Kat Grudko

An experience that moved me as an afro-descendent is when I did the Put Foot Rally through the 6 Southern African countries (from South Africa through Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and back into South Africa) in 2012. To see so many people wanting to explore their continent, people and cultures before the rest of the world ment so much to me. I think that it is so important for people to understand where they come from and for us to experience what goes on in our own country and in our bordering countries to truly understand who we are and how we fit in as Africans. I am a #RepresentationMatters ally an I am amplifying melanated voices by photographing real African people and documenting their stories by submitting them to Pichastock. It is important for me to be a part of telling the real and raw story of all Africans so that people around the world can see what Africa and Africans are really like.

• #pichaproud
• Cape Town
• Photographer
• South Africa
• South African

Nana Kwame Obuobi Bekoe

I make sure to encourage my melanin girls to love their skin through my images that I create.

• #pichaproud
• Blackisbeautiful
• Ghana
• Ghanaian
• Photographer
• PICHA

favouranyula

I was once denied freedom of speaking my mother tongue in my country because someone else from a Western country felt uncomfortable with me speaking yet they spoke in a different language that I too could not understand

• graphic designer
• Kenyan
• muso
• Photographer
• traveller
• visual storyteller