Guillaume Bonn Photographer

Photographer - Author - Safari expert - activist - board member of African Network of Animal Welfare (ANAW) - Vanity Fair magazine contributor - www.guillaumebonn.com Third generation of a family all born in Africa, Guillaume's first adventure started at the age of six in the Danakil desert and has been on Safari ever since. He studied Politics and Economics in Montreal University and graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York. Photographer and filmmaker who has for the last 20 years reported on conflict and social issues in Darfur, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, and Mauritania mainly for The New York Times and others like: Time, Newsweek, The Guardian magazine, 6 MOIS, The Observer magazine, Granta, Wall Street Journal magazine, the Sunday Times magazine, Monocle, New York magazine, Conde-Nast Traveler, The New York Times magazine among others. He and writer Marc Lacey were the first journalists to cover the Darfur crisis for The New York Times, from within Sudan, bringing world wide attention to the crisis, they also uncovered the sexual abuses committed on children in Congo by UN peace keepers. Received a PDN photography Annual Award, nominated to the 2012 and 2013 Pictet Prize and Winner of POPCAP12 Prize for Contemporary African Photography. Recipient of a grant from the Pulitzer center in 2014. Author of 3 photographic books, including his first monograph "Le Mal d'Afrique, a journey into old and new Africa", which was exhibited at the Nairobi National Museum and which some Photographs are now part of the permanent collection of the museum and part of several private collections around the world. He directed a number of short documentaries for CNN inside Africa program and worked as a cameraman on "Dying to tell the story", a 90 minutes CNN documentary which was nominated for an Emmy award and directed "Peter Beard scrapbooks from Africa & beyond" produced by CANAL + on the American artist, which was screened at the Sundance film festival and shown on TV channels worldwide. He edited and also photographed with 12 other photographers the book “Nairobi" an exploration of a city by writers and photographers published by Kwani trust published in June 2009. He lives between Paris & Nairobi, and has been a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine since 2002, from whom he has been covering a range of stories, from the conflict in North Uganda, with the late Christopher Hitchens, and the murder of conservationist Joan Root near Lake Naivasha, with Mark Seal, to the haute couture shows in Paris or being the only invited photographer at the wedding of the son of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. His last story being the now famous "Agony & Ivory" on the African Elephants and the ivory trade which brought needed attention worldwide to the genocide elephants are facing on the African continent. Guillaume is currently working on two books, and one with writer Jon Lee Anderson. http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/guillaume-bonn