Discover Top Freelancers in Senegal

John Wendle is a shooting producer DP, DoP, cameraman, photographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. Reporting on human and environmental conflict, science, and conservation, John creates video, photo and text story packages from some of the world's most remote and dangerous places. As a field producer for television, he employs a keen news sense and experience tracking down sources, as well as planning, logistical and budgeting skills to successfully complete shoots in remote or hostile locations. John has nearly 20 years of experience living and reporting in the republics of the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and now West Africa. He has worked in almost 20 countries and speaks fluent Russian and French. John's work has appeared in National Geographic, PBS, Scientific American, TIME, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Le Monde, The Times, The Guardian, Outside, The Economist, UNHCR, the ICRC, MSF, and many others. John has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Reporters Without Borders.

• Sound Mixer
• Colorist
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Transcriber

Annika Hammerschlag is a French and English speaking videographer, photojournalist and reporter who’s covered West Africa from Dakar, Senegal since 2019. She works primarily as a videographer for Al Jazeera English and VOA. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, The Economist, The BBC and The Guardian, among others. She's covered a variety of stories while on deployment throughout the region, including corruption and coastal erosion in Liberia, the jihadist insurgency in Mali and overfishing in Cape Verde. She received her master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School and her bachelor’s from UCLA. She’s a former staff reporter and photojournalist for the Naples Daily News/USA Today Network and a former photojournalist for The Daily Bruin. She’s a 2016 Overseas Press Club Scholar awardee.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Audio Storyteller
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator

I'm a video director originally from Paris, France, but currently based in Dakar, Senegal. With extensive experience working with international organizations and corporations, I specialize in producing high-quality video reports. In addition to video production, I also have a passion for photography, and frequently use digital cameras such as the Sony A7III and the Mavic Pro drone to capture stunning visuals. I am capable of managing all aspects of a project, from filming to post-production, ensuring a seamless and efficient process for my clients.

• Sound Mixer
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Event Photographer
• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Social Media Producer
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

Mbar Diop is a fixer, interpreter, professional photographer (journalistic, corporate, documentary) and news assistant based in Dakar. He has wide experience working with mainstream news organizations including CNN, The Economist, ARD ,VOA, African Development Bank, The Chronicles and BBC Travel Show.... Mbar is a multi-media specialist, assisting journalists gather news for WEB, TV, print, and radio. He combines a passion and professionalism in his work. Clients describe him as hard-working and resourceful, with a large contact list at his disposal.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Translator

Daouda Sow Senegalese journalist who capitalizes on more than ten years of experience in journalism. I am currently the editor-in-chief of the Dakar office of Moroccan television Medi1 TV, which is a pan-African channel. I have been interested for several years in issues related to climate change, defense and security issues as well as African politics and geopolitics. Considering myself an ETERNAL LEARNER, I also seek on a daily basis to strengthen my knowledge and experience in these areas mentioned above.

• Field Producer
• Social Media Producer

I am a French filmmaker and video journalist, from the « Centre de formation des journalistes » (CFJ) in Paris. I directed and filmed several long-format documentaries in remote places all over the world to relay human stories about exile and migrations, themes near to my heart (she made stories in Sudan, Iraq, Gabon, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, India, Martinique island, France, Malawi). Long format documentaries 2019 : « Women warriors », Al-Jazeera / « From Seine-Saint-Denis to Amazonia » (French high school students from poor suburbs who went to French Guyana to open their eyes to the world), France Ô 2018 : « L’appel », France 2 (Story of a French missionary and nurse during Mosul’s final battle) 2017 : « La famille de la jungle », France 2 (Story of a family who takes care of orphan gorillas in the middle of the jungle in Gabon) 2016 : « La loi de la jungle », France 2 (Story of migrants in Calais who try to catch the train and their dreams for England) 2015 : Documentary about sex-traffic trade in Martinique island, ATV TV channel 2014 : « No Maasaï land », France Ô (Maasaï people evicted in North-Tanzania)

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Marco Simoncelli is a freelance journalist and photographer. After graduating in journalism, he specialised in topics related to the African continent. For several years he worked as a correspondent, Maputo, Mozambique, where he covered mostly the Southern Africa countries. Now he is based in Dakar, Senegal, producing written, photographic and video projects about West Africa and the Sahel issues. He has also worked in Asia and in the Middle East.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

I am a journalist with over eight years of experience. I have spent the past seven years in Africa working in production and broadcast TV. I have reported and written for CGTN Africa, covering stories in East and West Africa. I am passionate about interacting with cultures and bringing stories to life.

• Senior Editor
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Post-Production Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

I am a French broadcast journalist, with 7 years of experience in TV and online media, shooting, editing, and writing news and feature stories. I have spent the last 2.5 years in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Previously, I worked in France and in Italy.

• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

My background is social media video; Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok. I currently work as a corporate video producer for a New Orleans based tech company and a freelance mini doc filmmaker.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Digital Content Creator

• Podcast Producer
• Social Media Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

• Senior Editor

• Senior Editor
• Copy Editor
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator

As a senior video producer, I am involved in both news, digital and documentary video production.

• Social Media Producer
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

Makhtar Fall A.K.A xuman I'm a song writer and artist. Born may 9th 1974 in Abidjan . I created in 2013 a tv program named JOURNAL RAPPÉ where we rap the news . It's a very popular program in Sénégal and in Africa .

• On-Air Reporter / Host
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Visual journalist and documentary photographer

• Audio Storyteller
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator

• On-Air Reporter / Host
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

Sira is a journalist, shooting producer DP, camerawoman and photographer based in Dakar, Senegal, covering West Africa and beyond. She has over five years’ experience working for international news organisations across two dozen countries, including in hostile environments. Prior to moving to West Africa, Sira worked as a staff foreign news producer and video journalist for BBC bureaux around the world, including in Brussels, Nairobi and Kyiv where she produced breaking news and investigations for the BBC’s flagship TV, radio and digital programmes. She’s worked at the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, covered the famine in Madagascar and has led investigations that were quoted by the UN Security Council, brought to the British High Court and been shortlisted for prestigious awards. Her work focuses on documenting climate change, migration, humanitarian crises, human interest and conflict across West Africa. Sira is HEFAT-trained and fluent in English, French, German and Dutch. She holds a master’s degree in International Security and Journalism from Sciences Po Paris and is currently a fellow of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Digital Content Creator
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

MARCIA JUZGA Based in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa Marcia Juzga, born on December 25 in Boston, USA. Director and audiovisual artist with over fifteen years of experience in film and television. Graduated with a technical degree in Film and Photography from the Unitec University from Bogotá, Colombia and courses taken in cinematography and documentary in La Havana, Cuba. 2000 - 2004, worked in Los Angeles, California as executive producer for Utopia Films and Ofrenda Films in the realization of TV commercials, music videos and independent films, while travelling through Europe scouting and pitching for customers to develop their advertising projects in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, thus supporting Latin American industry. 2004 - 2006, after the experience gained in advertising, starts directing reality TV-shows for the Hispanic Market and Community in Los Angeles and Houston, working for Channel 61/62 KCRW TV, experience that left lots of initiatives and expectations to pursue a directing career. 2006 - 2009, a self-financed three-year journey touring several Asian countries dedicated to capture and document multiple images (photo, audio and video) from the people and areas visited. 2009 – 2013, Bogotá, Colombia, worked as audiovisual director doing self-promotions for the National TV Station SEÑAL COLOMBIA. Also established a communications group visiting different isolated populations in the country hit by the violence of the inner conflict, supporting the return and restitution of the displaced, founding community radio and TV channels instructing and forming the local people in the basic technical issues so they can manage and produce their own content. Director and documentary researcher in different TV production companies in Colombia, thus participating in national and international programs. Among them, the most important are the documentary TV series "The name of the glory" from CM& and Señal Colombia, the documentary journalism series "Intervention" for A&E TV Channel and BeTV Productions, and her latest documentary "SOUNDS OF SAI" about the state of music production in San Andres island, which was included in several film festivals in Europe and South America. Currently living in Dakar, Senegal, where is dedicated to making documentaries for organizations such as USAID (The U.S Agency for International Development), UNCDF (United Nations Development Fund) , WORLD BANK GROUP, Amnesty International, Save the Children, among others.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fixer
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP