World Voices
Thomson Foundation has always championed young and emerging talent.
Here we highlight the foundation’s collaborations with our alumni, celebrating their skills and showcasing their inspiring work. The content produced includes their perspectives on a range of journalism hot topics, from migration, media freedom and ethics to racial injustice, protests, climate change and Covid-19.
A Sudanese artist pushing for a bright future
Artist Reem Al Jeally was one of several female artists who created celebratory murals in Sudan during the 2019 revolution, documenting the power of Sudanese women who have long led change.
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Truth always wins
For Martín Leandro Camacho, 2020 represented a milestone in what is expected to be an influential and fulfilling career. It was the year the Peruvian became the eighth winner of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award from among almost 200 entries spanning four continents.
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Covering the escalation of police brutality in Kenya
Maurice Oniang’o won the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist award in 2014 . Now, he is firmly established in his field and making long-form films and documentaries that hold power to account. His mission is to give a voice to those who cannot be heard and a platform to those who cannot be seen.
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World Photography Day
At a time when we face tumultuous changes on many fronts, photography helps us to tell a story and make some order out of the chaos. It moves us to compassion and opens our eyes to the world around us.
Refugee life through a lens
Jordan-based filmmaker, Jumana Saadeh's multilayered storytelling is urgent and leaves an enduring impression, but when she describes the challenges of making her films, she talks of how healing isn’t straightforward or linear for refugees.
Reporting on refugees: Belonging and unbelonging
True sanctuary is still a distant prospect for Rohingya refugees, but Kashmir-based multimedia journalist, Raqib Naik, depicts them with ample sensitivity in his work and hopes his reporting will counter hostility towards them.
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Bad tidings in Vietnam
“2020 was the year of historic floods in Vietnam.” Photojournalist and Thomson Foundation alumna, Yen Duong, offers a visual insight into the consequences of climate change and provides safety tips for journalists. Find Yen in our new series of free environmental journalism online courses.
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The ethics of bearing witness
We speak to Vietnamese photojournalist and former Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award finalist, Yen Duong, about why she was drawn to photography, the importance of context and trust, and producing compassionate photography that delves into the human condition.
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Hard truths in Peru: Journalism without fear or favour
Shortly after covering some of the largest protests in Peru in more than a decade, alumnus, Martín Leandro Camacho, wrote a heartfelt email to the foundation: “My country is mired in a tremendous crisis,” he said. “Two young men have already died, around 40 people have disappeared and hundreds are injured. I ask you, please, to listen to my voice.” And so we did.
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The compassionate face of Peru
Thomson Foundation Young Journalist winner, Martín Leandro Camacho, has always been passionate about being compassionate. He recounts a childhood filled with stories of inequality, talks of his mission to tell stories with humanity at their heart and why investing in the future of young girls is important to him and his “feminist activist” wife, Mirtha Chong.
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Chronicling the challenges of Covid-19 in Syria
In his beloved city of Damascus, Syrian photojournalist, Hasan Belal, confronts the challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Travelling east of Damascus, in eastern Ghouta, he also chronicles the destruction caused by years of war and an urban landscape left severely scarred.
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Taking shots: Responsibly covering protests
Dynamic Kenyan filmmaker and photojournalist, Maurice Oniang’o, discusses the challenges of capturing dynamic images of social movements using footage from his recent documentary on police brutality, funded by National Geographic.
Preserving the pivotal moments of protests
Of the most universally recognisable images in photography, many are photographs of protests. Award-winning Egyptian photojournalist, Mostafa Darwish, revisits his work and explains the practical and ethical tensions at the heart of photographing violent protests.
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Strategies for safely capturing change
British-Sudanese journalist, Yousra Elbagir, actively supports black journalists to deal with traumatic news content and offers advice to black frontline journalists regarding solidarity protests with Black Lives Matter and similarly aligned groups.
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Covering demonstrations and civil disorder
Iraq-based freelance journalist, Pesha Magid, was a trusted voice from Baghdad when she documented civil unrest and an outbreak of anti-government protests in 2019. She reviews the risks that journalists face when covering demonstrations or repressive security forces.
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Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic
From what went wrong in the media's early coverage of the coronavirus crisis and creating meaningful stories through user-generated content, to teasing out the empathy in data and verifying in the midst of an infodemic, we've pooled advice from our international alumni.
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Uncovering stories with a human dimension
To mark the UN’s 2020 #WorldHumanitarianDay, hour by hour, we shared some of the humanitarian issues covered by 24 of our alumni in recent years, from tackling the deepening refugee crisis and reinventing dysfunctional areas of healthcare, education and the justice system, to quelling the rise of intolerance and extremism.
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A coronavirus photo essay from Bologna, Italy
Humanising a crisis as big and abstract as Covid-19 isn’t without its challenges. Award-winning photographer, Marco Panzetti, produces a new body of work to show moments of great instability in people’s lives and a unique place and time in history.
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The young journalists defending media freedom
Yousra Elbagir from Sudan, Waad Al Kateab from Syria and Alisa Kustikova from Russia work tirelessly to root out the truth and hold power to account. They remind us that journalists often have to fight for the cause of media freedom, in the public’s service, at great personal risk.
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Quiet reportage: Documenting the migrant experience
Marco Panzetti has invested significant periods of time making images that matter. He showcases his commitment to photography on an extremely complicated and quick-moving global story. But what his images really stand out for is for what they lack: obvious suffering and distress.
