VIDEO & PHOTO ESSAYS
Francine orr
Journalist and photographer Francine Orr (LA Times) visited the troubled region in April 2003 and September 2005.
» View Horror in Uganda, an interactive video & photography presentation
Sven Torfinn
Photographer Sven Torfinn's stunning and provocative photo series, "When the sun sets, we start to worry . . ."
Roger Lemoyne
Awarded an Alexia Foundation grant to travel nothern Uganda, Roger LeMoyne won honorable mention by the NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2005 for his photo essay.
Rex Miller
Documentary filmmaker and photographer Rex Miller documents in image and word the plight of the women in the Unyama camp in Gulu, northern Uganda.
Ethan Rafal
Student photographer Ethan Rafal faced down Ugandan army interrogators and tropical disease to photograph former child-soldiers.
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CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rebecca Bannor-Addae
Rebecca Bannor-Addae workjs for the United Nations Journalist Fellowship Program. She is a freelance journalist now living in New York. In 2005, Bannor-Addae travelled to Kitgum district in northern Uganda to report on thousands of children living in constant fear. Read the testimony of these "night commuter" children in an article first published in the International Herald Tribune.
Rex Miller
Documentary photographer and filmmaker Rex Miller was born in 1962 in New York City and raised in Astoria, Queens, the son of a Jamaican mother (descended from Portuguese, African, Eastern-European Jewish and East Indian folks) and European-American father. He was educated at Trinity School (NY, 1980) and Colgate University (Hamilton, NY; BA, English/Fine Art, 1984). He took courses in Photojournalism at the Int’l Center of Photography (NY), but considers himself self-taught.
A documentary and editorial photographer for the past 18 years, his photography clients have included ABC News, American Express, Atlantic Records, Bertelsman, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, CBS, Forbes, John Kennedy, Jr., Knopf, McDonald’s, Musician, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Nickelodeon, Random House, the Robin Hood Foundation, Rolling Stone, Spin, Sony Music, Time.
Rex has been documenting the traditions of music and life in Mississippi since 1990, and has made over thirty trips there. In 1991, Rex co-founded and served as Director (for 5 years) of the Delta Blues Education Fund, a non-profit organization that employed local Mississippi musicians to teach area children the history and techniques of delta blues music, for which he wrote grants, produced fundraising exhibits (press coverage from The New Yorker, New York Magazine) and developed curriculum materials. In 1998, the students of the program were invited to the White House, where they performed for President Bill Clinton.
In March 2005, Rex travelled to Uganda for a month, photographing and filming for a documentary project that looks at the effect of war on people's lives there.
Gøril Trondsen Booth
Gøril Trondsen Booth - an independent photojournalist since 1996, specializing in social issues, human rights, aid to underdeveloped countries and areas of conflict.
"What's important to me is that my pictures turn in to be more than a document of time and place, I want them to portray humanity in different situations of life. I do believe that I can influence people through my work and increase acceptance and understanding for fellow beings by bringing the viewer a little closer to the truth. My camera is no more or less a tool that make me able to tell important stories.," says the photographer that always had an extra fire burning for her work with and for children, women and other vulnerable groups.
Gøril Trondsen Booth has her roots above the artic circle in Norway in the towns of Narvik and Bodø. In 1990 a relocation took her to Oslo, the capital of Norway where she began her education in photography. She continued to Sweden to attend The Nordic School of Photography, founded by the acclaimed Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm, to study documentary photography and photojournalism, specializing in projectwork and exhibitions.
She also has education within computer design from MI- Merkantilsk Institute in Oslo.
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