ONE hundred of the world’s top photographers will descend upon Africa on February 28 to take photographs of the vast continent to be published in a book entitled “A Day in the Life of Africa,” organisers said on Thursday. From the Congo river to Morocco and Rwanda, the photographers will attempt to capture a day in the life in the continent’s 53 countries. The photographs will be compiled in a book, Internet site, and travelling exhibition — the proceeds from all of which will go to fighting Aids in Africa. More than 10 Pulitzer Prize winners, dozens of photographers and photojournalists from the Magnum agency and AFP and 20 African photographers number among the 100-person team. – AFP
Thursday February 14, 2001