Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
Posted in May 2011 on May 6th, 2011
I have been in Amsterdam since Tuesday in meetings with the partners in the Twenty Ten project evaluating the project and the lessons we learnt out of it. Each of the partners, World Press Photo, lokaalmondiaal and ourselves, prepared reports and we had an independent evaluator sharing the results of her survey which looked specifically […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2010
One of Africa Media Online’s contributing photographers, Oupa Nkosi, has been hailed by one of the world’s most respected photo bloggers – John Edwin Mason – for his award winning photo story entitled “Black Diamonds”. The photo story was produced as part of the Twenty Ten project and won an award recently at the Bonani […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2010
This slide show wrap-up of content produced by our Twenty Ten project is featured on the M&G Online.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2010
I was down in Cape Town last month for the installation of “Twenty Ten on the Road” the exhibition from the Twenty Ten project. The Twenty Ten project has been a partnership between World Press Photo, FreeVoice, Africa Media Online and lokaalmondiaal and funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The project enables over 120 journalists […]
Posted in Twenty Ten progress on May 7th, 2010
Lusaka, Zambia As part of the Twenty Ten project, World Press Photo hosted two multimedia workshops in 2010, one in Johannesburg, South Africa, and one in Lusaka, Zambia. These were the first two multimedia workshops run by World Press Photo in its 55 year history, reflecting the shift taking place in photojournalism globally with the […]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Dream Team on Feb 23rd, 2010
Here is the third post featuring one of our print journalists in our series highlighting some of the content produced by individual members of the newly selected Dream Team. You can go directly to Africa Media Online to view the full articles and all images and gain publishing rights to them. The ‘Allstar’ and ‘Dream Team’ […]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Dream Team on Feb 21st, 2010
Here is the second post featuring one of our print journalists in our series highlighting some of the content produced by individual members of the newly selected Dream Team. You can go directly to Africa Media Online to view the full articles and all images and gain publishing rights to them. The ‘Allstar’ and ‘Dream Team’ […]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Dream Team on Feb 18th, 2010
Here is the first post featuring some of our print journalists, the previous four entries featured the works of photo-journalists, in our series highlighting some of the content produced by individual members of the newly selected Dream Team. You can go directly to Africa Media Online to view the full articles and all images and gain […]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Dream Team on Feb 15th, 2010
Here is the fourth post in our series highlighting some of the content produced by individual members of the newly selected Dream Team. You can go directly to Africa Media Online to view the full articles and all images and gain publishing rights to them. The ‘Allstar’ and ‘Dream Team’ journalists of the Twenty Ten Project […]
Posted in African stories worth telling, Dream Team on Feb 13th, 2010
Here is the third post in our series highlighting some of the content produced by individual members of the newly selected Dream Team. You can go directly to Africa Media Online to view the full articles and all images and gain publishing rights to them. The ‘Allstar’ and ‘Dream Team’ journalists of the Twenty Ten Project […]