11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Congo in Conversation

Congo in Conversation

Guerchom Ndebo

Artist photographer and director, passionate about images, Guerchom Ndebo uses photography to communicate his concerns on complex subjects and to stimulate reflection on contemporary issues. At the heart of his artistic approach, the concepts of equality, cultural differences, solidarity and decadence collide.

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

Virunga National Park, DRC, February 22nd 2021. United Nations peacekeepers secure the area where the Italian ambassador to Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed in an apparent kidnapping attempt on Monday. An Italian embassy official and a Congolese World Food Programme driver were also killed in the ambush which took place near Nyiragongo volcano in Virunga Park. © Austere Malivika for Fondation Carmignac

Politics and Insecurity

Italian Ambassador killed in Eastern Congo Ambush Amid Rising Violence

The escalating churn of deadly violence engulfing parts of eastern Congo gained international attention when the Italian ambassador to the...

byGuerchom Ndeboand1 others

February 23, 2021

Virunga National Park, DRC, November 2020. A man stands by a smouldering kiln burning wood being turned into charcoal on a swathe of deforested land on the edge of Virunga National Park just north of the eastern Congolese city of Goma. © Guerchom Ndebo for Fondation Carmignac

Economy

Congo’s Charcoal: An Illegal Trade, a Precarious Lifeline

On a cloudy day in Congo’s North Kivu Province last month, Suma, 27, helped his father gather damp leaves to...

byGuerchom Ndebo

December 31, 2020

Goma, DRC, May 20th, 2020. A police officer sets up a roadblock to enforce a new curfew imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Wednesday. © Guerchom Ndebo for Fondation Carmignac

Health

Enforcing Goma’s new lockdown curfew

With an uptick of coronavirus cases in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the provincial government imposed new lockdown measures...

byGuerchom Ndebo