Born Different

An independent photojournalist originally from Mozambique, based in Prague. He has worked as a documentary photographer since 2004, collaborating with institutions such as the British Council and UNICEF. He has had a rich professional career focusing on war, refugee crisis and social issues. His work specialises in war conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, the refugee crisis on the Greek-Turkish border, documenting the situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he has been officially accredited by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence as a war photojournalist. In recent years he has also photographed climate refugees in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai. His latest project focuses on albino survivors of ritual attacks in Zambia. He is also a portrait photographer and has photographed many of the world's most famous people, including Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Jean Reno and Johnny Depp. His portfolio includes dozens of exhibitions around the world, lectures and workshops for students and the general public.

A Czech social and cultural anthropologist specialising in sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a PhD in ethnology from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Since 2015 she has been working as a researcher and assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology at Palacky University Olomouc. Since 2019 she has been the president of the Czech Association of African Studies. She has conducted dozens of field research projects in Zambia, Benin and Namibia and has lectured at several universities in Africa and Europe. She specialises in religious anthropology and medical anthropology. She is the author of dozens of academic articles and book chapters and five monographs of her own. She is co-author of the documentary film Black Czechs (Palacky University Olomouc in co-production with Czech Television, 2022). She is currently working on the book Born different. The challenges of living with albinism in Zambia, which will be published in 2024.