SoJ Web Report | Oct. 2, 2011
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| Photo by Jacob Otieno |
| Jacob Otieno of The Standard in Nairobi took this photo of the Mungiki crackdown. He and Djibril Sy of Panapress visit in October. |
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Jacob Otieno, photo editor of The Standard in Nairobi, and Djibril Sy, photojournalist for Panapress news agency in Dakar, arrive Oct. 17 for a two-week stay. An exhibit of their work, "African Lens: Photojournalism of Africa by Africans,” opens Friday at the Education Gallery of the Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center. The gallery is sponsoring a reception at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 20, and the two journalists will speak and answer questions about their work.
Associate professors Jim Kelly of journalism and Eileen Julien of comparative literature are hosting the photojournalists. The two professors are faculty members of the African Studies Program, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with several events, including the gallery reception.
When they arrive, they will participate in a series of events, including a presentation to Rotary and to the Young Professionals Group, two presentations to the African Studies Program's Noon Talks, and four journalism classes. Other appearances are in the works, Kelly said.
Bios:
Djibril Sy
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| Photo by Djibril Sy |
| Sy calls this shot "Salt Worker." |
In 2000 he joined Panapress, the first pan-African press agency. Its headquarters are in Dakar and it covers the entire continent. Sy has also photographed many armed conflicts in Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d Ivoire, Guinea Bissau and Darfur, Sudan.
His awards include first prize in the 2003 African Press Fuji Film Award and a prize in the 2009 United Nations Development Program, "Picture This: Caring for the Earth.” He is finalizing a photographic book, Green Senegal, about the African environment with a Senegalese NGO to be published in 2012.
Jacob Otieno
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| Courtesy photo |
| Jacob Otieno of The Standard in Nairobi. |
In 1998 he photographed the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi by al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists that killed 218 people and left 5,000 injured. He covered the post-election violence of 2008 that resulted in the death of as many as 1,400 people.
He has won three Kenyan Photojournalists of the Year awards and a United Nations Development Programme first place award. As The Standard's photo editor, he oversees the work of 26 photojournalists across the country. He is also the deputy chairman of the Photojournalists Association of Kenya.
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