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Teddy Mazina

Before living in exile for over 10 years in Belgium, Teddy, then a young student, decided to partake in the resistance against the gangs of gunmen affiliated with ethnic militias. At that time - we are in the early 90s - Burundi's capital Bujumbura is a city under siege, Balkanized, with whole areas controlled by militias who divided the city into ethnic neighborhoods. The organization he founded, Organization for Youth’s Future (OJF), used all means possible, to protect threatened individuals, Hutu or Tutsi (the two major ethnic groups in the country) without distinction, by helping them to escape, to find shelter ... When he decided to return home last year, Teddy Mazina began to build his multimedia studio, MDM Communications, then
he began Piga Picha 2010 so that from now on, there is a photographic memory of the life of this country ravaged by civil war and small arms. Among his colleagues, many are used to covering institutional politics issues, in addition to working on pre-ordered articles.

When not capturing the beauty of the country's people, Teddy prefers to invest in marginal areas, meet the landless, the homeless...
View a selection of his photos below or visit his website Read more

 

 

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