Raphael Njoroge

Finalist, the Sony Impact Award 2006

Kenyan

Shot: Kenya, May 2006
Self-funded, broadcast on KTN The Inside Story

“We all know there is this sort of low-level corruption in many countries around the world. Nonetheless, these are pictures we very rarely see. It is important that we get to see them and to remind ourselves that there are people out there taking great personal risks to expose wrong-doing.”
Judge's Comment
 
Secretly-filmed images of corruption by Kenyan military personnel and other government officials in the capital Nairobi, who are clearly seen in a back street siphoning fuel from official vehicles and then selling it to members of the public. Raphael shot, edited and voiced this piece himself.

Biography
Raphael Njoroge was born in 1968 in Kenya. He left school after completing primary education because his family could not afford to send him to secondary school. After leaving the military forces in 1997, he developed his hobby – photography - into a career and started working as a freelance photojournalist. He still works as a photographer and his ambition is to have a media centre for freelancers. Rafael likes to concentrate on human interest stories.