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Charlotte Yonga

July 27, 2019
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Objects of Reimiscence

By Francis Annagu | Impact Photography | No Comments
One of South Africa’s finest and eclectic photographers, Graeme Williams, grew up in the suburbs of Cape Town in the 60s and 70s, during the cloudy days of apartheid in...
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May 6, 2019
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Kole-Kole (Earth Pushers)

By Francis Annagu | Impact Photography | No Comments
I, Francis, have been working with documentary photographer, Christopher Onah since November 2018, on his ongoing project, Kole-Kole (Earth Pushers). The word "Kole-Kole" means truck pushers in the Yoruba language....
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March 27, 2019
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Charlotte Yonga

By Francis Annagu | Impact Photography | No Comments
     Bito Ba Mundi and Charlotte's Luscent Lens Charlotte Yonga was one of the photographers featured at the 9th Edition of the LagosPhoto Festival. Born in 1985 in Paris, the...
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November 16, 2018
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Karl Ohiri

By Francis Annagu | Impact Photography | No Comments
                     Karl's Culture and Colours Karl Ohiri is a British-Nigerian artist using photography, archives, and the everyday objects to tell his story, especially as a young man who grew up...
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July 19, 2018
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Les Rencontres d’Arles

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Photography | No Comments
Recently the Impact Journey team travelled to the south of France to attend the opening week of the renowned photography event Les Rencontres d’Arles. Known as the “Venice Biennale of...
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July 19, 2018
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Laura Andalou

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Photography | No Comments
With distinctive and inviting light, Laura Andalou’s photographs lead the viewer into the world of those whose stories she wants to share. We met up recently in her eclectic Amsterdam...
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June 12, 2018
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Solar Mamas

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Are women better at working and pulling themselves out of poverty? This is one of the questions asked by ‘Why Poverty’, a collection of documentaries and short films by different...
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June 9, 2018
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A Plastic Ocean

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Disastrous 1950s marketing: The oxymoron of ‘throw-away’ plastics I consider myself to be a rather conscientious human when it comes to plastic. I recycle (most of the time), avoid single...
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June 5, 2018
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Biko Wesa

By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Photography | No Comments
When I first saw Toby ‘Biko’ Wesa’s work I was immediately captured by the depth and vibrancy in his work, both in the colour and in his connection with those...
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April 18, 2018
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Rethinking (Post-) Colonial Malinese Society

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Photography | No Comments
Through the Lens of Seydou Keïta’s Bamako Portraits Acknowledged by many as ‘the father of African photography’, Foam Fotografiemuseum’s new exhibition of Seydou Keïta’s (b. 1921, Bamako - d. 2001,...
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April 4, 2018
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The Machinists

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Documentary | No Comments
‘The Machinists’ is a 2010 British documentary which follows the daily lives of workers who make clothes for popular high street brands like Primark, H&M and Zara in the garment factories of...
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March 28, 2018
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When Two Worlds Collide

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | Impact Documentary | No Comments
A local conflict about infringement of indigenous rights in Peru that escalates into a worldwide environmental warning Set over several years, Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta and Mathew Orzel’s award winning ‘When...
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March 20, 2018
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A Journey to Leiden

By Tatjana Bladt Cohen | A Recap with James Barnor | No Comments
As the early morning sun came out over Amsterdam, the team at Impact Journey took a train to Leiden. Coffee in hand, we were excited for a research trip and...
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November 19, 2017
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Salam Neighbor

By Felicie Crijns | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Zach and Chris are the first ever filmmakers allowed to register a tent and stay in one of United Nations' refugee camps, Za'atari, just a couple of kilometers away from...
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September 19, 2017
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HUMAN

By Esther Boer | Impact Documentary | No Comments
A beautiful account of what it means to be human in all its forms, that is what the documentary HUMAN gives us. Director Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on a journey...
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August 24, 2017
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Ruth McDowall

By Malou Sniedt | Impact Photography | No Comments
In 2008 photographer Ruth McDowall moved to Nigeria to work with at risk youth in the city Jos. At that time the city was passing through religious and ethnic conflict....
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July 1, 2017
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Steven Chikosi

By Malou Sniedt | Impact Photography | No Comments
Photographer and videographer Steven Chikosi has been named one of the top five African photographers you should follow on Instagram, and for good reasons. Through his stunning photography, Steven tells...
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May 25, 2017
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Nathan Siegel

By Malou Sniedt | Impact Photography | No Comments
Photographer Nathan Siegel is exploring social and environmental issues in East-Africa. Nathan started with photography after working as a writer for a few years because he wanted a change in...
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April 18, 2017
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Arati Kumar-Rao

By Malou Sniedt | Impact Photography | No Comments
Environmental photographer and writer Arati Kumar-Rao documents the slow violence of ecological degradation and climate change on ecosystems and livelihoods along South Asia's rivers. Traveling across the Indian sub-continent, she...
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November 10, 2016
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Shawn Heinrichs

By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Photography | No Comments
Shawn Heinrichs is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and marine conservationist, an independent filmmaker and founder of Blue Sphere Media. I admire his passion, perseverence and his drive for positive change...
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October 4, 2016
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Meeting James’ (archive) in London

By Steyn Hoogakker | A Recap with James Barnor | No Comments
We had been excited for over a month to visit our partner in crime, James, in his hometown London. Here we planned some activities for leisure, but were primarily considered...
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September 14, 2016
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Cowspiracy

By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Having watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Trugh, Kip felt the need to change his personal lifestyle into a sustainable living. After years of changing certain aspects of his life, he coincidentally...
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August 7, 2016
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Sharkwater

By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Sharkwater is an impressive documentary, linking imaging in media to the (lack and need of) conservation of marine life, in specific the shark population. It is the winner of more...
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March 12, 2016
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Digging into the African Studies Centre’s Archive

By Claire Hoogakker | A Recap with James Barnor | No Comments
Another activity planned for James’ second visit was a visit to the African Studies Centre in Leiden, which James was looking forward to for days, if not years. The African...
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March 11, 2016
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Visiting the Tropenmuseum in the Netherlands

By Claire Hoogakker | A Recap with James Barnor | No Comments
Last March 2016, James Barnor came to Amsterdam for the second time last year. Before that, we spoke over Skype many times together with my brother Steyn, to talk about...
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March 10, 2016
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The Salt of the Earth

By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Documentary, Impact Photography | No Comments
That moment when you are so mesmerized and just can't comprehend what you've just seen.. still searching for words, that was 'Salt of the Earth' for me. The Academy Award...
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February 23, 2016
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By Steyn Hoogakker | Impact Documentary | No Comments
Never before 2009 I saw such an amazing aerial footage, combined with a warm yet tough female voice - whom happened to be Glenn Close. No wonder it took the director...
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February 2, 2016
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Meeting James Barnor at FOAM

By Claire Hoogakker | A Recap with James Barnor | No Comments
At 12 June 2015, the exhibition ‘Swinging Sixties London – Photography in the Capital of Cool’ opened at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. At the time, I was doing a Communication and...
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