Hi, welcome to the UPPA 2021 Virtual Experience

UGANDA PRESS
PHOTO AWARD

Since 2012 the Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA) has offered support and exposure for Ugandan photojournalists and photographers.

These men and women strive to keep us informed of daily events, sometimes at great personal risk. We strive to remind the viewing public of both the importance of bearing witness and of a vibrant press for democratic development. Photographers were invited to submit single images, published or unpublished, to six different categories: News, Daily Life, People, Environment, Sports and Urban. Winners received equipment, training and professional contacts, as well as national and international publicity and recognition for their work.

Photos

UPPA 2021 Photographers

The world around us is changing fast, and as stakeholders it is our job to understand and keep up with those changes.

Cultural, socio-political, environmental and technological issues affect individuals and societies and the way we live. The old collides with the new at every turn. The East African Photography Award was created in 2018 to give a platform to visual stories that show the region and its people and cultures in a new light. It is an opportunity to share varied perspectives and showcase different and individual identities as East Africans. The fourth annual EAPA accepted submissions from visual storytellers from the Eastern African region: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Stories

EAPA 2021 Photographers

MENTORSHIP
PROGRAMME

Each year since 2016 we invite a small group of young Ugandan photographers, often chosen from the Young Photographer Award’s shortlist, to take part in an immersive and fast-paced program that seeks to provide support with professional development, allowing them to make the leap to full-time photography. From conceptualizing a project idea to researching, photographing, editing, and finally working on presenting their photographic work as a part of the annual winners’ exhibition.