Winners have emerged in the Africa 2016 Photo Competition, a pan-Africa photography Competition focusing on Africa’s rapid modernization.
This year’s competition drew more than 2,500 photographs in 30 countries out of which 3 successful works emerged.
Announcing the winners, Agility, a leading global logistics provider, said the photographs depict how quickly Africa is modernizing, growing and even leading the way in new technology.
The winning images depicted a fisherman in a canoe on Lake Victoria on his laptop, a solar farm in Rwanda powering 15,000 homes, and the skyline of Harare, Zimbabwe.
A cash prize of $2,000 was awarded for each competition category. The winners were Stephen Simiyu, a photographer from Nairobi, Kenya (Technology); Henry Oliver Hakulandaba, an environmental consultant and photographer from Harare (Cities); and Esdore Hakizimana, a machine operator from Kigali, Rwanda (Industry).
Simiyu also won the Grand Prize of $2,000 for his photograph of a fisherman using a laptop in a canoe on Lake Victoria, Uganda.
The winning photographs and the runners-ups were featured at a session at the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this month and will be shown at the Thomson Reuters Africa Summit 2016 in Cape Town in October.
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