World Cup project trains up new African photojournalists

The World Cup hasn’t just been about the soccer – it’s also brought many opportunities for the people of South Africa, and other nations on the African continent.

One of those opportunities was the Twenty Ten project, designed to train new African journalists from 34 countries, then get some of them covering the event and its impact on the wider community.

Dr DJ Clark, course leader of the MA in International Multimedia journalism run jointly by universities in the UK and China worked with Israeli photographer Jonathan Torgovnik to conduct some workshops with some of the rising stars from Twenty Ten, and has written up his experiences.

There were, of course, obstacles to overcome:

“With equipment costing sometimes two or three times more than in developed countries and agonizingly slow internet speeds it was quite a challenge for us to help the entrants produce work of any quality.”

The multimedia pieces produced by those rising stars can be seen on the Twenty Ten website.

In an interesting move in these days of give-it-all-away-online, the content that’s been produced thus far can be viewed for free on the website, but is also for sale in high res formats.