EDUCATION & FURTHER STUDIES
2016 MA- Visual anthropology- Ongoing by Research
Key research area is by use of Photography and Multimedia documenting theatric performances of SA soccer fans.
2009: BA Honors Degree in Journalism and Media Studies at Wits University. Focus of study was Digital Media.
2005/06 Cert: Photography and Documentary Programme,
Market Photo Workshop, South Africa
2001 Diploma in Photojournalism, International Institute of Journalism, Germany
2000 News Directing in Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Kenya
EDUCATION & FURTHER STUDIES
2016 MA- Visual anthropology- Ongoing by Research
Key research area is by use of Photography and Multimedia documenting theatric performances of SA soccer fans.
2009: BA Honors Degree in Journalism and Media Studies at Wits University. Focus of study was Digital Media.
2005/06 Cert: Photography and Documentary Programme,
Market Photo Workshop, South Africa
2001 Diploma in Photojournalism, International Institute of Journalism, Germany
2000 News Directing in Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Kenya
WORK EXPERIENCE
Current: Digital Producer-Online and Social Writer
Maisha Magic channels, and other M-Net Africa channel requirements.
2016-2018: Documentary Photography Trainer-Market Photo Workshop
2018: Consulting Promo Script Writer
Script writing and editing of appropriate shots for TV Promos broadcast on Maisha Magic East Africa (English and Kiswahili) MNET.
2016- 2017: Media Producer
Producing and filming broadcast content for Kwese TV, IHLAS News agency, SABC and CGTN.
2015- Visiting Lecturer -Visualization and Art director- University of Johannesburg Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA)
Teaching and working with students in visualization, Photography in a Multimedia Unit.
2012-2014 Researcher-Human Science Research Council
Researcher within the Science and Communication unit
2008-2012 Journalism Lecturer, Witwatersrand University
Duties: Teaching Photojournalism –Multimedia to Postgraduate students and mid career journalists.
2006 – 2008 Freelance writer and photographer: Reuters News Agency/ Sunday Times/ European Press
Agency (EPA), and IRIN News
Duties: Writing feature stories and Photography
2001-2005 Nation Media Group, Photo Editor & Chief Photographer
Duties:
- Supervising the Photographic desk i.e. assigning daily news events to photographers in all the country bureaus
- Closely monitoring the picture production process ensuring and maintaining a quality product.
- Conducting regular training clinics on picture composition, story telling and editing.
- Digital archiving and ensuring smooth picture flow from photographers in the field to sub editors.
1999-2001 Television Producer, Nation Media Group
Duties:
- Produced and researched on the first talk show of its kind, up Close and Candid.
- Produced TV inserts and news features.
EXHIBITIONS AND WORKSHOPS
2012: Video production and editing workshop: Media Academy, Cape Town.
2010: Photo exhibition in Dubai where I trained local Photographers and video artists on new ways of telling the African story.
June: Halakasha Photo exhibition about South Africa Soccer Fans at the Standard Bank Gallery
June: Landuma Photo Exhibition about South Africa Soccer Fans in Rotterdam, Holland
2009: Selected as one of the African photographers to exhibit at the Bamako Biennale
November 2009
2004: Resident Artist at Fonty’s Academy-Netherlands. Later exhibited at Festival Mundial Holland
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2008 Adobe Photo of the year Award: Picture awarded from a series of Photographs illustrating the lifestyle of South African Youth.
2002- 2003 World Press Photo Photographic Tutor Uganda
1999 Human Rights Award for Photojournalism, award by Netherlands Embassy, Kenya.
1998 Still Photographer for “Baisikol” & “Forgotten” an M-NET film.
SELECTED CATALOGUES, WRITINGS AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS
-Theatrics of the soccer fan; a book chapter in the recently launched book, Categories of Person. Edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones, 2013.
-Playing to the terraces: notes on expressions of football fandom in South Africa: A journal article co-authored with Thabisani Ndlovu, published by Taylor and Francis, 2011.
-Featured as one of the leading Kenyan artist in the catalogue, Mwangalio Tofauti: Published by Goethe Institute Nairobi.
PUBLISHED MEDIA
Times London, Daily Mail, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Sunday Times (SA) Mail and Guardian (SA) Daily Nation (Kenya)
MEMBERSHIP
Southern African Association for Communication
Member of Foreign Correspondents Association
REFERENCES
Dr. Temba Masilela
Deputy Chief Executive for Research
HSRC
Tel +27 (12) 302 2080
Greg Marinovich
Harvard Fellow
Photographer and Pulitzer winner
Tel: +27 83 2588908
Jeggan Grey Johnson
Program Officer and Advocacy- OSISA
Tel: +27 (0)115875000 Cell: +27 (0)83620057
WORK EXPERIENCE
Current: Digital Producer-Online and Social Writer
Maisha Magic channels, and other M-Net Africa channel requirements.
2016-2018: Documentary Photography Trainer-Market Photo Workshop
2018: Consulting Promo Script Writer
Script writing and editing of appropriate shots for TV Promos broadcast on Maisha Magic East Africa (English and Kiswahili) MNET.
2016- 2017: Media Producer
Producing and filming broadcast content for Kwese TV, IHLAS News agency, SABC and CGTN.
2015- Visiting Lecturer -Visualization and Art director- University of Johannesburg Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA)
Teaching and working with students in visualization, Photography in a Multimedia Unit.
2012-2014 Researcher-Human Science Research Council
Researcher within the Science and Communication unit
2008-2012 Journalism Lecturer, Witwatersrand University
Duties: Teaching Photojournalism –Multimedia to Postgraduate students and mid career journalists.
2006 – 2008 Freelance writer and photographer: Reuters News Agency/ Sunday Times/ European Press
Agency (EPA), and IRIN News
Duties: Writing feature stories and Photography
2001-2005 Nation Media Group, Photo Editor & Chief Photographer
Duties:
- Supervising the Photographic desk i.e. assigning daily news events to photographers in all the country bureaus
- Closely monitoring the picture production process ensuring and maintaining a quality product.
- Conducting regular training clinics on picture composition, story telling and editing.
- Digital archiving and ensuring smooth picture flow from photographers in the field to sub editors.
1999-2001 Television Producer, Nation Media Group
Duties:
- Produced and researched on the first talk show of its kind, up Close and Candid.
- Produced TV inserts and news features.
EXHIBITIONS AND WORKSHOPS
2012: Video production and editing workshop: Media Academy, Cape Town.
2010: Photo exhibition in Dubai where I trained local Photographers and video artists on new ways of telling the African story.
June: Halakasha Photo exhibition about South Africa Soccer Fans at the Standard Bank Gallery
June: Landuma Photo Exhibition about South Africa Soccer Fans in Rotterdam, Holland
2009: Selected as one of the African photographers to exhibit at the Bamako Biennale
November 2009
2004: Resident Artist at Fonty’s Academy-Netherlands. Later exhibited at Festival Mundial Holland
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2008 Adobe Photo of the year Award: Picture awarded from a series of Photographs illustrating the lifestyle of South African Youth.
2002- 2003 World Press Photo Photographic Tutor Uganda
1999 Human Rights Award for Photojournalism, award by Netherlands Embassy, Kenya.
1998 Still Photographer for “Baisikol” & “Forgotten” an M-NET film.
SELECTED CATALOGUES, WRITINGS AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS
-Theatrics of the soccer fan; a book chapter in the recently launched book, Categories of Person. Edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones, 2013.
-Playing to the terraces: notes on expressions of football fandom in South Africa: A journal article co-authored with Thabisani Ndlovu, published by Taylor and Francis, 2011.
-Featured as one of the leading Kenyan artist in the catalogue, Mwangalio Tofauti: Published by Goethe Institute Nairobi.
PUBLISHED MEDIA
Times London, Daily Mail, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Sunday Times (SA) Mail and Guardian (SA) Daily Nation (Kenya)
MEMBERSHIP
Southern African Association for Communication
Member of Foreign Correspondents Association
REFERENCES
Dr. Temba Masilela
Deputy Chief Executive for Research
HSRC
Tel +27 (12) 302 2080
Greg Marinovich
Harvard Fellow
Photographer and Pulitzer winner
Tel: +27 83 2588908
Jeggan Grey Johnson
Program Officer and Advocacy- OSISA
Tel: +27 (0)115875000 Cell: +27 (0)83620057