GENDA

• Photographer
  Photographer / FilmDirector Hiroshi Okamoto Photographer / FilmDirector Born in 1990, Tokyo. He was working as a NGO staff for 1year in several African counties like Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, DRCongo in 2011. After graduating, Hiroshi was working as an video creater and editor at a video production in Japan. Then also he started his career as a documentary photographer and film director. , Japan
• Studio
  Freelance

Addis Ababa is known as a capital city in Ethiopia and one of
huge city in Eastern Africa. If you go Addis, it is quite easy to
find such as green big boxes anywhere in the city.

"GENDA" means a big green garbage box in Ethiopia. In
Ethiopian society, usually people throw a garbage to "GENDA".

Then some of local private companies collect garbage from
"GENDA" by each local division. There are some of informal
workers to collect garbage locally. Those workers are mostly old
people. Besides women are many of them. They works to go and
collect garbage from each "GENDA" all day. The work is quite
tough and dirty environment but people work cheerfully with
their co-workers.

He was born in 1990. He grow up Tokyo. When he was a junior high school student, he dropped out school because of bullying in class. After that he entered university and studied social studies. He was working as a International NGO staff in U.S. and Zambia in 2011. During the time he started his career as a freelance photo journalist.

Awards 2015. Le PhotobookFest Paris, Rock your dummy award2015, Paris France – Shortlisted
2015. Portrait Salon 2015, London UK
2015. Photolux Festival self publishing award, Lucca Italy – Shortlisted
2015. Mainichi Shimbun Prize, Ueno Hikoma Awards, Fukuoka, Japan
2015. International Color Awards 2015 – Nominee
2013. International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention