Cynthia R Matonhodze
Photographer
African Photojournalism Database
Harare, Zimbabwe
Cynthia R Matonhodze is a Zimbabwean documentary photographer currently based in Harare. Matonhodze has an Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Zimbabwe and successfully completed the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography programme at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2012.
Matonhodze's work focuses on human rights issues mostly in her native country Zimbabwe.
In 2013 she was shortlisted for the ZimRights Human Rights Journalist of the Year award for her portrait series on a local power utility's negligence that has cost people their lives and have left others permenantly disabled.
Matonhodze is a founding member of the Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers.
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Editorial
- Events
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
Afternoon meal
Cynthia R Matonhodze
April 29, 2013: A woman prepares food for her family at Hurudza Farm in Chabwino, Zimbabwe. Women are not permanently employed at the farm and so pt to work at neighboring farms to make enough to feed their families.
Give us alternative vending sites
Cynthia R Matonhodze
June 26, 2015: A member of the National Vendors Union cries during a march in protest of an order from the Zimbabwean government to remove all street vendors operating at undesignated sites in Harare. In recent years, vending has become a popular means of survival.
Bring Back Itai Dzamara
Cynthia R Matonhodze
August 31, 2015: Jerry Mugweni, an Occupy Africa Unity Square protestor, holds back tears during a moment for missing activist Itai Dzamara at an event held by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights to commemorate the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Dzamara has been missing since March 9, 2015.