Wednesday, 7 June 2023
James Oatway is a photojournalist and the former chief photographer and picture editor of the ‘Sunday Times’. He has won numerous awards for his work, which focuses mainly on political and social issues in Africa, migration and those affected by conflict.
Photojournalists have been covering the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic mostly from the ground, but these drone images of the city from the past year provide a new perspective.
A young car guard who had beaten his drug addiction died tragically before South Africa went into a 21-day lockdown. His funeral was among the first to be held while restrictions are in place.
A slave colony that won its freedom only to face colonial debt, dictators and a US-backed coup, the world let Haiti down when it most needed help. A photojournalist recounts what he saw in 2010.
Sometimes a picture means different things to different people. Sometimes, it’s just a picture.
Denis Farrell’s aerial photograph in 1994 of a snaking queue of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Militia abductions of boys and teachers from schools and villages in the DRC are likely to carry on in a country contesting the legitimacy of its new president, Félix Tshisekedi.
An encounter with two cultural icons in the same Johannesburg home in 2004 resulted in stage fright rather than a great photograph.
Wikus de Wet and Jaco van der Merwe use exquisitely crafted images and words to explore the angst experienced by many young