Kate Holt photojournalist

Photograph c. Atem Elfatih/ JDO

The Joint Donors Office (JDO) in Juba launched a photographic competition in June of this year to mark their first anniversary.
Entitled "Captured Progress" it is aimed at encouraging both professional and non professional photographers from South Sudan, to document the change and progress that is happening throughout the country.
I was asked, along with Steve Morrison, the EPA correspondent from Nairobi, to facilitate the first workshop of the competition.
Of the eight photographers chosen, some worked at the Ministry for Information as photographers, others worked for the Juba Post newspaper, and others were chosen because they showed an interest and photographic ability.
Only four had used a computer before. But by the end of the weekend they had all managed to take and caption a digital photograph (like the one above) of some scene of change in Juba.