Discover Top Editorial Photographers / Photojournalists in Pretoria, South Africa

Laura Lopez Gonzalez is a freelance health reporter and editor based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lopez has 15 years of experience covering health globally and within Southern Africa, covering health in countries such as Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Lopez has headed up the news desks of half of South Africa’s specialist health reporting outlets. She is a three-time winner of South Africa’s prestigious Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award. Her work has appeared in publications such as Al Jazeera, The Guardian, El Pais and the UK’s Tribune. She has also researched international health funding flows for the Open Society Foundations and consulted for Doctors Without Borders. Lopez holds a bachelors degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a masters degree from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the US Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Follow her on Twitter @LLopezGonzalez

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Dianne began her career in newspapers at the prestigious Cape Town newspaper The Cape Argus where she reported on high profile high court cases as well as human interest stories. The bright lights of television beckoned and she joined eNCA shortly before the launch of the 24-hour news channel. She returned to newspapers as a senior investigative and legal reporter at The Sunday Independent newspaper in Gauteng. After two years she returned to eNCA this time entering the online department as a senior reporter. She has won a number of awards for her work as a reporter. Dianne has worked as the News Editor of The Times and TimesLIVE. She has been the Head of News at POWER 98.7, a Johannesburg-based radio station and worked as Head of News and Current Affairs at Newzroom Afrika where she helped to set up the 24-hour news channel. She later took up the role of Special Project Editor at the channel. In late 2021, Dianne joined the Timeslive group multimedia team as Editor for Video.

• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
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• Executive Producer
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• Audio Storyteller
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• On-Air Reporter / Host

PEOPLE, STORIES, HUMAN STORYTELLER Director, Journalist, Filmmaker My storytelling reshapes perceptions of Africans. Combining a genuine connection to people with my careful craft in constructing stories, I produce emotionally engaging work. I enjoy complicating and deepening how we see ourselves as Africans. My career has taken me across the African continent, as well as to the Middle East and the United States working with organisations including Vice News, Al Jazeera English, France24, TRT World, the Music In Africa Foundation, Public Radio International and eNews Channel Africa. I have a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. In 2017, together with partner Nick Alexandra, I co-founded Seithati Media, an audio-visual storytelling company producing film, video, television, and audio content. We have done work for clients including the UN Human Rights Office, Amnesty International, Goethe Institut, Music In Africa Foundation, Motsepe Foundation and Global Citizen. Kit: Two Sony 4K Cinema cameras, the FX6 and FX3, with tripods. Sony G Master f/2.8 lenses: 24-70mm &70-200mm. Sound: Sony UWD-D27 2 person lav mic set & Sennheiser MKE600 shotgun microphone, with Zoom H5 when sound needs to be recorded externally. My lights include Godox FL150 S LED key light along with 2 smaller Godox LEDs. Gimbal: DJI Ronin RS2. Drone: 4K DJI Mini 3 Pro (and a 4K GoPro Hero 5).

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• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
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• Digital Content Creator
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Joseph Maramba is a multi-media journalist with over 15 years experience. In his early journalism years he worked as a writer at The Chronicle in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe before moving onto radio at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation's Spot FM Radio where he produced and presented various content on Farming, Health and Art. He later moved to a music radio station, ZBC's Power FM in Gweru and hosted a number of artists and authors on his radio shows before moving into Organisational Communications at The Methodist Church in Zimbabwe's Harare office. There he worked on various forms of media both for print and online, producing film and photo documentaries for internal and social platforms. He later worked for Zimpaper's Capitalk 100.4FM Radio as a sports and a mid-day radio producer and presenter. His experiences have contributed to his versatility as he continued to produce his very own podcast called The Joe Mars Podcast in which he continued with having interviews with artists and authors from all over the globe. He is also a keen videographer and photographer, skills that he has picked up along the way, creating an events photography company in Harare and later moving it to Johannesburg, South Africa where he currently resides.

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Multimedia Journalist and communication specialist with a passion for African and Middle Eastern development. Experienced in telling stories that inform, engage, and inspire audiences across the continent and the Middle East. Expertise in research, writing, editing, and multimedia production.

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Freelance writer based in Harare.

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Freelance multi-media journalist.

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I am a multi-skilled, motivated, creative, innovative, experienced media and communications professional, journalist and lecturer. I have worked in several mediums and for several broadcasting and production companies in both in South Africa and abroad. I covered a wide variety of topics. I am currently specializing in agriculture, science, tourism, lifestyle, aviation and environment. I just love visual mediums and I see video journalism and and the internet as the future. I am currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I love to travel to lesser known places in the world looking for those interesting and lesser known stories about science, agriculture, tourism, environment, lifestyle and environment of not only my own country but also all other places where my work and life my take me. I can work in English, Afrikaans and German. I also understand Dutch. I have a BA (Business Communications) and a MA (Business Communications) degree.

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• Video Editor - News
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• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
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James Oatway (b.1978) is an independent South African photographer. He graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree (B.Journ) in 2000. His work revolves around themes of political and social inequality as well as people affected by conflict. He was the Chief Photographer and Picture Editor of the Sunday Times newspaper. Oatway has received various international awards including multiple Pictures of the Year International (PoYI) awards. In 2015 he was named the South African Journalist of the Year. In 2018 his Red Ants project won the prestigious Visa d’or Feature Award at the Visa Pour l’image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France. On 18 April 2015, during a wave of xenophobic violence, he photographed the murder of a Mozambican migrant by South African men. His name was Emmanuel Sithole. The images of the attack sparked outrage and made international headlines. The army was deployed and mass demonstrations were held across the continent. His work has been published in The Guardian, Stern, Internazionale, Le Monde, TIME, Harper’s Magazine, Paris-Match, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times and others. Oatway works extensively in Africa. He often works with humanitarian organisations such as UNICEF, UNHCR and Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Oatway has taught documentary photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. He is affiliated to Panos Pictures. He has two wonderful children who he loves with his whole heart.

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Ilan Godfrey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At nineteen he moved to England to pursue his photographic profession. During this time he gained a BA (Hons) degree in Photography from the University of Westminster in London and was awarded the David Faddy Scholarship to continue his studies, receiving an MA degree in Photojournalism. He spent eleven years working between Johannesburg and London before returning to settle in South Africa in 2011 to focus on several long-term projects. One of which would evolve over two and a half years into the Legacy of the Mine. This resulted in Ilan receiving the prestigious Ernest Cole Award in 2012 to support the completion of this in-depth body of work. Legacy of the Mine was published as his first book in 2013 and was launched in conjunction with solo exhibitions across South Africa at the UCT Erma Stern Museum, Cape Town, KZNSA Gallery (KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts), Durban and the WAM Gallery (Wits Art Museum), Johannesburg. Ilan Godfrey’s current and ongoing personal photographic practice focuses on extensive issues that reflect South Africa’s constantly changing landscape, documenting the country with an in-depth, intimate and personal conscience. By conveying through long-term projects a process of exploratory narration with photography, he reveals varied aspects of societal change across the country. He works with various institutions and organisations worldwide and has been recognised locally and internationally by various photography awards, including most recently the POPCAP ’14 Prize Africa (winner, 2014) resulting in his work will be exhibited at seven major photographic festivals around the world, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (finalist, 2014), the OPEN Photo Award in conjunction with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (winner, 2012), the International Photography Award (honorable mention, 2009) and the Magenta Flash Forward Award (selected winner 2007 and 2008) among others. He has participated in the Toscana Photographic Masterclass in Italy (2008) and was a recipient of the Ivan Kyncl Memorial Photography Placement in London (2007). Ilan’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg and Musée du quai Branly in Paris. His photographs have been featured in a broad range of leading international publications

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I'm a Johannesburg based journalist working with photography, videography and the written word. My work has been published through local and international publications, primarily through the Associated Press, European Pressphoto Agency and Reuters. I worked for local South African publications such as The Citizen and The Sunday Times. I have also worked with various NGO's such as the UN and 350africa. I grew up in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and read literature, philosophy and psychology at university level, graduating with my Honors in neuropsychology. From there, I worked in multinational corporates for a period of two years, but found this unsatisfying. Throughout this period I had been working as a photographer as well, and began to pursue this full time. My work over the last few years has pivoted toward my interest and passion - press, investigative and documentary work.

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• Video Editor - News
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Working now at frayintermedia producing documentary and short form video as well as online and social media friendly video. We do animations, full length video or just clips. I use Panasonic pro gear with lapel miss, booms, and the whole shebang. Or just a Smartphone. A lot depends on the requirements. Editing on FCP and Adobe Premiere, Motion and After Effects we produce content for companies, NGO's, and publishers/broadcasters. We do aerial footage (I'm a pilot) and I manage our small team in production. Experience includes news, investigative reporting, broadcasting, online and digital production, managing a mobile phone applications company, online editor for Business Day and Financial Mail, radio reporter for Radio 702. Life experience is pretty vast, along with a huge diversity in media work experience.

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Leon is an independent photojournalist and a photography trainer, currently working with the Wits Centre for Journalism as a Mentor in Photography to its postgraduate journalism students. He has a decorated history of working in different newsrooms as a photojournalist and picture editor. He has travelled and worked in Zambia, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa. Furthermore, he is freelancer for Bloomberg News and Daily Maverick, doing both Video and photographic stories in South Africa. He is also the creator of the “Man in the Green Blanket“, Mgcineni Noki’s Marikana photograph. Qualifications: Bachelor of Business administration in Media Operations Management, Boston Media, 2020

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I am a freelance Videographer & photographer with more than 15 years experience in the media industry and have covered assignments in more than 25 African countries. I am also regular contributor to BBC News and Reuters TV. I worked as a Video Journalist on BBC News’s flagship Africa business programmes, Africa Business Report, Talking Business Africa and In Business Africa. Before joining BBC News, I worked as a Multimedia Journalist at Primedia Broadcasting, where I covered major news events in South Africa such as the FIFA 2010 World Cup and filmed the infamous shooting of 34 mine workers at Marikana Mine in August, 2012. I have also covered photographic news assignments for the European Press Photo Agency (EPA) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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• Video Editor - News
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I am a video and photo journalist based in South Africa, covering all spheres of interests, from important and breaking news, to documentary features, to special character stories and developments . I cover business to entrepreneurship, youth development and sport, food and culture to fashion and science. You name it and I am happy to cover it all, build a team for your production requirements, and we'll have fun producing it. We love to tell stories to worldly audiences in a fair, ethical and relative manner. Call and/or email... +27849921214 / x

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I'm a video journalist / shoot-edit based in Johannesburg, ZA. I have worked extensively across Africa for the BBC and a number of NGO's. At the BBC, I worked primarily for their business magazine shows, Talking Business Africa, In Business Africa and Africa Business Report, presented by Lerato Mbele-Roberts. I have been the shoot / edit for a number of BBC's special features such as "Working Lives: Mauritius" and "On My Street". I also work for some domestic agencies such as MNET ("Carte Blanche"), eTV ("The Devi Show") and TimesLive.

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• Video Editor - Documentary
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I'm from the East of Johannesburg, born and bread in Kathlehong. I'm a photographer/videographer who loves what I do, I have been doing photography for over 6 years now and started doing video about 2 years ago. I started learning photography from my Mother then went on to study it at Market Photo Workshop. I have done some of my own personal projects, most of my work is more on documentary and events. I would love to see myself documenting some of the best and most beautiful stories all around the world.

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My passion is to create video content through engaging storytelling and captivating visuals. I have filmed adventure series in the wildest destinations on the African continent, short films in some of the most remote places on earth, covered events for brands like Corona and filmed in studios under controlled conditions. I understand that great content creates and maintains an audience, which helps my approach to filming and creating stories that are fresh and cutting edge.

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I am a freelance multimedia producer and photographer based in Johannesburg South Africa. I have close to 7 years experience as a journalist and over the years have acquired various skills necessary to work effectively in the ever-changing media environment. I am a story teller who uses a combination of mediums to get to the crux of the story. My skills include writing, photography and video. I am also a video editor, script writer and radio journalist.

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i am a Documentary DP, specialising in NGO productions.I have filmed projects for Flight Centre FoundationUK and South Africa, along with projects from Rise Against hunger.My passion is to tell stories that i feel need to be addressed and heard. I have filmed many corporate videos, commercials (2nd AC) and music events..I have a big passion for music and promoting new artists.

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• Corporate Videographer
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