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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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