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Paul Botes
Photographer
Picture Editor for The Mail & Guardian

Career History Picture Editor - The Continent 2020 - Present Picture Editor Mail & Guardian 2006 - Present Lecturer/ Assessor Market Photo Workshop 2010 - Present Judge Uganda Press Photo Award(UPPA) - 2019 - Present Freelance Photographer -... read on

Sarah Gilbert

The Guardian

Sarah Gilbert is features picture editor for the Guardian with over 20 years’ experience as an editor. Previous roles have included work for book and magazine publishers, a picture editor at Conde Nast, and several years in the US as the... read on

Yasuyoshi Chiba
Chief Photographer for East Africa and Indian Ocean
Agence France-Presse’s (AFP)

Yasuyoshi Chiba is AFP Chief Photographer currently based in Nairobi, Kenya.  He started working as a staff photographer for Japan’s national newspaper Asahi Shimbun. In 2007, he moved to Kenya as a freelancer and joined AFP as a staff... read on

Liz Ikiriko
Artist and Curator


Liz Ikiriko is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based, Nigerian Canadian artist and curator. Her role as an educator, maker, and mother informs her practice, which focuses on African and diasporic narratives. Through collaboration and research, she supports and... read on

Martin Kharumwa

Stella Nantongo
Programme Coordinator
Uganda Press Photo Awards / UPPA

Stella Nantongo is the Programme Coordinator at the Uganda Press Photo Award . A photography enthusiast with a mostly forgotten degree in IT, Stella is passionate about ways in which photographic education sparks creativity. When she’s not... read on