The winning photographers of this years UPPA Press Photo Award have been announced.
This year’s Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA), continues the tradition of recognising and awarding some of the best photography and photojournalism within the country. This year Ugandan photographers were invited to submit bodies of photographic work responding to the theme ‘Beyond the Headlines’.
They say: Through this theme, we hope to give a platform to photojournalists and documentary photographers across Uganda to introduce viewers to diverse stories through their work. Through their journalistic and creative voices, they will delve deeper into the critical issues of our age and bring to light thought-provoking photo stories of Uganda’s shifting economic, political, social and technological landscape.
Kuloba Peter Tera’s response to the theme, titled “Basani Barura (The Men are Getting Out)”, was chosen as the best effort to picture stories hidden beyond the headlines in Uganda. Going beyond the single image Imbalu depiction, Tera’s photo essay delves further into the different aspects of this centuries-old cultural practice of the Bamaasaba/Bagisu people in Eastern Uganda. It is the initiation of boys in puberty into manhood and officially starts in August after the sighting of the second full moon.
An exhibition presenting all the winning images from this year’s East African Photography Award, Uganda Press Photo Award and Young Photographer Award will be open to the public from October 20th at Makerere Art Gallery in Kampala until November 12th.