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
JOURNAL PROJECT
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
HOMEGOING AND FAMILIAR JUXTAPOSITIONS – By AMINA OSMANU
Random Photo Journal created a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories and we reached out to frequent travellers around the African continent and asked them to share a series of photos that represent a memory about a place they visited, currently or in the past, attached with a story that led Continue Reading
“FADY KAMBANA”: THE CURSE OF TWINS – By CHRISTIAN SANNA
Random Photo Journal started a Journal Project focused on African Unification through collective memories… For the series, we spoke to Christian Sanna a Malagasy-Italian contemporary photographer focusing on personal and social histories in Madagascar. “Fady Kambana” is a series of family portraits taken in the South-East of Madagascar. This photographic exhibition casts a unique look at Continue Reading