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South Sudan has always had a special place in my heart in relation to my photography career. When I resigned from my first job and decided to pursue photography, my first foreign assignment was to cover the elections in South Sudan. I remember I almost didn’t make it because I lacked sufficient funds and […]
"The only weapon that we have in our hands…is the weapon of protest. That’s all. " – Martin Luther King Jr On 25th November 2014, protesters from all walks of life gathered outside President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Harambe House office. Their mission, to protest the state of insecurity in Kenya. The call to protest, made […]
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” – John F. Kennedy Recently, I was out on a humanitarian assessment mission to Marka; a town in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia. The assignment entailed accompanying officials from various humanitarian organizations who were evaluating the humanitarian situation on […]
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey During war or conflict the one group of society that experiences insurmountable torment and suffering is children. If they are not kidnapped and used as child soldiers or sex slaves by militias and rebels, they end up in camps, separated from […]
“We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.” – Pico Lyer As a photographer, every once in a while an assignment comes along where the client gives you free reign on the creative post-production output that you deliver. For humanitarian photographers, such assignments […]
“Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.” – Nelson Mandela No one could have put it better than the late great legend, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Despite most sports pitting one team against another, sportsmanship unites people […]
This is a blog of many firsts. My first blog in 2014, my first time to blog about this very serious issue that is affecting women and also the first blog without a quote. Sometimes as a photographer you’ll undertake assignments that are very exciting, some will be very boring and then there are others […]
" There’s no hope without endeavour. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to get that we do need to have friends. " Aung San Suu Ky The one thing that I have learnt thus far as a freelancer is the importance […]
" We must accept finite disappointment, but NEVER lose infinite hope. " – Martin Luther King Jr. Take a moment and imagine this, You wake up one morning and your mother is nowhere to be seen. In the dead of night, she packed and left. Your sole provider. Your closest confident, friend and only […]
" I feel the need…the need for speed. " – Maveric (Top Gun 1989) Last Friday, 5th July 2013, the rally came to town. Baaaaaack in the day, the rally used to fall over the Easter weekend and boy would we have a blast watching the greats battle it out. A true test of […]