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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...