the african media entrepreneur » Ruth de Vries http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:30:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Twenty Ten Exhibition in Cape Town http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2010/12/13/twenty-ten-exhibition-in-cape-town/ http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2010/12/13/twenty-ten-exhibition-in-cape-town/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:15:11 +0000 David Larsen http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/?p=680 I was down in Cape Town last month for the installation of “Twenty Ten on the Road” the exhibition from the Twenty Ten project. The Twenty Ten project has been a partnership between World Press Photo, FreeVoice, Africa Media Online and lokaalmondiaal and funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The project enables over 120 journalists from 34 countries in Africa to be trained ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and then produce content on the run up to and during the tournament telling the story of Africa’s first soccer world cup from and African perspective. That content was offered to market, was used to create a book and is now presented in this traveling exhibition.

Above: Setting up the exhibition in a mad rush after it was held up in customs for longer than expected.
The exhibition was designed and created by World Press Photo in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and first exhibited as Africa Scores in the Tropen Museum during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. My colleague at Africa Media Online, Karla Kik and I were there with our colleagues from World Press Photo on the morning of November 18 helping to install the exhibition at the Waterfront in Cape Town just outside the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island – ideal for maximizing foot traffic. The opening was that night and Ruth De Vries, Frederiek Biemans (both from World Press Photo) and I shared a platform with Dutch Consular General in Cape Town, David de Waal, and with Prof Johannes Gerwel, the chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation(among many other significant appointments).

Above: In a prominent spot at the Waterfront the exhibition, which comprised still pictures and multimedia, saw a large number of visitors over the 10 days it was on show.
The exhibition opening was a great success with a sizeable crowd. Dominique Le Roux, who had been on the editorial team for the project was there, so too were four of the participants – Alexia Webster, Davison Mudzingwa, Samantha Reinders and Nikki Rixon. It was also good to catch up with Africa Media Online contributing photographers like Terry February, Paul Grendon, Chris Ledochowski, Jeremy Jowell and Clare Louise Thomas. It was also good to see old friends like Sari Potter (who used to be the picture librarian at South Photographs), Ryland Fisher (a former editor of the Cape Times and Executive Chair of the Cape Town Jazz Festival), Pam Warne (Curator of Photography and New Media, Iziko Museums of Cape Town), and talented Cape Town photographer Julian Goldswain. The evening also included a screening of “Twenty Ten: Through Our Own Eyes” a documentary produced by one of the project partners lokaalmondiaal. The exhibition now travels to Zambia, Kenya, Ghana and Senegal.

Above: Click on the image to see it larger. The 24 metre long exhibition which formed an amphitheatre for the showing of multimedia, packed into a shipping container.

]]> http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2010/12/13/twenty-ten-exhibition-in-cape-town/feed/ 0 Ghana are the first African team to qualify for the first African World Cup! http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2009/09/08/ghana-are-the-first-african-team-to-qualify-for-the-first-african-world-cup/ http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/2009/09/08/ghana-are-the-first-african-team-to-qualify-for-the-first-african-world-cup/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:36:01 +0000 David Larsen http://media.blogs.africamediaonline.com/wordpress/?p=50 David Larsen in Accra, Ghana.

Well Ghana won convincingly and what a colourful event it was! The celebration of winning over Sudan was heightened by Mali failing to win over Benin outright which pushed Ghana through to becoming the first African team, outside the host nation, South Africa, to qualify for the first African World Cup.

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Above: I asked Manual Neneyew before the match if Ghana is going to win today – this was his reaction!Get rights to this picture on Africa Media Online

Our team of 12 photographers and 11 reporters have been flat out producing the first stories and photo features of the Twenty Ten project. The reporters produced news and analysis based around the match on Sunday night in the aftermath of the match which we delivered to the Ghanaian press and then yesterday, each wrote more enduring features that will be going online shortly. The next assignment they will produce will be in-depth features with universal appeal that will be produced when they are back in their 11 different home nations.

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Above: Zimbabwean photographer Davina Jogi gets the other angle, capturing the press frenzy as the two captains perform the toss.

The first output from the photographers was a single image from the assignments they have been working on. The gallery can be viewed here. Today they will be starting to file their in-depth features which will be coming online over the next week.

Tomorrow we wrap up the first workshop here in Ghana and the journalists each gear up to produce another two assignments from their home countries in the next six weeks. The project team in turn work hard toward the next workshop to be held in Egypt during the U20 FIFA World Cup.

The work that has been produced has been of such quality that an Agency in Japan and another one in China have just contracted with us to dstribute to those markets.

Below: Twenty Ten journalists and team members get to grips with the the Ghana-Sudan clash and have a lot of fun doing it!

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DLA_20090907_6356Left: Nigerian photographers, Andrew Eisebo (right) and Adolphus Opara (centre), engage with a Ghanaian cheer leader

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Left: Zimbabwean photographer, Davina Jogi checks her camera between shooting in the Ohere Djan stadium

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Left: Nigerian photographers, Andrew Eisebo (right) and Akintunde Akinleye (centre), follow the triumphant Ghanaian team off the field at the close of the match

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Left: Nigerian photographer, Andrew Eisebo (right) uses creative measures to get a shot of star Ghanaian striker Michael Essien

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Left: South African journalist, Lucky Sindane (left) and Zimbabwean photographer, Davina Jogi, enjoy the post match celebrations

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Left: Andre from lokaalmondiaal gets friendly with senior Ghanaian security personnel. Andre is producing a documentary on the Twenty Ten project and spent the week following Twenty Ten journalists and photographers

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Left: lokaalmondiaal director, Stefan Verwer (left) and Marc de Boere (right) run http://www.roadto2010.nl/ and were working on producing a book from the project that will be published in Holland by KIT Publishers

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Left: Overall project co-ordinator, Ruth de Vries, from World Press Photo gets into the mood

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Left: Kenyan photographer, Julius Mwelu captures a portrait of a Ghanaian cheerleader

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Left: World Press Photo award winning photographer and photographer trainer, Chris de Bode interacts with Ghana’s self-proclaimed Number 1 Supporter, Oboa Samuel

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Left: Pulitzer prize winning photographer and photography trainer, Greg Marinovich, gives expression at the end of an amazing media event

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