11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Congo in Conversation

Congo in Conversation

Environment

Kivu’s forests

byGuerchom NdeboOctober 6, 2021

35 reportages, 15 photographers, 6 months

Co-published by Fondation Carmignac and Reliefs Éditions, the bilingual French-English monograph Congo In Conversation is available since November 10th.

Goma, South Kivu, May 22 2021. At night, residents flee the eruption of Nyiragongo volcano. This image was among the first that Fondation Carmignac's Congo in Conversation contributor Guerchom Ndebo filed to Agence France-Presse within hours of the eruption and it was widely published internationally. Guerchom Ndebo for Fondation Carmignac.

Environment

Covering Nyiragongo’s Eruption

Photographer Guerchom Ndebo was relaxing at home on the evening of May 22nd when a friend called to ask him...

byFinbarr O'Reillyand3 others

South Kivu Province, March 2021. A woman pans for gold at a mine called D3 in Kamituga. Moses Sawasawa for Fondation Carmignac

Environment

Congo’s Gold Curse Continues

The muddy slopes on the hills surrounding the eastern Congolese gold mining town of Kamituga are home to both vast...

byMoses Sawasawa

Kinshasa, DRC, February 2021. Sapeur Koko Lingwala poses atop a grave in the cemetery in the Gombe neighbourhood of Kinshasa on February 10 to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Stervos Niarcos, who died 26 years ago in Paris and is revered as the founder of modern sapeurism, the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People (or Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes in the original French, or SAPE for short). © Justin Makangara for Fondation Carmignac

Health

Congo’s Sapeurs Revisit Their Roots

No longer a fringe subculture devoted to showing off their flamboyant fashions to admiring local crowds, the Sapeurs of Brazzaville...

byJustin Makangara

Goma, DRC, February 2021. A student has her temperature checked at the entrance to Mwanga Institute in the eastern Congolese city of Goma as schools reopened in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday after a two-month hiatus due to a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. © Moses Sawasawa for Fondation Carmignac

Health

Students Return to School as Pandemic Second Wave Eases

Schools and universities reopened this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a two-month hiatus due to the second...

byMoses Sawasawa

February 26, 2021

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