Are you Ready for Unpublished Africa Photography Week?

Our 3rd Photo Week is approaching and we are excited to start sharing the upcoming events with you!

Welcome to African Visual Storyteller! Your weekly guide to African photographers, exhibitions, and creative opportunities. This week, we’re joined by 76 new readers — Welcome to the community!


African Visual Storyteller of the Week

Our featured storyteller this week is Panashe Chimedza

Panashe Chimedza (Zimbabwe) - "Unity. Perspective Collapse Distance.", August 2025. (Published by Unpublished Africa in "Streets as Archives" Exhibition.)

The 3rd Unpublished Africa Photo Week is Approaching

We’re excited to start sharing our lineup of events for the 3rd Unpublished Africa Photo Week.

This year, we’re bringing Photo Walks and in-person to even more African cities! Would you like to join a walk? Let us know where you are.

Highlights from the Nairobi Photo Walk

The Nairobi Photo Walk brought photographers together to explore the city and capture everyday life from different perspectives. It was a great opportunity to connect, learn, and share ideas. Thank you again to everyone that came out!

Streets as Archives Exhibition Still Open

Elvis Onjiko (Kenya) - "The Singh Sabha Shrine, Kisumu.", 2025. (Published by Unpublished Africa in "Streets as Archives" Exhibition.)

If you haven’t seen it yet, our Streets as Archives exhibition is still open!

It showcases striking street photography from across Africa, capturing moments of everyday life, identity, and change.

Take some time to explore the work online and see how photographers are using city streets to document the stories and spirit of their communities: https://www.unpublished.africa/streets-as-archives-exhibition

Other Opportunities:

Opportunity

Organisation

Deadline

JustFilms Documentary Grant

Ford Foundation

30/10/2025

Rasoa Digital Agency- Videographer\ Photographer

Rasoa Digital Agency

30/10/2025

Video Editor \ Junior Producer

SemaBOX Africa

31/10/2025

Film Callout

Joburg Film Festival

31/10/2025

Merck Foundation Media Recognition Awards

Merck Foundation 

31/10/2025

Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

31/10/2025

Small Arts Grant

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

31/10/2025

Firstflightspro Short film fund

First Flights Media Ltd

31/10/2025

Open Call

The Sustainable Darkroom 

3/11/2025

2025 Sport Media Awards

AIPS Sport Media Awards 

4/11/2025

Namaste Video Contest 

Wai Lana

5/11/2025

European Union Short Film Competition

ECOWAS Commission

10/11/2025

Short Film Contest

The Film Fund

11/11/2025

Call For Submissions

Kenya Film Commission 

20/11/2025

Sony World Photography Awards

World Photography Organisation

28/11/2025

Entertainment Week Ghana

Entertainment Week Ghana

21/12/2025

Megacities Shortdoc

MegaCities-ShortDocs Citizen Short-Film Festival

18/01/2025

Minority Africa Call for Storytellers

Minority Africa 

rolling deadline

Pulitzer Center Grant

Pulitzer Center 

rolling deadline

Call For Global Collaborators

Young Leaders For Arts and Health

rolling deadline

We look forward to sharing more opportunities with you next week!

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