3° Edition
Robin Hammond
Zimbabwe: Your Wounds Will Be Named Silence
Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to amplifying narratives of marginalised groups through long term visual storytelling projects.
Career recognition includes the winning of two World Press Photo prizes, the RF Kennedy Journalism Award, six Pictures of the Year International Awards, the W.Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the recipient of six Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism, and being named by Foreign Policy as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
He is the founder of Witness Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing human rights through visual storytelling. His work on discrimination against the LGBTQI+ community around the world, Where Love Is Illegal, has become a popular social media campaign. It has been exhibited around the world, featured in many publications including on the cover of Time Magazine and National Geographic. The work led to him addressing the United Nations in 2018 to promote a campaign to end the extrajudicial execution and torture of LGBTQI+ individuals. In 2022, Where Love Is Illegal, the book, was published. His work on mental health conditions and neurological disorders, In My World, has been used to influence governments and corporations to consider the rights of some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. It has raised tens of thousands of dollars for grassroots mental health organisations. In 2019, with his organisation Witness Change, Robin created 1000 Dreams. This project is designed to elevate the capacity of refugees in Europe to tell their own stories and to challenge and change the toxic narratives that adversely impact the lives of refugees. The work has been widely published and exhibited in many places including in the European Parliament. To date, 90 refugees have been trained in Europe and the US to become photojournalists, and nearly 950 stories have been documented. Robin is a National Geographic Explorer and contributing photographer. He has had multiple National Geographic Magazine cover stories including special issues on race and gender. He is the author of four photography books: Zimbabwe: Your Wounds Will Named Silence. Actes Sud, 2013 Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis. FotoEvidence, 2014 My Lagos. Editions Bessard, 2016 Where Love Is Illegal. Editions Bessard, 2022 To contact: Witness Change enquiries: robin@witnesschange.org. All other enquiries: pictures@robinhammopnd.co.uk
