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ISSUE 07 founder & Editor - in - chief christina engell andersen editor bukonola ngobi EDITORIAL CO-ORDINATOR fawzia jamal CONTRIBUTORS 04 georgina goodwin 018 rohini das 32 joe makeni 44 gagan ubhi 56 festus mateso cover georgina goodwin OPPOSITE PAGE gagan ubhi WEBSITE www.after5.co.ke
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GEORGI GOODW
Georgina is a freelance Kenyan-born photographer specialis humanitarian and social issues relating to Africa especially with in particular health such as HIV/AIDS and malaria. Her cover been widely published and was shortlisted for the Prix-Bayeux
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sing in documentary and editorial photography. She covers h regard to gender, politics, environment and development and rage of the Kenyan post-election violence in 2007/2008 has x War Photographer Award in 2008. She is based in Kenya.
An Amhara boy and his family’s Ethiopian pony stand on the barren area, called Washera in Wollo which is 3200m above sea level and fail this year leaving 400 people and 24,000 livestock dead. The fa wheat and barley. But distributions from US aid and the United Natio July 2008
soil of what should be a wheat or barley field ready for harvest. The 600kms north of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, has had both rains armers’ fields lie barren when at this time they should be harvesting ons’ World Food Programme have helped to stabilise the situation.
An Amhara farmer and behind him lies his dead Ethiopian horse in fields o area, called Washera in Wollo which is 3200m above sea level and 600km 400 people and 24,000 livestock dead. The farmers’ fields lay barren wh distributions from USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (U such as the Ethiopian famine of 1983-5 which affected the inhabitants of tod in a century. In northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths and certainly played a part in the tragedy. July 2008
of barren soil of what should be a wheat or barley ready for harvest. The ms north of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, had both rains fail in 2008 leaving hen at this time they would have been harvesting wheat and barley. Food UNEP) helped stabilise the situation and prevent it from becoming a disaster day’s Eritrea and Ethiopia and which was the worst famine to hit the country was often ascribed to drought though climatic causes and consequences
An Amhara boy digs for grass roots to give his livestock from the barren s north of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, which would have been ample gra northern Ethiopian Highlands of Northeast Africa called teff had both rains distributions from USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (U such as the Ethiopian famine of 1983-5 which affected the inhabitants of tod in a century. In northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths and certainly played a part in the tragedy. July 2008
soil around Washera Town in Wollo, 3200m above sea level and 600kms azing and fields of wheat, barley and a species of lovegrass native to the s not failed in 2008 leaving 400 people and 24,000 livestock dead. Food UNEP) helped stabilise the situation and prevent it from becoming a disaster day’s Eritrea and Ethiopia and which was the worst famine to hit the country was often ascribed to drought though climatic causes and consequences
Dusk falls on carcasses along the road from Desse as it enters the town of W 600kms north of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. These Ethiopian ponies are that hit this region in 2008 along with 400 people after both rains failed. Foo (UNEP) helped stabilise the situation and prevent it from becoming a disaste today’s Eritrea and Ethiopia and which was the worst famine to hit the cou and was often ascribed to drought though climatic causes and consequen
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Night falls after USAID made a distribution of sacks of wheat in Washera t July the farmers in this area would have been harvesting their wheat and b ploughed with ever dwindling hope for rain. 400 people and 24,000 livestock July 2008
town, some 600kms north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Now in the month of barley fields but the rains failed twice in 2008 and fields lay barren yet still k lost their lives during this drought despite USAID and UN food distributions.
A young Ethiopian girl from the Amhara tribe helps to pack her family’s donk some 600kms north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Food distributions such as helped stabilise the situation and prevent it from becoming a disaster such a Eritrea and Ethiopia and which was the worst famine to hit the country in a often ascribed to drought though climatic causes and consequences certai
keys with US AID sacks of wheat from a distribution made in Washera town, this from USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (UNEP) as the Ethiopian famine of 1983-5 which affected the inhabitants of today’s a century. In northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths and was inly played a part in the tragedy. July 2008
ROHINI DAS
Documentary photography only really works when all element light and composition. As the great photojournalist and one of place head, heart and eye along the same line of sight.’ So w so much more than just a photo, I aim to align you with my h because they are, as any photographer will tell you, the easies like a rainbow, they alone are a vault of expression and desire of places as far north as Lake Turkana, as far west as Gha Tanzania, I go wherever I am beckoned and work mostly with projects.
ts are perfectly aligned, and not just the little things like subject, my icons, Henri Cartier Bresson once said, ‘photography is to with my attempts at documentary photography, I aim to make head, heart and eye. My work predominantly features children st and most pleasurable human company to document. Myriad e, curiosity and audacity! Having traveled into the rural depths ana, as far east as West Bengal, India and as far south as NGOs and on cultivating human stories through inter-personal
JOE MAKEN
I am an artist. A photographer. I began taking pictures in 200 practiced Structural engineering for one year but even though in September of 2011 I resigned and went full time into photog light. I like my shadows and my highlights to communicate wh Light detail is what I’m all about. I earn my living shooting Weddings, Interiors, Commercial and
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06 as a hobbyist photographer while I was in the university. I I loved it I realized that photography was my true passion. So graphy. One year down and many more to come. I play with hat my images are about. It has to be as I see it in my mind. Editorial photographs but I love to shoot fashion.
GAGAN UBHI
I am an aspiring photographer brought up in Nairobi but now saying ‘A photograph can speak a million words’, my photograp a photograph to change a perspective of a moment. When untouched, I relish in turning every photograph I take into some be perceived in different ways depending on the person viewi play with different meanings. I quite enjoy urban photography easiest and most enjoyable to work with. As an aspiring photo doesn’t have to be perfect as an imperfect photograph can accessory and I’m enjoying every part of it.
living in UK for the last two years. I am a keen believer in the phy is not just about capturing an instant of life but manipulating never I take a photograph I am never satisfied with leaving it ething it was never intended to be. I believe a photograph can ing it therefore an element of photo manipulation allows me to y and portrait photography as I find these photography styles ographer I grow with every photograph I take, my photography n turn out to be the best photograph. My DSLR is my best
FESTUS MATESO
I am an avid editorial, featured and comic strip cartoonist with had my works published in diverse publications including natio also participated in cartooning exhibitions both locally and inter
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h over 3000 artworks published in the last eight years. I have onal newspapers as well as established magazines and have rnationally.
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CONTRIBUTORS GEORGINA GOODWIN photographer http://www.georginagoodwin.com ROHINI DAS photographer http://www.etherunbound.blogspot.com JOE MAKENI photographer http://joe.frontlite.co.ke GAGAN UBHI student gagan.ubhi@hotmail.com FESTUS MATESO cartoonist festusmateso@gmail.com
ED FRAY photographer
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