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Nantongo

@snantongo

Co-Director FOTEA & @UPPAward.

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Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨7 DAYS!! The 2025 Young Photographer Award July  7 deadline is upon us. 📸 Stand a chance to win a Fujifilm X-S20 + XF16-50 kit 📸 Emerging Ugandan photographers aged 21–28 🎯 Showcase your best work & grow your career 📝 For details & how to submit bit.ly/4dP8If7

🚨7 DAYS!!
The 2025 Young Photographer Award July  7 deadline is upon us. 📸 Stand a chance to win a Fujifilm X-S20 + XF16-50 kit

📸 Emerging Ugandan photographers aged 21–28
🎯 Showcase your best work & grow your career
📝 For details & how to submit  bit.ly/4dP8If7
Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mentorship update!! 📸Mentees explored how archives can shape research & storytelling. With History In Progress Uganda's Canon Griffin, they dug into Uganda’s history at Makerere Lib & the National Lib & Archives; uncovering stories that still shape us today. Details >> bit.ly/3I6SQcb

Mentorship update!!

📸Mentees explored how archives can shape research &amp; storytelling. With <a href="/HIPUganda/">History In Progress Uganda</a>'s Canon Griffin, they dug into Uganda’s history at Makerere Lib &amp; the National Lib &amp; Archives; uncovering stories that still shape us today.

Details &gt;&gt; bit.ly/3I6SQcb
Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⏳ 6 DAYS LEFT⏳ to enter #UPPA2025! Inviting photographers across Uganda to push the boundaries of visual storytelling. ⏰Deadline: July 20, 2025 (11:59 PM EAT)

Chirag Wakaskar (चिराग वाकसकर) (@chiragwakaskar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

By including only ONE woman from photojournalism Visapourlimage Jean-Francois Leroy has robbed a white man of his rightful space here. 2025, this shouldn't be happening. We need to be more inclusive of male white photographers. instagram.com/p/DMYDiOotrdk/…

By including only ONE woman from photojournalism <a href="/Visapourlimage/">Visapourlimage</a> <a href="/jf_leroy/">Jean-Francois Leroy</a> has robbed a white man of his rightful space here. 2025, this shouldn't be happening. We need to be more inclusive of male white photographers.
instagram.com/p/DMYDiOotrdk/…
Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌟 Meet the 2025 Young Photographer Award jury! These past YPA winners bring expert eyes from photojournalism, documentary, and storytelling—and they’re here to spotlight Uganda’s next visual storytellers👇 #MeetTheJudges #YPA2025

🌟 Meet the 2025 Young Photographer Award jury! These past YPA winners bring expert eyes from photojournalism, documentary, and storytelling—and they’re here to spotlight Uganda’s next visual storytellers👇

#MeetTheJudges #YPA2025
Daily Monitor (@dailymonitor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Statement on Nation Media Group- Uganda ban from covering Parliament and the President #MonitorUpdates #UGBoldVoice #JournalismIsNotACrime

Statement on Nation Media Group- Uganda ban from covering Parliament and the President
#MonitorUpdates 
#UGBoldVoice
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're thrilled that this year’s winning images have been featured in L'Oeil de la Photo! 📸✨ A celebration of East African stories reaching broader audiences🙌🏿🙌🏿 Check it out >> bit.ly/49qtDon #UPPA2025 #EAPA2025 #YPA2025 #Photojournalism #DocumentaryPhotography

We're thrilled that this year’s winning images have been featured in <a href="/LOeildelaPhoto/">L'Oeil de la Photo</a>! 📸✨

A celebration of East African stories reaching broader audiences🙌🏿🙌🏿

Check it out &gt;&gt; bit.ly/49qtDon

#UPPA2025 #EAPA2025 #YPA2025 #Photojournalism #DocumentaryPhotography
ACME Africa (@acme_africa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Successful completion! We concluded a 3-day training for the second cohort of journalists on election reporting in Uganda. Participants gained practical skills to ensure fair, accurate, and ethical coverage in the upcoming electoral season.

Successful completion!
We concluded a 3-day training for the second cohort of journalists on election reporting in Uganda. Participants gained practical skills to ensure fair, accurate, and ethical coverage in the upcoming electoral season.
Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What happens when photography meets natural fibres? 📸Join us for a talk with joshua_semaganda on experimenting with alternative printing methods & rethinking the photograph as a tactile, living object 🗓️ Nov 20 🕡6.30PM EAT 🔗Sign up: bit.ly/4oDp5Qv Spread the word!

What happens when photography meets natural fibres?

📸Join us for a talk with <a href="/Semagandajoshua/">joshua_semaganda</a> on experimenting with alternative printing methods &amp;  rethinking the photograph as a tactile, living object

🗓️ Nov 20
🕡6.30PM EAT
đź”—Sign up: bit.ly/4oDp5Qv

Spread the word!
ACME Africa (@acme_africa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Keep those #UNJA2026 submissions coming! Have you reviewed your published work from 1st Jan to date? Don't wait until the last minute! Start preparing your portfolio of 3-5 stories in your chosen category. More information. acme-ug.org/2025/10/15/ope… #JournalismAwards

Keep those #UNJA2026 submissions coming! Have you reviewed your published work from 1st Jan  to date? Don't wait until the last minute! Start preparing your portfolio of 3-5 stories in your chosen category.  More information. acme-ug.org/2025/10/15/ope… #JournalismAwards
Maren (@mbjorgum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For all of you who didn’t ask: Here’s a recap from last week’s shenanigans in Kigali with Team Emata. A healthy dose of tech conversations, vegan tacos, coffee washing stations and those famous Kigali running tracks. Thank you for the party, Norrsken East Africa 🙏

Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Meet Maureen Gathoni (2025 EAPA Nominee)! She's a Kenyan photographer & the eye behind "Women in the Wild," inspired by Ol Pejeta's 1st female ranger (her mother!). LIVE with Georgina Goodwin, let's explore how to make powerful photos more impactful! TUES, DEC 2ND, 3 PM EAT. #PhotoTalk

Uganda Press Photo (@uppaward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Meet Georgina Goodwin! ​The P2P Conversation is LIVE this TUESDAY! Join documentary & conservation photographer Georgina Goodwin and EAPA Winner Maureen Gathoni (Dec 2nd, 3 PM EAT) on IG. #ConservationPhotography #wildlife #documentary #Photographer #photographylovers #fyp #explore