While travel will always be the preferred way to delve into a new culture, photography is another passport to people doing nothing but living. Photography serves our love for discovering new cultures which commonly precedes our desire to travel. The stimulating fascination with other people, their living conditions, neighbourhoods and Continue Reading
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What Everyday Life means, and The Challenges of Photo Documentary: By Kigozi Alvin
What is Documentary photography if not a broad form of fine art photography that can be fleshed out in diverse ways. It is closely related to street photography and photojournalism, but not really. One is focused on shedding light on a compound social issue and the other doesn’t. Let’s say Continue Reading
When Communities Get Together – Solving A Water Crisis: Kavita Ndolo
Much of Africa has already warmed by more than 1 °C, being the most reason for the very hot days. The subject of Climate Change is a priority today and we are at a defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten progressive agriculture to rising sea levels that increase Continue Reading
A Passport to People doing nothing but living: with Pascal Mrema
Photography lets you find yourself and is a passport to people, places and possibilities. Random Photo Journal is fascinated by everyday culture, from how people look to their personalities, individual character traits and, in this interview, we spoke to Pascal Mrema, a street photographer based in Mombasa, Kenya about his Continue Reading
Thousands of kilometres of the purest in this world: By Cristóbal Masera Möller
It is pretty hard to revive an adventure in words, so many situations and emotions. These photographs are a short summary of my last trip to Africa wherein less than 3 months we crossed part of southern and east Africa. It was my third time on the continent and it Continue Reading
THROUGH OUR EYES – By Lloyd Kofi Foster
A few years ago, Ghanaian-American photographer Lloyd Kofi Foster, due to personal reasons, set out to traverse and document the daily lives and situations in Africa. During his journey, he stumbled upon one of Africa biggest treasures: its sun-absorbed, companionable children. This interview features a photo series by Lloyd Kofi Continue Reading
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COLORS, AURAS AND EXPERIENCES – By Ethel Tawe
Colours are an essential part of the composition in photography and there is a real lack of understanding when it comes to colour. Generally, people don’t realize how important it is and it seems to be the case even with some of the more experienced visual artists out there in Continue Reading
EVERY PHOTO HAS A STORY BEHIND IT – By Marylin Igboke, for Jotham Odefa Igboke
One day 14-year-old Nigerian-Indonesian Marylin Igboke stumbles on her father’s extensive photography archive while searching through his old computer hard drives, on realizing the importance of his documentations she decides to retouch the photos and share them because, according to her, her father, Jotham Odefa Igboke, is an accidental photographer Continue Reading
PHOTOGRAPHING SPACES IN “MUFOMBI” MUFAKOSE – By Jana Mhlaba
Welcome to Mufakose, one of Harare’s oldest suburbs. There anything goes. Popularly known as “Mufombi” this replete suburbia between Marimba and Crowborough North residential areas is home to thousands of the capital’s population. The city was first called Salisbury, the capital of the country that was then called Rhodesia. In Continue Reading
THE ENERGETIC ATMOSPHERE OF YORUBALAND – By Anthony Shintai
Some anthropologists believe the Yoruba religion has been practised as far back as eight thousand years making it truly primal and aboriginal – to put this into perspective Christianity has said to be around for only two thousand years. The Yoruba indigenous beliefs see the world as a product of Continue Reading