Photo Essay: Lenses on Africa, global renown
We celebrate the work of journalists working in Africa and standing tall at global media’s top photography awards.
Paul Botes
The Africa selection of this year’s World Press Photo Awards had a great diversity of stories that offered rare glimpses and rich insights into life on the continent.
In particular, the work of two women photojournalists was recognised, including Temiloluwa Johnson, whose photography you will have seen in the pages of The Continent (editions 180 and 195).
Johnson wrote to us, highlighting her commissions from The Continent as among the first opportunities to “give her stories a chance on the local stage” – a good reminder of one of the many reasons this newspaper exists: to introduce excellent African journalists to the world.
Also among the winners of the 2025 World Press Photo Awards is Cinzia Canneri – a photographer whose work we will feature next week, telling of the complexities of conflict in Ethiopia, as well as Luis Tato and Aubin Mukoni, whose field work for AFP we have also published in these pages.
We celebrate their work as journalists working in Africa and standing tall at global media’s top photography awards.
