Overview participating exhibitions
Making Oneself
2015
Making Oneself
Elly Rwakoma
studio work seventies and eighties
Like many Ugandans, Rwakoma Elly is a man of traditions and high moral standards. He was educated as a teacher and made his living as a social worker, but he’s most proud of his achievements as a photographer. Rwakoma was the presidential photographer, a photojournalist, and carried out photography assignments for companies and schools. His contribution to this exhibition focuses on images that he made in his studio and darkroom in the seventies and eighties of the last century.