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

rashajundi@gmail.com +2541189299 Kenya

Topics of Focus

Social, cultural and political topics (colonialism, colonial legacy, regligions, belief systems, food, other cultural practices)

Biography

Rasha Al Jundi 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, she volunteered with the Lebanese Red Cross and worked with a local NGO in coordinating rural development programs around Lebanon.


Between 2009 and 2021, she worked with several local and international civil society and non-governmental organisations, in West Asia and different parts of the African continent. Throughout, her camera was her companion. In 2018, she decided to strengthen her skills in storytelling using photography, and since 2021 she left the development aid sector to do just that.


She seeks to illustrate stories that she personally connects with. Her work generally follows a social documentary pathway and focuses on colonial links to social, political and cultural themes. In 2022, Rasha graduated from the Documentary and Visual Photojournalism program at the International Center for Photography (ICP), New York, and won several grants including the inaugural Tom Stoddart award from the Ian Parry grant (2022) and the Revolutionary Storyteller Grants from Photographers Without Borders (2024). She has designed and produced several zines and has been collaborating with other multidisciplinary artists for different projects. Her work has been exhibited in different cities including Amman, Beirut, Berlin, Jerusalem, London, New York and Tokyo.

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