Guillaume Bonn is an award winning documentary photographer who has for the last 25 years reported on conflict, social and environment issues.

He was a contributor to The New York Times and worked at Vanity Fair magazine for 15 years, covering a variety of topics ranging from the conflict in Northern Uganda, the Darfur humanitarian crisis and the ivory trade on the African elephants. His reportings has brought him to fourty countries on the continent.

However, while we all, in some way or another, tell stories, the type Bonn is compelled to tell is the kind ‘the world’, as he says, ‘is turning away from’ —be that helping break the Darfur crisis in the New York Times, exposing the sexual abuse suffered by children in the DRC at the hands of UN peacekeepers, or risking his life to uncover the machinations of Africa’s trade in ivory.

Be they urgent or quiet, Guillaume Bonn tells stories the world is afraid to hear. They pose real questions and as such demand real answers. New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes him ‘‘like an archeologist, who has the urge to seek out and preserve whatever amounts to a legacy of the past in East Africa. The difference is that he takes pictures, and that the past he seeks to record is quite a recent one.’’ Guillaume Bonn loves this Africa, urgently, thoughtfully, and unflinchingly. It sits in or behind or in front of every photograph he takes, images of unrelenting care, of the human and its environment, of a life demanding immediate change.

Guillaume Bonn has also directed a number of documentaries, including ‘Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond’ produced by French TV Canal+, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and shown on TV channels worldwide. He worked as a cameraman on the film documentary ‘Dying to Tell the Story’, nominated for an Emmy Award.

Guillaume is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is currently working on his 6th book based on his essay “The Analogue Mind: The Death and Reimagining of Photography”. He advises organisations pursuing wildlife and environmental agenda.