We are thrilled to announce the newest members of Everyday Africa!
Following an open call that attracted hundreds of applications, a committee comprised of Everyday Africa contributors selected ten photographers (five women and five men) who bring extraordinary talent and vision to our growing community. They join the existing cohort of 34 Everyday Africa photographers and represent an expansion of our coverage of the continent, adding Morocco, Algeria, Libya, South Sudan, and Angola to our list of countries.
Abdurrauf Ben Madi | Bullen Chol | Esther Ruth Mbabazi | Esther N’sapu | Fethi Sahraoui
Gulshan Khan | Mauro Sérgio | Miora Rajaonary | Nada Harib | Yoriyas Alaoui Ismaili
We’re also excited to announce that three new photographers will be contributing to Everyday Africa through our partners at Everyday Egypt:
Fatmah Fahmy | Sabry Khaled | Salih Basheer
and three new photographers through our partners at Everyday Zimbabwe:
Chinula Mandla | Jekesai Njikizana | Steven Chikosi
Meet all of our new contributors below! Congratulations, new members — welcome to Everyday Africa!
Special thanks to PhotoWings, as always, for their support, and to the African Photojournalism Database, our partner program with the World Press Photo Foundation.
EVERYDAY AFRICA:
ABDURRAUF BEN MADI
Abdurrauf Ben Madi is a freelance documentary photographer based in Libya. Born in Tripoli in 1976, he graduated from the Arts and Media University of Tripoli. His work has exhibited in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Germany, and the UK.
BULLEN CHOL
Bullen Chol (Akuot Chol Mayak) is an independent photographer and filmmaker dedicated to documenting social and political issues in South Sudan. He contributes to various newspapers and news agencies around the world.
ESTHER RUTH MBABAZI
Esther Ruth Mbabazi is a documentary photographer based in Kampala, Uganda. Her work explores changing conditions on the African continent, with a focus on the social, economic, physical, and emotional aspects of daily life. She is a 2018-2020 VII Photo Agency Mentee and was recently named a National Geographic Explorer. She is a 2017 Magnum Foundation Photography & Social Justice Fellow. Esther’s works have been published in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, and her work has been commissioned by a variety of NGOs and international organizations.
ESTHER N’SAPU
Esther N'sapu is a journalist based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She began her work by covering the conflicts that rocked her home city, Goma, and more broadly her country and the Great Lakes region of Africa. Through her photography, she wants to bring the world to see her region in a new way, not as a place of conflict but rather a land where there is love and hope.
FETHI SAHRAOUI
Fethi Sahraoui is an Algerian documentary photographer. His work has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others, and has been shown by institutions including The Arab World Institute. He is a member of the 220Collective, a family of five photographers who are based in various parts of Algeria and collaborate on different projects. He is a recent graduate of the University of Mascara, where he studied the work of black American photographers during the American civil rights movement.
GULSHAN KHAN
Gulshan Khan is an independent editorial and documentary photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently a stringer for Agence France Presse (AFP). She has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Le Monde, among others, and has worked with various NGOs including UNFPA and The African Women’s Development Fund. A graduate of the Market Photo Workshop, she is also member of Native Agency and WomenPhotograph. In 2018 she was one of six photographers selected for the World Press Photo 6x6 Talent Program, Africa Edition and is a 2019 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee.
MAURO SERGIO
Angolan photographer Mauro Sérgio was originally an electric engineer, until he discovered a love for photography in 2012. The goal of all of his photographic works is to raise awareness among young people about the culture, people, and nature of Angola. In 2017, Mauro was named a National Geographic Explorer. He is currently documenting the lives of traditional healers in Angola.
MIORA RAJAONARY
Miora Rajaonary is a documentary photographer born and raised in Madagascar, currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through her work, she focuses on social issues and identities in contemporary Africa. Miora was named one of the “10 emerging photographers of color to watch” in January 2018 by i-D magazine, was one of four winners of the inaugural Getty + Array Grant in July 2018, and won First Prize in the AddisFotoFest Portfolio Review in December 2018. She was a World Press Photo Masterclass East Africa participant and one of the inaugural mentees in both the WomenPhotograph mentorship program and The Native and Everyday Projects Mentorship Program.
NADA HARIB
Nada Harib is a freelance photographer based in Tripoli, Libya. Her work has exhibited in Tripoli and Vienna, and she has been published in Vogue Italia and World Press Photo’s Witness, among others.
YORIYAS ALAOUI ISMAILI
Yoriyas Alaoui Ismaili is a Casablanca-based photographer and performance artist. His work has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, Vogue, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, among many others. He has received several grants and awards, including the 7th Contemporary African Photography Prize and the "Les Amis de l'Institute du Monde Arabe" for Contemporary Arab Creation award. He has been exhibited across the world, including HERMÈS Foundation Paris, History Miami Museum, Festival Contemporary Art Basel, and 1-54 African Art Fair x Hassan Hajjaj Marrakech.
FATMAH FAHMY
Fatmah Fahmy is an Egyptian photographer born in 1991 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She obtained a BA degree in Chemical Engineering from Cairo University in 2013, and after graduation began to carry a camera on the streets of Egypt to capture images of daily life in her home country. She was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart masterclass 2018. She has exhibited her work in the Xposure International Photography Festival in the UAE and the Photographic Angel Exhibition in the UK, among others.
SABRY KHALED
Sabry Khaled is a freelance documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Cairo, Egypt. He has exhibited and published in Egypt and abroad. He spent 5 years in dentistry school before shifting careers; he has worked as a photographer for over a decade, focusing on social issues and personal projects. Khaled teaches photography at the Photopia Photo School in Cairo.
SALIH BASHEER
Originally from Omdurman, Sudan, Salih Bashir is a photographer living and working in Cairo, Egypt. He moved to Cairo in 2013 and received his Bachelor Degree in Geography from Cairo University in 2017. Salih’s work aims to challenge some of the stereotypes and judgments people make about others, interconnected with his personal experience as a black Sudanese living in Egypt for the past five years who is often stereotyped himself. His work has exhibited in the 2018 AddisFotoFest in Ethiopia and the 2019 Odesa Photo Days in Ukraine.
CHINULA MANDLA
Chinula Mandla is a freelance photographer and filmmaker based in Zimbabwe. He specializes in photojournalism, portraiture and documentary film. He also researches and writes about about visual storytelling and the technology of image making.
JEKESAI NJIKIZANA
Jekesai Njikizana is a freelance photojournalist who has worked professionally in Zimbabwe for the last 15 years. A regular contributor to AFP, his work has been featured in many of the world’s leading news publications, including The Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR, Buzzfeed News, and The New York Times, among others, and has made the AFP Photo of the Year list. Born before the country's independence from colonial rule in 1980, Jekesai has grown with the nation of Zimbabwe from the euphoria of freedom and the harmony of reconciliation and racial integration through the conflicts of the land reforms and the tempests of hyper inflation.
STEVEN CHIKOSI
Steven Chikosi is a documentary photographer and videographer based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Steven is on a mission to tell stories of the daily life of Africans. In 2015 Steven was featured on CNN African Voices for his photography work. He was also listed by ONE.org as one of the top photographers to follow from Africa. Locally, Steven has taken part in Gwanza & ZAFP exhibitions and a joint exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Steven’s work has been published in many outlets including The New York Times, Foreign Policy, CNN, BBC, The African Lens, and many others.