What is it like to be a photojournalist, and why would a Christian choose journalistic photographic work over advocacy?
From Dec 27 – Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world.
Here at at the Urbana conference in St Louis, photo journalist Micah Albert (website) (blog) talks to us about the role of photojournalism in society. Micah covers news and produces feature stories all over the world including Africa. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, BBC World, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, World Policy Journal, The Sacramento Bee, UNFPA, UNICEF, Runner’s World, The North Face among others. Micah has extensively covered Central and East Africa, notably DR Congo and Sudan. In 2013, Micah won a World Press Photo award for his photography of Dandora, Kenya, the largest dump in the world. [Read more…] about Why Is There No Photo About This? Challenging the Comfortable with Photojournalism