Curator Selection / 2023 / /

• Photographer
  John T. Pedersen, Norway
• Category
  Africa
• Studio
  Freelance
• Website
  http://www.johntpedersen.com
• Instagram
  @photographer_johntpedersen

Moreen Ajambo is a 34 years mother of seven children, and lives in Katanga, a large slum settlement in Kampala, Uganda. To provide income for herself and her children, she cooks homemade food and sells it to a customer in the neighborhood. She also works as a hairdresser, and takes on the assignments what she can get. In addition to this, she is a boxer at the Rhino boxing club and a member of Ugandas female national boxing team.

John T. Pedersen (1966) is an independent photojournalist based in Norway, with a particular focus on humanitarian issues. I have worked for a number of newspapers, trade press, magazines and agencies.

Affiliated with the national newspaper Dagbladet in Oslo.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2019/37713/1/John-T-Pedersen

Awards 2012- Årets bilder (Norway) 3rd prize Portrait.

2019- World Press Photo Contest, Sports, Singles, 1st Prize winner.

2020- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Boxing in Katanga.

2020- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. A gift from God.

2020- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Last stop Uganda.

2020- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Trampoline life.

2021- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. The seniors at the vaccine center.

2022- IPA - The International Photo Awards, 2nd Place in the category Event, Social Cause.

2022- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Inhabitants in Katanga.

2022- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Acid violence against women in Uganda.

2022- IPA - The International Photo Awards Honorable Mention. Survive in Katanga.

2022- Lens Culture Summer Open 2022 winner.

2022-Budapest International Foto Awards, 1st place in the category Events. Festival people.

2022-Budapest International Foto Awards, Gold winner in the category Editorial-Environmental. Inhabitants in Katanga.

2022-Budapest International Foto Awards, Gold winner in the category Events-Other. Festival people.

2022-Budapest International Foto Awards, Bronze winner in the category Editorial-Personality. Acid violence against women in Uganda.

2022-Budapest International Foto Awards, Bronze winner in the category Editorial-Environmental. Survive in Katanga.

2022- Life Framer, Humans of the World, 2nd prize with this image of Gloria Kankunda «I’m Not a Victim, I’m a Survivor"