Reviewing The Bayimba Photography Workshop
It has been over a month since I taught the Bayimba photography workshop in Katanga, a local slum neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. Aside from successfully completing the workshop despite power outages and the…
For a Past, Present Future Perfect | The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
If given the opportunity, can people write their own history?
In Control
INTRODUCTION Despite all the advancements of modern photography, being skilled at taking photographs must take various factors into consideration. For instance, are you actually in control of your image-making device but first and…
A Tale of Two Cities, Kyabahinga & Kreileroord
Though this is not always the case nor always their intended purpose, photographs can sometimes help us to better understand our world. Continuing our ongoing dialogue this month of August 2011 with Dutch…
The Photographic Selection Process
INTRODUCTION A good photographer doesn’t just know when to push the button, but also knows which images from the usually larger number of photographs to choose and publish. Selecting and editing is an…
Mu Katanga
INTRODUCTION The other day the online version of The Monitor, one of Uganda’s leading newspapers, posted a story on Katanga. Not a word was a lie, all the photographs taken in Katanga. However…
