behalf of the Goethe Institut, all published in a book with the title “Im Kopf waren wir schon in Deutschland / In our minds, we were already in Germany“. In March 2014 I started the longterm project “Null and Void”, documenting the impact of Ugandas Anti-Homosexuality Law. I aim to point to issues, that are rarely told, by illustrating individual stories through photography and text. My work is divided between commissioned assignments and self assigned photographic documentation.
I'm a British freelance photojournalist, based in Istanbul, Turkey. My personal work often focuses on the intersection of identity, migration, social and political actions, and the ramifications of those for individuals. My work often tries to stretch the narrow definition of photojournalism, using conceptual approaches to visualise and convey issues to the viewer. A vast chunk of my work has focused on issues connected with the theme and meaning of 'home' - the loss of home, the search for home, and the forming of a new home. Regularly covering feature stories and portrait assignments in Turkey, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Europe, for a range of international newspapers, magazines, and online news media. I'm a National Geographic Explorer, having receiving support for two projects from the Nat Geo Society since 2018. My first long-term project Kütmaan (started in 2010) tells the stories of LGBTI asylum seekers, refugees, and IDPs in and from the Middle East, forced to flee their countries and lives for reasons connected with their sexuality and/or gender identity. This work led to my latest ongoing body of personal work called Gayropa - a visual documentation on queer migration to Europe. Based in Istanbul, Turkey since early 2012, but traveling often. Began my career freelancing across South & Central Asia 2005-2010.
Meridith Kohut (b.1983, USA) is an American photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela, where she has worked covering Latin America for the foreign press since 2007. For the past three years, she has spent nearly every day documenting the economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela – photographing thousands waiting in breadlines, patients dying from medicine shortages in collapsed public hospitals, people clashing with security forces in violent, anti-government street protests, laboring in illegal gold mines and getting smuggled alongside cocaine out of the country in small boats. Her work has resulted in dozens of front-page stories published in The New York Times, and is widely recognized as the largest and most comprehensive photographic archive of the crisis made by a single photographer. Her Venezuela crisis work has been recognized by The Overseas Press Club, The George Polk Journalism Awards and Pictures of The Year International. Her 5-month investigation and photo essay that exposed that hundreds of children had died from severe child malnutrition in public hospitals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2018. She earned a Courage in Journalism Award in 2018 from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Kohut has also produced in-depth photo essays about the rise and fall of Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution in Venezuela, the drug trade in Bolivia, Cuba's transition, gang violence in El Salvador, refugee and migration issues in Central America, labor rights and cholera outbreaks in Haiti, prostitution in Colombia, illegal gold mines and human rights abuses in Venezuela, and prison overcrowding in El Salvador, among others. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times. Her photographs have also been published by National Geographic, Leica, TIME Magazine, National Public Radio, The Washington Post Magazine and Der Spiegel. They have been exhibited at Visa pour L'Image, Sotheby’s London, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Columbia University, The Leica Gallery Salzburg & Photoville in Brooklyn, New York. Kohut is a graduate of the University of Texas' School of Journalism, the 2007 Eddie Adams Workshop and the 2015 World Press Photo Masterclass in Latin America. She is available for assignments throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and the USA.
Per-Anders Pettersson is a Swedish photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. During his 30-year long career, Pettersson has covered a wide range of international news events, including the first Gulf War, democracy in South Africa starting with the election campaign in 1994, as well as conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Haiti. He has worked in over forty African countries, covering stories on hunger in Ethiopia, civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana and South Africa. Mr. Pettersson has worked in over one hundred countries on assignment for clients worldwide. His pictures have won praise and awards from, among others, World Press Photo, PDN, POY, NPPA, CARE, CHIPP, Unicef Photo of the Year, American Photography and Commarts. He has exhibited several times at Visa pour l’Image Perpignan, as well as at other festivals and galleries, such as Somerset House in London. In September 2013, his first book was published, Rainbow Transit, a look at democracy in South Africa. African Catwalk, a look at the fashion industry in Africa, was published in 2016.
I've worked in 50 countries across six continents. My photographic reporting has been published in National Geographic, Smithsonian, GEO, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Stern Magazine, and Terra Mater. Attending the Eddie Adams Workshop in 1998 marked the start of my career, and the following year I was nominated for the World Press Photo / Joop Swart Masterclass. Since then, professional organizations have recognized my work with awards, such as Pictures of the Year (POYi), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Communication Arts, American Photography, Px3, among others. Along the way, I've also served on the juries of the Nikon photo contest, the Andrei Stenin Photo Competition, the Harry Chapin Media Awards and worked as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and at the International Center of Photography.
Born in Botswana, in a rural hospital his dad likes to remind him only charged them 17 pula for the privilege, Tobin began his life in the small dusty village of Gumare on the banks of the Okovango Delta. It wasn’t too long though, before his family moved on, this time to the the capital city of Lilongwe in Malawi. It was here Tobin spent the majority of his childhood, riding his bike around town, fighting with his siblings, and generally learning how to be a kid. Finally, when he was 10 his family once again moved up the African continent, this time to Kenya - where Tobin finished up high school. Having photographed throughout Africa, and sometimes further afield, for the last decade - through his work Tobin has attempted to not only cover the breadth of the continent, but also the diversity within it. This has included stories on Somalia’s fight against Al Shabab and the country’s emergence from more than 20 years of civil war, to transgender issues, and the intersection of modern religion with traditional healing practices in slums. Tobin holds a bachelor’s degree in International Development, with minors in Economics and Political Science, from McGill University and a Master’s degree in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster. Today he lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where he runs the photo collective NonAligned and works as a freelance photographer and videographer.