Questioning What Comfort Is?

21Jun

It started as a politically inspired project and became a thought provoking statement that questions individual inner perspectives. Ndasuunje Papa Shikongeni  is about to open his first photographic exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia, titled ‘Inspiration through the lens – Home is where the heart belongs’. The images, stirring and beautiful, are contradictory; warm yet chilling. The story …

Turning a Lens on Truth

07Sep

“When covering the Mozambique floods in 2001 we brought worldwide attention and in the process many countless lives have been saved. My coverage stopped a small scale war in DRC. I managed to get into the besieged town of Bunia in 2003 and started photographing the atrocities. A week later the French send special forces in direct reaction to the …