Pamela Tulizo is a documentary photographer and journalist, born in 1994 in Bukavu in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2020, she won the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents.

Biography

Pamela Tulizo was born in 1994. She was raised in

Goma Goma is the capital of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the Albertine Rift, the weste ...

, in the eastern region of the

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. She is a journalist by training and a 2019 graduate of the Market Photo Workshop in

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. She was trained by the artist Martin Lukongo, and lives and works in Goma.

Career

Tulizio began her career as a journalist before turning to photography as an artistic pursuit. Her subject matter raises awareness of Congolese women, their inner strength and resilience, despite the political, ecological, and economic instability of her region in Eastern Congo. Often seen as victims, particularly of sexual violence, the women from Goma she portrays in her photographs are clearly powerful individuals in the fight for social justice.

Exhibitions

Selective list * 2019: ''Double Identité''

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Biennial * 2022: ''Face to Face'', Maison européene de la photographie, Paris, from January 21 to March 13

Awards

* 2020: Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents for her series, "Double identity"

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tulizo, Pamela 1994 births Democratic Republic of the Congo women photographers Living people 21st-century women photographers People from Bukavu