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Oluyinka Ezekiel Adeparusi, Nigeria

August 13, 2013
https://p.dw.com/p/19LXE
Portrait des Fotografen Adeparusi Ezekiel Oluyinka, Gewinner des Publikumspreis für afrikanische Pressefotografen innerhalb des Deutschen Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik 2013.
Deutscher Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik 2013 Medienpreis Adeparusi Ezekiel OluyinkaImage: privat

Yinka Adeparusi is a photojournalist who uses his camera lens not only to record the "what," but the "why" of a scene as well. He now works for the National Mirror newspaper in Lagos after time spent as a trainee reporter and photojournalist at two other Nigerian publications, The Punch and New Age. Adeparusi graduated from the prestigious Lagos State University School of Communication, achieving double honors in both photojournalism and cinematography.

The winner of multiple awards for his work, Adeparusi feels especially drawn to reporting human rights issues through powerful images. He hopes his work exposes the problems confronting his immediate environment and Nigerian society in general.

In his winning photograph, Adeparusi captured an image of several children about to paddle home from school in Makoko, the slum where they live which is raised on stilts over Lagos Lagoon. Education is often described as one of the most powerful weapons against poverty. But in the Makoko floating slum, the poorest settlement in all of Nigeria, many children have little hope of ever seeing the inside of a classroom. These kids are a few of the lucky ones.

*** VERWENDUNG NUR BERICHTERSTATTUNG MEDIENPREIS ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK *** Schulkinder in einem der ärmsten Slums von Nigeria, Makoko. Foto von Adeparusi Ezekiel Oluyinka, Nigeria. Gewinnerfoto des Publikumspreis für afrikanische Pressefotografen innerhalb des Deutschen Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik 2013.
Image: Adeparusi Ezekiel Oluyinka

Link to paper: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/