Nichole Sobecki
Photographer
The Everyday Projects
Nairobi, Kenya
Nichole Sobecki is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is represented internationally by the photo agency VII.
Nichole graduated from Tufts University before beginning her career in Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria, focusing on regional issues related to identity, conflict, and human rights. From 2012-2015 Nichole led Agence France-Presse’s East Africa video bureau, and was a 2014 Rory Peck Awards News Finalist for her coverage of the Westgate mall attacks in Kenya. Her work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year, the One World Media Awards, the Alexandra Boulat Award for Photojournalism, The Magenta Foundation, and The Jacob Burns Film Center, among others.
Nichole sits on the board of Tufts University’s Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, founded by Gary Knight. She is also a contributor to Everyday Africa, a collection of images shot on mobile phones across the continent, and an attempt to showcase the moments missing from dramatic news images — everyday life that is neither idealized nor debased.
Nichole aims to create photographs and films that demand consideration for the lives of those represented – their joys, challenges, and ultimately their humanity.
She has completed assignments throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Newsweek, Time, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Le Monde, and her work has been exhibited internationally.
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2016 - Refugee Reporting Award - One World Media Awards, 2016 - New Lens Award - The Jacob Burns Film Center, 2014 - Rory Peck Awards News Finalist , 2014 - The Alexandra Boulat Award for Photojournalism, 2013 - Pictures of the Year International - Multimedia , 2012 - Flash Forward Emerging Photographer winner
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
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Angola in crisis.
Nichole Sobecki
As the price of oil rose earlier this decade, this capital city did as well. Glass skyscrapers soared above the rubble of a 27-year civil war. But as oil prices have crashed, the impact on one of Africa’s richest and most unequal countries has been devastating.
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Easter mass in the wake of the Garissa attacl
Nichole Sobecki
Worshippers gather for an Easter service at the All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi on April 5, 2015, mourning the country's worst ever massacre. These prayers marked the start of three days of national mourning for the almost 150 people killed in an attack on Garissa University by Somalia's Shebab Islamists on April 2, in the northeastern town of Garissa.