Reimagining African Narratives Photography Fellowship
FEBRUARY - August 2025 | Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Photograph by Brian Siambi
NEWF is proud to announce the recent launch of the Reimagining African Narratives Photography Fellowship, designed to empower photographers and visual artists seeking to deepen their narratives and explore new strategies for their lens-based practices.
Six applicants were selected to participate: Blessings Sukali (Malawi), Fardosa Hussein (Somalia and Kenya), Filbert Minja (Tanzania), Iddah Akinyo (Kenya), Kefilwe Fifi Monosi (Botswana), and Kreative Kwame (Cameroon)
The fellowship, spanning six months, focuses on fostering responsible collaboration from an African perspective. Participants engage in online and in-person workshops aimed at advancing long-term projects, challenging traditional documentary formats, and expanding their visual stories through publications, exhibitions, and multimedia formats.
Photograph by Farzin Foroutan 2024
The Reimagining African Narratives photography fellowship has brought together six incredible creatives from across Africa, generating infectious energy as they develop projects exploring the intersection of community and environment in meaningful ways. I’m eager to see how our next in-person chapter unfolds in Bayala and for the NEWF Fellows to join the wider group at Congress in Durban—a rare and powerful gathering of passionate creatives working across varied disciplines. I have no doubt they will leave inspired, with fresh ideas and invaluable connections to propel their projects far beyond where they started.
// PEggy Sue AMison, Artistic Director of East Wing
Led by esteemed mentors Alexa Becker (Germany), Rehab Eldalil (Egypt), and Federico Estol (Uruguay), participants benefit from expert guidance in project conceptualisation, editing, and the construction of impactful visual narratives.
The Reimagining African Narratives Photography Fellowship offers photographers and visual artists eager to enrich their practice and contribute to transformative storytelling a unique opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and amplify African voices globally.
Emphasising ethical engagement with communities, the environment's critical role, and the importance of diverse perspectives and knowledge sharing; key topics covered include ethics, aesthetics, decolonising visual strategies, innovative methodologies of community participation through photography, and methodologies for audience development.
The first online session at the end of February gave the cohort a chance to introduce themselves and their work ahead of the first in-person meetings at the eKhaya Storytelling Centre in Durban, South Africa, just before the NEWF Congress in March 2025.
This Fellowship has been co-designed in partnership with Peggy Sue Amison, Alexa Becker, Federico Estol and Rehab ElDalil; and is supported by Africa Refocused.
For more information, please contact NEWF:
connect@newf.co.za
