Photographing the Sudanese Revolution: A Discussion With Duha Mohammed, Saad Eltinay, and Muhammed Salah

September 30, 2021
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A protester wearing a shirt saying, "A revolutionary from Kalakla, one fall, that's it" stands on Khartoum’s main railway line, which was part of the sit-in zone at army headquarters. Khartoum, 13 April 2019. Photo: Muhammad Salah

In April 2019, after thirty years of military dictatorship, theocracy, and years of civil war, the people of Sudan brought down Omar al-Bashir, the man who imposed an unchallenged reign upon them, starting with his coup d’état in 1989. Sudan’s popular uprising began in December 2018. For five months, risking arrest and torture by the regime’s police, the Sudanese people took to the streets by the thousands.

Driven by the will to document resistance and repression, a new generation of photographers emerged. These artists, aged between 19 and 30, broadcast their photos through social networks. They were both actors and observers of this historical moment.

In this event, Duha Mohammed, Saad Eltinay, and Muhammed Salah discuss photography in Sudan, how they pictured the revolution, and what comes next.

This event was recorded and you can watch the video here

 

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