Friday 22 May 2009

Post Election Violence Through The Lens


Boniface Mwangi, known to many as Bonny is 25 year-old Kenyan who has been
doing photography since 2005.
His book, The Price of Tribal Politics, is the story of Kenya’s post‑election violence through the lens of a photojournalist.
Mwangi has received several awards including The CNN Photo Journalist Award Of The Year 2008.
He has also worked as a stringer for the major wire agencies during the recent election violence in Kenya, Mwangi’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The Sunday Times, International Herald Tribune, and BBC Focus in Africa Magazine.
Last year he won third prize in the World Health Organization photo contest in Images of Health and Disability 2007. His coverage for Kenya post election violence won him “Award of Excellence” America, Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and was short-listed for Sony World Photography Awards 2008
and Nominated for Joop World press Master Class in 2008 as one of the 132 finest and most promising young photographer from around the world.

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