In Pictures: Everyday Africa you don’t see on the news
- Text by Alex King
- Photography by See captions
As far as the mainstream media is concerned, the only topics worth reporting on from Africa are poverty, disease and war.
But social media movement Everyday Africa’s nonprofit network of contributing photojournalists and native self-taught photographers know there are so many other stories that don’t make the news.
Sam Vox
Jane Hahn
Nana Kofi Acquah
Holly Pickett
Jane Hahn
Founded in 2012, they use Instagram as their platform to fill in the gaps left by the media: the everyday lives lived by the vast majority of the continent’s 1.1 billion inhabitants.
Tom Saater
Nana Kofi Acquah
Charlie Shoemaker
Barry Christianson
The project has so far amassed 2,600 images, 283,000 followers on Instagram and inspired dozens of “Everyday” feeds across the globe, now united as The Everyday Projects – a nonprofit promoting culture exchange and discussion across borders.
Peter DiCampo
Ley Uwera
Laura El Tantawy
Glenna Gordon
Everyday Africa have launched a print sale featuring images from 18 photographers spanning 15 countries and all net proceeds from this sale will fund further educational initiatives and a forthcoming book.
Find out more about Everyday Africa and their print sale with U Gallery, which runs through April 2016.
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