Photojournalist

Freelance Photojournalist.
*CNN African PhotoJournalist of the Year, 2012 (1st Runner Up) and Honourable Mention, 2013.
*Ex Reuters
*Trainer with VII Academy

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

With immense privilege, I am delighted to announce that, I have been chosen as one of the juries for the World Press Photo 2025. 🧵👇 #WPP2025 #WPPAfricaRegion

[Katumba Badru Sultan @Katumbabadru1]

Matatu- Kampala, Uganda

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

@Mugabiarts Oh dear! Really terrible to learn about Dads demise. I pray for strength to guide you through this horrible period. I wish your dad a peaceful journey.

[Ber Anena @ahpetite]

COVER REVEAL!!
I still can’t believe this memoir is almost here.
Out on November 10, 2026.
You can now #preorder at the link below:

https://t.co/VzDOIN5Hz0...

Huge gratitude to my publishers, Flatiron Books and Macmillan.

[Katumba Badru Sultan @Katumbabadru1]

A Couple kiss after taking their vows at the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) office during a civil wedding ahead of Valentine's Day in Kampala, Uganda, on February 13, 2026.

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

@bahizi_i @MyZeroCarbon @ClimateAtState @WBG_Climate @ClimatePower Well done, Ignatius! Really commendable.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The photographer Seydou Keïta captured the polymorphic consciousness of Mali, formerly known as French Sudan, as it came into its own. https://t.co/aOdFWeBigL

[Photojournalism News @PJournalismNews]

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Pictures of The Week https://t.co/xK22inWtcG @afp @afpcom @afpphoto #photojournalism #journalism #photography

[Photojournalism News @PJournalismNews]

EPA IMAGES: Pictures of the Week https://t.co/66SYJ5uuRI @epa_Images #photojournalism #journalism #photography

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

#Photojournalism

[Katumba Badru Sultan @Katumbabadru1]

A woman reacts as she receives a bouquet made of banknotes and flowers from her friend as a surprise ahead of Valentine's Day during a hangout in Kampala on February 7, 2026. Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have issued coordinated warnings against the growing trend of "money bouquets"

[World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto]

‘Mother Moves, House Approves’ by Temiloluwa Johnson is featured in the World Press Photo Yearbook 2025, our annual collectible publication showcasing the most compelling photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year.

Get your copy: https://t.co/rJ4ar7E7RA

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel https://t.co/JY8BdtOWV9

[Patrick Oyulu @patrickoyulu]

East Africa Archives.
1960. Before power, before titles, before fear.

Just boots, mud, and men - and Uganda still deciding who it would remember.

Ray Wolley, back row, third from left, is the only surviving member of this team. Now in his nineties, he lives in Zimbabwe, having played rugby for Uganda and Malawi in his youth.

Idi Amin Dada, back row, sixth from left -Uganda’s former president.

Some games, it turns out, don’t end at full time.

[Liz Cookman @liz_cookman]

Foreign correspondence has a problem.

What has happened at the @washingtonpost is awful, all job loses are terrible, and a shock to the whole industry. But the majority of international reporters have been operating for years without support, respect or pay. 1/5

[Photojournalist @echwalu]

Beautiful work, Luis Tato. #Photojournalism.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

In eastern Uganda’s Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay active and socially connected.

Referred to locally as “cricket grannies”, they take part in informal games and training that combine light exercise with elements of the sport

📸 Luis Tato

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

📸 The most photographed places on Earth.

[The New Vision @newvisionwire]

Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta shares a light moment with Olusegun Obasanjo and H.E Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia.

📸 Photos by Miriam Namutebi
#VisionUpdates

[Earth @earthcurated]

INCREDIBLE! Photographer captures the flight of the Himalayan monal, known as the “bird of nine colors.”

[For Africans By Africans @forafricxns]

Seen in Dakar, Senegal by Abigajla Conway

[Peter G. Mwesige @pmwesige]

@ACME_Africa, the organisation that I co-founded 15 years to champion media excellence, has joined the growing list of Ugandan NGOs suspended by the National Bureau for NGOs over engaging in "activities which are prejudicial to the security and the laws of Uganda..."
Clearly, this is part of a broader effort to silence scrutiny of public affairs as Uganda heads into general elections. Now more than ever before the independent media must rise to the occasion and provide accurate and credible information about the elections, monitor official power, and the activities of other actors, and facilitate vibrant public debate. That's what ACME has always stood for.

[Katumba Badru Sultan @Katumbabadru1]

Kampala, Uganda 2026