Jacinta Legei, 44, advances the women's traditional praying group in the dry Dol Dol landscape. The prayer ceremony is held for rain amid the ongoing drought. It usually lasts for four days. The people in this area have not had good rains for the past three to four years. The landscape is dry and its full of invasive cacti species. This combination leads to increased deaths among their livestock. Consequently, poverty is widespread. Dol Dol, Laikipia county, Kenya (February 2022).

Rasha Al Jundi

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Biography

Rasha Al Jundi (1984) is a Palestinian documentary photography and visual storyteller. She grew up in the UAE, after which she moved to Lebanon to pursue higher education. During her seven year stay in Lebanon, she volunteered with the Lebanese Red Cross and worked with academic research organisations and a local NGO in coordinating rural development and environmental programs around Lebanon.


Between 2009 and 2021, Rasha worked with several local and international civil society and non-governmental organisations as a program manager, in the Middle East, north and sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout, her camera was her companion and she used it to document stories of the people she served during those years.


Her work generally follows a social documentary pathway. She aims to focus on decolonizing oversimplified narratives around historical injustices and their contemporary impact on individuals and marginalised groups. She seeks to illustrate those stories that she personally connects with and sees herself through their progression. Rasha is an Ian Parry scholar and a 2022 graduate from the Documentary and Visual Photojournalism program at the International Center for Photography (ICP).

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