Sixteen photographers from 5 nations are recognised for work exploring displacement, id, conservation and on a regular basis life throughout the area.
The Basis for East African Pictures (FOTEA) has introduced the winners of its 2026 images awards, celebrating photographers documenting the folks, locations and points shaping East Africa.
This 12 months’s shortlist options 16 photographers from Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Burundi and Ethiopia throughout the fifteenth Uganda Press Photograph Award (UPPA), ninth East African Pictures Award (EAPA) and eleventh Younger Photographer Award (YPA).
Among the many winners, Wadah Omer acquired the EAPA Tales award for Weaving the Earth, a venture following Sudanese refugees in Uganda because the conflict in Sudan started in April 2023. Alex Nyende gained the general UPPA award for The place Do They Go?, documenting evictions in Kampala’s Kawaala neighbourhood as authorities sought to revive a part of the Lubigi wetland. Mohamed Abuagla gained EAPA Single Pictures (Human) for The Place That No One Belongs, whereas Anthony Ochieng Onyango gained EAPA Single Pictures (Planet).
Irene Jemillah Ahebwa was named the YPA winner. The programme helps rising photographers via mentorship {and professional} improvement.
“East African photographers proceed to take cost of their very own visible narratives,” stated Stella Nantongo, Director of FOTEA. “This 12 months’s photographers dwell the tales they inform, and it exhibits within the belief and intimacy of their work.”
The awards are supported by Fujifilm, which offers tools to chose winners, alongside companions together with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Uganda and the European Union Delegation to Uganda.
The 2026 exhibition is on view at MoTIV Uganda in Kampala, with a free public programme scheduled via 5 November 2026.
