Esther Mbabazi
photojournalist
African Photojournalism Database
Kampala, Uganda
Esther Mbabazi (1995) is a documentary photographer in Kampala Uganda. She focuses on storytelling, documentary photography. Coming from a humble background, her work explores living conditions in African settings specializing on the social, economic, physical and emotional aspects of daily life especially in rural areas and minority groups of society. A winner of the inaugural Young Photographer Award presented by the Uganda Press Photo Award 2016, Esther works towards sharing and bringing to light different issues in society that are usually under told to the public. Being a woman in a male dominated industry in Uganda, many of her works document women and children since they are usually underrepresented in the media.
2017 - Photography & Social Justice Fellowship, 2016 - Young Photographers' Award
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Events
- Portrait
- Still life