11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award

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.

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

May 22, 2020

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Guerchom Ndebo

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

Enforcing Goma’s new lockdown curfew

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