Join a Photo Walk in your city this November!

Our 3rd Unpublished Africa Photo Week is approaching and we are excited to start sharing the upcoming events with you!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 4 new readers — Welcome to the community!

African Visual Storyteller of the Week

Our featured storyteller this week is Nahom Nigussie

Nahom Nigussie (Ethiopia) - "A Once-Lived Neighbourhood, now Completely Demolished on Both Sides.", 2025. (Published by Unpublished Africa in "Streets as Archives" Exhibition)

Unpublished Africa Photo Week is Approaching

Several photography related events will be held during our Photo Week in cities in Angola, DRC, Botswana, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe and we have more we will be sharing! These events will bring photographers together to explore their cities, take photos, and share different views of everyday life. They will also be an opportunity to meet likeminded creatives.

These are the events we have opened for registration. (Follow our pages to see more as they get announced):

🇿🇼 Chinhoyi Photo Walk:
🇺🇬 Kampala Photo Walk:
 🇰🇪 Nairobi Photo Exchange:
🇳🇬 Lagos Photo Walk :
🇿🇼 Bulawayo Photo Walk:
🇳🇬 Jos Photo Walk:
🇨🇩 Kinshasa Photo Walk:
🇳🇬 Yenagoa Photo Walk:
🇳🇬 Abuja Photo Walk:

Streets as Archives Exhibition Still Open

Sani Nuhu (Nigeria) - "Gidan Sarkin Zazzau Dalhatu in Zaria City, Kaduna State, Nigeria.", 2022. (Published by Unpublished Africa in "Streets as Archives" Exhibition.)

If you haven’t seen Streets as Archives yet, now’s a great time to explore it.

The exhibition highlights street photography from across Africa, showing everyday life, identity, and change through images.

It’s a chance to see how photographers are turning their cities into living records of the times. Visit the exhibition online and discover the stories captured on the continent’s streets: https://www.unpublished.africa/streets-as-archives-exhibition

Other Opportunities:

Opportunity

Organisation

Deadline

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

DW Traineeship

DW 

17/11/2025

Call For Submissions

Kenya Film Commission 

20/11/2025

Sony World Photography Awards

World Photography Organisation

28/11/2025

CCP Fellowship

ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

10/12/2025

Arab Documentary Photography Program

AFAC - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

10/12/2025

Entertainment Week Ghana

Entertainment Week Ghana

21/12/2025

American Black Film Festival 

American Black Film Festival 

31/12/2025

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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