That’s one whole lot of cute »
Between 6 – 12 visitors, paying $500 per head, are allowed to visit Rwanda’s famous Gorillas in the Virunga National Park per day. I’ve yet to visit, but I plan to even with the high price tag and one hour time limit. Fortunately, a good many of the visitors who have made the trek took [...]
Rwanda retrospective »
This picture of Watsui dancers in Rwanda is part of a fascinating series of photos from 1920’s through to the 1950’s in DR Congo and Rwanda. Flickr user Lucien has very kindly uploaded photographs taken by his grandparents along with a number of images by other photographers from the same period. His grandparents travelled repeatedly [...]
Capturing courage through the lens »
Ray Tollison is a photographer based in Fort Collins, Colorado. He visited Rwanda recently to work with World Relief. During his trip Ray focused on portrait images and he published a selection of those photos on his Flickr account. They’re some of the best images of Rwanda that you’ll find on Flickr. Following on from [...]
Intended Consequences »
While I’m talking about films… I thought I’d also drop this onto the blog. Intended Consequences is a superb MediaStorm production released in 2008. It focuses on the experiences of Rwandan women during the 1994 genocide and tells their stories through photographs and oral narrative. It was produced by Jonathan Torgovnik. It’s a very well [...]
Simon Sticker puts Rwanda in the picture »
Simon Sticker is a photojournalist based in Cologne, Germany. He visited Rwanda recently to work on a variety of photographic projects, most notably the With Our Eyes project which aims to help Rwandan people tell their own stories with fairly basic, readily available equipment. I asked Simon a little about his work, his impressions of [...]
Riding through Kacyiru »
I was riding through Kacyiru yesterday on a beautiful, sunny day when I took this photograph with my phone from the back of a mototaxi. It’s a little dark and brooding, but there’s something about it I quite like. Perhaps it’s the curvature of the cobbled road, which are common on this side of Kigali. [...]
Esther Heavens photos from Rwanda »
Freelance photographer Esther Heavens visited Rwanda in 2008 and took a series of great shots including the one above of a girl sheltering from what looks like an ominous sky. I did ask Esther to tell me a little bit more about the picture, who is in it and when and where it was taken [...]
From the kitchen to the volcanoes »
Freelance videographer David Smith recently spent a bit of time in Rwanda filming a documentary for an NGO. In between work he managed to pop up to meet the Gorillas in Volcanoes National Park and to take a series of still images including the one above – “In the Kitchen” – that caught my eye. [...]
Yankees “spotted” in central Kigali »
The New York Yankees, who won a baseball competition misleadingly called The World Series earlier this week, may be pleased and surprised to find they have at least one fan in Rwanda. In our continuing series of minibuses come poster campaigns, come artmobiles, come advertising campaigns, see exhibit 2 above – The Yankeesmobile in central [...]
It’s curtains for Kigali »
There’s one thing we didn’t squeeze into the box when we moved to Kigali – curtains. Fortunately, there are a couple of curtain making shops in central Kigali. Interestingly, all of these shops are owned and staffed by Pakistani immigrants. Leaving my curtain woes aside for two seconds, I’m hoping to start a regular feature [...]
