Are you a photographer? Una tamani kufika mbali na kuwin awards mbalimbali? Well, some photographer tayari wameacha big milestones na kubreak records!

“Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali is the first African and second woman to win the Prix Pictet. Her series Ça va aller (It will be OK) is made up of ornate patterns embroidered on to photographs that depict Grand Bassam after a group of devastating terror attacks in March 2016.”

Joana Choumali alishinda the eighth Prix Pictet kupitia series yake ya “Ça va aller” (it will be okay) na kuwa the first African na the second woman to receive the award that comes with a cash prize of 100,000 Swiss francs, sawa na TZS 253,310,167. 

Choumali’s series consists of photographs she took in the Grand Bassam three weeks after a group of devastating terror attacks in March 2016 that she turned into embroideries.

The jury recognized her work as a, “brilliantly original meditation on the ability of the human spirit to wrest hope and resilience from even the most traumatic events”.

Choumali alizaliwa na kukulia Abidjan, Ivory Coast na baadae kwenda kusoma Graphic Arts in Casablanca.  Alianza career yake as an art director in an advertising agency na baadae akaingia kwenye photography in which her personal style includes conceptual portraiture, mixed media and documentary.

The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography, founded in 2008 by the Geneva based Pictet group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to the global audience.