The Safe photography Project

Angela Jimu is a storyteller using both text and images living between Malawi and Zimbabwe. She works in writing, visual storytelling, visual culture, visual literacy training, mentoring and coaching aspiring photographers. She is the co-founder and Director of the Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers (ZAFP) and also a co-founder and Country Director at the Centre for Visual Storytelling, Malawi. She has served as a jury for various photo competitions, most notably World Press Photo, W.Eugene Smith Grant, Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and Canon Female Photojournalist Grant. 

Carla Bower is the Managing Editor of Al Jazeera.com, where she leads regional and specialised teams in covering the world’s news from the perspective of those most affected by events. She has a particular love for long-form narrative journalism.

As a much loved captain of Manchester United and the French National team, Patrice Evra is the consummate modern sportsman. He is a successful entrepreneur, a glowing example of health and fitness, a motivational speaker and an influential social media personality. Today, he also aims to help mentor and inspire people around the world to maximise their potential, drawing on the challenges he faced: from poverty, to racism to sexual abuse at the age of 13. Born in Dakar, Senegal, Evra came to France at the age of one. His family fell upon hard times when his father left home, leaving him and his 24 brothers and sisters to largely fend for themselves in the tough district of Les Ulis; an area plagued by crime and lack of investment.  Evra’s time growing up there was extremely challenging. But along with other players like Thierry Henry from the same area, Evra triumphed in the face of adversity, always keeping an open and positive attitude towards life. He especially understands what it is like to go without, and he brings this humility to his family life. Evra speaks six languages and has an irrepressible sense of humour and a contagious joie de vivre. Today, his main focus is to give back to others: whether it be joining the fight to end violence against children, promoting gender equality, spreading positivity with his I Love This Game movement, or shining a light on racism and mental health issues in football – Evra is a force of nature and his story is only just beginning.

Derrick Ofosu Boateng is an award winning fine art photographer and founder of the African Art movement ‘Hueism’. Inspired by the wisdom of African proverbs and the richness of the continent, he creates vibrant images that veer between visual poetry and color therapy. More recently his work was featured in magazines (Vogue, Bazzar, The Guardian), album covers (A beautiful revolution part 1 & 2 for Common), and even a symbol of struggle and empowerment during the war in Sudan with one of his self-portraits. 

Erika Piñeros is a photographer, multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker based between Colombia and Cambodia. Her work investigates and documents conflict, human rights violations, migration and other socio-political issues, while exploring the complexities of representation across cultures. Piñeros has told intimate stories exposing underreported issues, like the plight of victims of kidnapping and sexual violence and her work has been published in numerous outlets including Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The New Humanitarian and Le Monde.

Dr. Etienne Krug is Director of the Department for Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He leads global efforts to prevent violence and injuries, to address social determinants of health and promote healthy ageing. He oversees the development of intergovernmental resolutions and global reports, the implementation of multi-country development projects, and advocacy campaigns. He chairs the International Organizing Committee for World Conferences on Injury Prevention, the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and co-chairs the Executive Committee of the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children.

Fabeha Monir is a Bangladesh-based visual journalist. As a humanist photographer, she tells people-focused stories exploring social development, climate change, migration, gender violence, and forced exile in marginalised communities. She has worked with The New York Times, BBC News, CNN, NBC News, The Guardian, Elle Magazine, Oxfam, British Red Cross, Action Aid among others. She is the Co-creator of the Virtual reality & Documentary film Immersive Storytelling of Rohingya Refugees funded by Davis projects for peace. She is the Thomson Reuters  Foundation’s  Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Grant Awardee 2021.   

Joshua Irwandi is a documentary photographer and a National Geographic Explorer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. While working in West Papua, Indonesia, Irwandi was embedded as museum staff at the Asmat Museum. His project ‘Not A Blank Canvas’ was awarded the National Geographic Society storytelling grant in 2021. Recently, he was awarded the 2021 World Press Photo Award in General News, Grand Prize winner for Lucie Foundation, and selected as a finalist of The Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography, among several other awards. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, NHK, The Times of London, among others.

Lydia Goldblatt is a London-based photographic artist. Her work considers themes of belonging, transience and emotional experience.  Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House London, the National Museum Gdansk, the GoEun Museum of Photography and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. Her first book, Still Here, is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections. Lydia received an award for her portrait ‘Eden’ in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and the GRAIN Projects Artist Commission. She was awarded the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Photography Festival. Her second book, Fugue, is published by GOST Books in 2024.

Jimena Cascante Matamoros (she/her) is a Senior Youth Collective Coordinator at Restless Development. Jimena holds a M.Sc. in Transnational, Cultural, and Community Studies, and two Bachelor’s Degrees in Gender and Development as well as in Chemistry. Jimena has also been involved in Human Rights and LGBTQI+ activism for over 12 years in Latin America. She is a co coordinator and founder of the artivist group Voces Fieras in Costa Rica, where she likes to play with words as a means to form community.