A Portfolio Of Pictures Taken For NGOs Around Africa
NETS FOR LIFE 14-21 APRIL BUNKEYA DRC CONGO PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
NETS FOR LIFE 14-21 APRIL BUNKEYA DRC CONGO PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
NETS FOR LIFE 14-21 APRIL BUNKEYA DRC CONGO PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
Work for Nets For Life in Katanga Province, DRC. Photos John Robinson.
palliative nursing care in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
palliative nursing care in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
palliative nursing care in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Course work For a BA HONS in Media and Cultural Studies at UKZN. Photos John Robinson.
Eye testing in Warwick Junction. Reading glasses were provided to those needing them, others were referred on to local eye clinics for further testing. OCTOBER 2010 DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
WORLD SIGHT DAY 8 OCTOBER 2009. World sight day 8 October 2009 Marathon Cataract operation process returns sight to 21 patients in Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. For Sam Ndimisana (a retired painter) this is the second time that he has had this operation. He had his left eye’s cataract removed in may this year and now it is the turn of his right eye. Now he will be totally reliant on the artificial replacement lens that will take the place of his old cataract ridden eyes. For Sam he will gain sight in his right eye and full bi focal sight and depth perception too! Edendale Hospital is a South African government hospital with the usual shortages of funds and facilities, but for the event of World sight day effort is made to make a change in the sight of the patients. The cost of the operation is about $500.00 per patient and it is the world’s most efficient too. Dr Mohammed Iqbal Rahmtoola is one of many registrar Ophthalmic surgeons training at the facility and he is at the end of the line of case finders and ophthalmic nurses who work in small rural clinics who will refer patients to this hospital. He and other doctors will review each case and perform this life changing procedure. 7 – 9 OCTOBER 2009 PIETERMARITZBURG SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
Eye testing in Warwick Junction. Reading glasses were provided to those needing them, others were referred on to local eye clinics for further testing. OCTOBER 2010 DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
GAINING A LITTLE CONFIDENCE… The Cataract removal procedure is the world’s mostÊperformedÊmedical procedure, it takes theÊOphthalmicÊsurgeonÊabout 40 minutes and when it’s over theÊrecipientÊof the new lens will have clear vision in that eye. Looking through aÊstereoscopicÊmicroscopeÊtiny cuts are made into the eye and working under the bright light of the microscope theÊsurgeonÊcuts up and then removes the old cataract ridden lens from the patient’s eye. A new artificial lens then replaces the old. Costing aboutÊUSD 500.00Êper procedure and providing clear sight once again for the patient for the cost it is also one of the worlds mostÊefficientÊtoo.Ê The patients forÊtheÊoperationÊcome from across the rural back roads of Kwazulu-Natal, they are generally old and the cataracts have gradually reduced their sight to the point that they no longer have viable vision, Kwazulu-Natal a place of hills, trees, cattle and goats, with vistas that let the viewer see for miles and miles. Tugela ferry is about as traditionally Zulu as you can get. Imbued with the values, it’s the heart beat of the Zulu nation and here pride and independence is a thing of great value.Ê But. When you are old and blind these values that are beholden take a bit of a knock. The government hospitals across the provinceÊhaveÊtrained up eyeÊnursesÊand case finders who work in the community and do a basic examination and refer these people onto the cataract removalÊprogramme. The stay in hospital is little more then a night or two, and the results are as Gogo (granny) Ntombi Ngema will tell you are bright. Shaking her hands and speaking through her grand daughter she saysÊthatÊshe can see clearly, “you can tell everyone that I can see now, I was not afraid of the procedure… i was ready for it”. She held up her hands with the fingers raisedÊandÊmoving them from left to right, and with a glow in her eye she begins to talk of a life of change. “I could not walk around on my own” Ntombi lives in a h
GAINING A LITTLE CONFIDENCE… The Cataract removal procedure is the world’s mostÊperformedÊmedical procedure, it takes theÊOphthalmicÊsurgeonÊabout 40 minutes and when it’s over theÊrecipientÊof the new lens will have clear vision in that eye. Looking through aÊstereoscopicÊmicroscopeÊtiny cuts are made into the eye and working under the bright light of the microscope theÊsurgeonÊcuts up and then removes the old cataract ridden lens from the patient’s eye. A new artificial lens then replaces the old. Costing aboutÊUSD 500.00Êper procedure and providing clear sight once again for the patient for the cost it is also one of the worlds mostÊefficientÊtoo.Ê The patients forÊtheÊoperationÊcome from across the rural back roads of Kwazulu-Natal, they are generally old and the cataracts have gradually reduced their sight to the point that they no longer have viable vision, Kwazulu-Natal a place of hills, trees, cattle and goats, with vistas that let the viewer see for miles and miles. Tugela ferry is about as traditionally Zulu as you can get. Imbued with the values, it’s the heart beat of the Zulu nation and here pride and independence is a thing of great value.Ê But. When you are old and blind these values that are beholden take a bit of a knock. The government hospitals across the provinceÊhaveÊtrained up eyeÊnursesÊand case finders who work in the community and do a basic examination and refer these people onto the cataract removalÊprogramme. The stay in hospital is little more then a night or two, and the results are as Gogo (granny) Ntombi Ngema will tell you are bright. Shaking her hands and speaking through her grand daughter she saysÊthatÊshe can see clearly, “you can tell everyone that I can see now, I was not afraid of the procedure… i was ready for it”. She held up her hands with the fingers raisedÊandÊmoving them from left to right, and with a glow in her eye she begins to talk of a life of change. “I could not walk around on my own” Ntombi lives in a h
In Eye Clinics in Rural and Urban KwaZulu Natal.
Photos John Robinson
June 1998 Children looking through a window at the Seyama school in Mali ©John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique education rural ipjr01450113
June 1998 Seyama Mali youths at the local school ©John Robinson/South Photographs education africa afrika afrique ipjr01450126
Outside a School in Mali. Photos John Robinson.
An Out Working of a Teaching Style, Alexandra, South Africa. Photo John Robinson.
Rural Zimbabwe. Photo John Robinson.
ipjr09440427a September 2004 Otach IDP Camp Nyala Janub Darfur Sudan View across Otach IDP Camp. An IDP (Internially Displaced People) Camp on the outskirts of the town of Nyala. There are about 80,000 people who have been displaced from their villages by the Janjaweed milita, that raped, murdered and burned and their villages forsing them to leave and seek refuge in IDP camps across the Darfur region of Sudan. The Janjaweed milita is backed by the Government of the Sudan. ©John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique arab african genocide janjaweed milita armed horsemen.
ipjr09441634 September 2004 Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan The face of the choir master and the hands of the members of the choir. The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The Rumbek Peace Choir was formed out of five local choirs, each contributing a few members. “music is like a newspaper, through our music we communicate the message of peace” ©John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food
ipjr09440306 September 2004 Gebeiaulia IDP Camp Khartoum Al Khartoum Sudan Mother and child at Gebeialia IDP Camp. Gebeiaulia IDP Camp is about 35 kms from the city of Khartoum. the IDP camps around the city have been bulldozed and are being moved away from the city, as the “land has been zoned for other use” ©John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique arab african genocide janjaweed milita armed horsemen. refugees refugee
September 2004 Beliel IDP Camp Nyala Janub Darfur Sudan Drawings in the sand, camels, ak47s and rpgs the stuff of a genocide. Members of the Dinka tribe draw in the sand images of the camels and weapons of the janjaweed milita, that raped, murdered and burned and their villages forsing them to leave and seek refuge in IDP camps across the Darfur region of Sudan. ©John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique arab african genocide janjaweed armed horsemen camels rpg ak47 rape murder Sudan drawings war art
ipjr09441717 September 2004 Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan “Give us an education” Rebbeca Akoi The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The students of Rumbek, these students have been at war or at least affected by war. They could be orphans, they have run from war. For their age they should be in university, they are still working on their high school education… ©John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food
Internally Displaced People in Darfur, Sudan, and South Sudan and a Choir Master in Rumbek, South Sudan. Photos John Robinson.
ipjr09686505 17-21 april 2005 mozambique colour negative 35mm development projects in manica province and maputo province mozambique. vasco ngomana and his wife betha, are one of the many small scale chicken farmers in manica province. sun flowers are grown for their oil and as a grain for feeding their indigenous chickens. they have also built their own home from the profits of their small enterprise. ©John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature mozambique development rural agriculture farming farmers small scale farming subsistance farming sunflowers for oil and chicken food.
ipjr09687036 17-21 april 2005 mozambique colour negative 35mm radio muthiyana 93.5fm is a community radio based in maputo and is just on of many community radio stations africa. radio club is when the people targeted by the radio gather to listen to the station often on just one communial radio cassette player. the listening members of the community listen to the presentations and then with the player they record their ideas feelings, complaints and these recordings are collected and used for future programing. ©John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature mozambique development legal justice law gender community radio peoples voice ideas opinions vox pox presenters dj disc jockey radio studio recording programing
Farmers and a Community Member in Mozambique. Photos John Robinson.
Goat herder in Uganda. Photo John Robinson.
ipjr10614821 july 2006 kinshasa democratic republic of congo libres et justes (free and fair) elegance and the ballot box, a woman places her choice. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country’s history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project © john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
ipjr10614913 july 2006 kinshasa democratic republic of congo libres et justes (free and fair) woman and her voter’s card. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country’s history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project © john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
ipjr10615016 july 2006 kinshasa democratic republic of congo libres et justes (free and fair) children playing football in the santuary of a city compound the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country’s history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project © john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
During the 2006 Democratic Elections in Kinshasa, DRC. Photos John Robinson.
ipjr11041923 urban youth, programs, shelters western volunteer plays ball with children in kwamashu, kwazulu-natal south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright © john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street
ipjr11042118 urban youth, programs, shelters innercity youth play soccer (football) in albert park, durban south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright © john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street
ipjr11049429 urban youth, programs, shelters youth do homework as a younger child looks on at a shelter for girls in pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright © john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street
ipjr11049437 urban youth, programs, shelters two girls sit on steps as one braids the hair of her friend in pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright © john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street
Around YFC Youth Projects in Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Photos John Robinson.
Inner city preschool facility in DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA in cooperation with the community and faith based funders this preschool makes it possable for the working class parents to go out to work. PRESCHOOLING NOVEMBER 2007 DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA. PHOTO JOHN ROBINSON
A Congolese man (with back to camera) with his sister and child. ” please do not show my face as I am afraid” He lives as a refugee with his family in Durban South Africa. November 2007 DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO JOHN ROBINSON
Day Care for Refugees and a Family from DRC in Durban, South Africa. Photos John Robinson.
School students on bicycles provided by a project to aid rural school students with school fees and transport. development, roads, education, water, farmers, farming, soy beans, irrigation, rural projects in the dundee, jozini, ulundi and kwamashu areas of kwazulu-natal south africa. March 2009. N.B. NOT FOR SA PUBLICATION PRIOR TO 30 JUNE 2009. PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
A redistributed farm grows soy beans, the origonal farmer has stayed on to mentor the new owners… development, roads, education, water, farmers, farming, soy beans, irrigation, rural projects in the dundee, jozini, ulundi and kwamashu areas of kwazulu-natal south africa. March 2009. N.B. NOT FOR SA PUBLICATION PRIOR TO 30 JUNE 2009. PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
a single lane low level bridge crosses the tugela river where woman collect river water for home use. development, roads, education, water, farmers, farming, soy beans, irrigation, rural projects in the dundee, jozini, ulundi and kwamashu areas of kwazulu-natal south africa. March 2009. N.B. NOT FOR SA PUBLICATION PRIOR TO 30 JUNE 2009. PHOTO/JOHN ROBINSON
Rural Development in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Photos John Robinson.
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, TEAM MEMBERS OF THE GELUKSPAN WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, A FATHER WHO IS DISABLED.
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, TEACHING SKILLS…
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, TEACHING SKILLS…
CREATE CBR DISABLE RIGHTS Traditional leader reading the South african Constitution.
Disability Awareness in North West and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Photos John Robinson.
Trench / Coke bottle gardening. A water efficient method of vegetable gardening for subsistence use. Using a trench lined on the bottom with newspaper and husks to act as a water sponge. A perforated soda bottle is placed on the layer of paper and husks and surrounded with layers of fertilizer and soil to water and grow vegetables. A layer of hay or leaves are placed over the trench to act as a mulch to protect the soil from drying out on hot sunny days. Sobantu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, July 2013. Photograph John Robinson
Trench / Coke bottle gardening. A water efficient method of vegetable gardening for subsistence use. Using a trench lined on the bottom with newspaper and husks to act as a water sponge. A perforated soda bottle is placed on the layer of paper and husks and surrounded with layers of fertilizer and soil to water and grow vegetables. A layer of hay or leaves are placed over the trench to act as a mulch to protect the soil from drying out on hot sunny days. Sobantu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, July 2013. Photograph John Robinson
Trench / Coke bottle gardening. A water efficient method of vegetable gardening for subsistence use. Using a trench lined on the bottom with newspaper and husks to act as a water sponge. A perforated soda bottle is placed on the layer of paper and husks and surrounded with layers of fertilizer and soil to water and grow vegetables. A layer of hay or leaves are placed over the trench to act as a mulch to protect the soil from drying out on hot sunny days. Sobantu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, July 2013. Photograph John Robinson
Trench/Coke Bottle Gardening in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Photos John Robinson.
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