Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
$400 - $1000 / Day
Rahima Gambo (b.1986) explores themes of postcolonial Nigerian identity, gender, history, memory and socio-political issues through long-term visual projects she began to formulate soon after completing her masters in Journalism in 2014. Her images have been published on the New York Times, Time Lightbox Photojournalism daily, Financial Times, Camera Austria, Quartz Africa, Forskning & Framsteg, Omvärlden amongst others. She was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Prize and listed as one of 15 Nigerian photographers to watch by the Nlele Institute. Her work has been exhibited at the Nlele Institute Lagos Open Range and at the 2015 Bamako Biennale. Rahima was a 2014 Magnum Foundation Fellow and is an International Women's Media Foundation Fellow. She was awarded as a finalist in the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2016. She has Masters from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (2014), Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics (2008) and BA in Development Studies from the University of Manchester (2007).
On May 29, 2015 Nigeria welcomed General Muhammadu Buhari as the new president. I was given an assignment to shoot the inauguration ceremony at Eagle Square and celebrations at Unity Fountain after the swearing in ceremony and also shoot video.
A short multimedia video about Bashir a student survivor of a Boko Haram suicide blast.
A long form multimedia narrative about the experiences of students attending schools in the midst of the Boko Haram insurgency in north east Nigeria. The work was funded by a grant I won from the International Women's Media Foundation to complete the project
A short video about secondary school students in Maiduguri for Part 1 of the multimedia series "Education is Forbidden" www.educationisforbidden.com
A short video about University students returning to campus in Adamawa State. It is part 2 of the Education is Forbidden Series.
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