Everyday Africa turnS 10!

March 2022 marked @EverydayAfrica’s birthday! On March 1, 2012, Peter DiCampo snapped the photo below in an elevator in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and Everyday Africa began. We grew into a collective of photographers working to expand visual storytelling of Africa and present a more accurate depiction of daily life. Along the way, we went from being a single feed to starting The Everyday Projects, which is made up of nearly 40 official feeds, more than 400 photographers, and hundreds of thousands of images.

The first Everyday Africa photo: Passengers in an elevator in a government building in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on March 1, 2012. Photo by Peter DiCampo.

“My career was influenced by the existence of Everyday Africa years before I became a member. It was one of the first platforms to show the African gaze on Africa and Africans. It created a movement and encouraged me to portray the continent and people the way I wanted to, versus how it was too often portrayed to fit the Western narrative.”

— Miora Rajaonary, Everyday Africa

Over the past 10 years…

We’ve had exhibitions of work by photographers from Everyday Africa and The Everyday Projects in more than 20 countries on six continents.

Everyday Africa exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany. Photo by Andreas Burmann.

We published a book

In 2017, Kehrer Verlag published Everyday Africa’s photo book featuring more than 250 photographs by 30 photographers.

We built and expanded our curriculum

We’ve worked with thousands of students at schools worldwide, broadening perceptions of life in Africa and guiding them through the creation of their own Everyday project to document their own communities.

A student in an Everyday Africa photography workshop in Mombasa, Kenya. Photo by Austin Merrill.

With our partners PhotoWings and Pulitzer Center, we built a curriculum that students can use to gain a broader understanding of life around the world, and then apply those lessons to their own lives, telling the stories of their own communities through photography. We're launching an updated curriculum later this year!

We became The Everyday Projects

Everyday Africa inspired photographers and storytellers all over the world to create their own Everyday projects. In 2014, we formed the umbrella organization The Everyday Projects, now a nonprofit dedicated to supporting this global community.

“I never thought I could be part of such an amazing community, a big bunch of professionals always ready to help, sharing and supporting each other.”

— Mustafa Saeed, Everyday Africa

We launched a podcast and publication

Repicture dissects pressing issues facing visual journalism and features candid conversations with photographers, academics, reporters, and editors on the ethics and practice of visual storytelling. Co-hosts Nyasha Kadandara and Tasneem Alsultan take on the topics of representation, mental health, sexual harassment, accountability, making mistakes, and self reflection. We aim to bring what are often private conversations into the public arena.

We expanded our community

We work with a community of hundreds of photographers. We strongly recommend that you hire them. You can see a full listing here.

With our partners World Press Photo, we created the African Photojournalism Database (APJD), a directory of emerging and professional African visual journalists.

We created an educational webinar series with Black Women Photographers

In 2021, with our partner Black Women Photographers, we produced The Essentials, a series of free photography workshops, with more than 650 students in more than 80 countries.

You can watch all of Season 1 and Season 2 here and learn more about the ins and outs of professional photojournalism.

The Essentials instructors: (Top left to right) Kiana Hayeri, Andrea Wise, Nicky Quamina-Woo, Danielle Villasana, Yagazie Emezi, Tara Pixley. (Bottom left to right). Alison Baskerville, Ela Stapley, Sarah Waiswa, Sarahbeth Maney, Olivier Laurent, Jehan Jillani.

We started a grant program

Our annual grant supports early-career photographers. 2021 grantees Salih Basheer and Tania Barrientos Radilla received $6,000 each and mentorship from Mallory Benedict, Photo Editor at National Geographic, and Jehan Jillani, Visuals Editor at The Atlantic.

At the core of The Everyday Projects’ mission is a belief in supporting photojournalists from diverse backgrounds as they develop their craft. This grant program is a new effort to help provide that vital support.

We have worked with leading publications worldwide

More than 80 publications have featured stories about The Everyday Projects, including The New Yorker, ABC News, BBC, and The Washington Post, and more than 100 outlets have published work by our contributors. Since mid-2020, we have produced collaborative projects of commissioned photography by a broad range of Everyday Projects contributors, including a piece on Covid-19 in HuffPost, five stories on the pandemic with NPR, and a 32-page spread on women and migration in National Geographic.

And we owe it all to our community, supporters, and collaborators.

Thanks so much to the many partners that we've collaborated with over the years, who have helped to make our work possible and impactful!
A special thank you to our Supporting and Programming Partners:

And thanks to our ever-growing community for making this all possible! It’s an honor to work alongside you.

“Everyday Africa for me was an eye opener to the continent I’m part of, a blessing to my eye and my career. This group is like a family, supporting each other and offering opportunities.”

— Roger Anis, Everyday Egypt

Help us continue our work

Our work is made possible in part by donors who believe in our mission to amplify a diverse range of photographers globally and to push visual narratives beyond media stereotypes. You can help us continue this important work by making a tax-deductible donation:

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