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PHOTOGRAPHER: Jonas Kako
Jonas Kako was awarded an honourable mention (photos catagory) in a youth photography and writing competition, launched by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with Transparency International (TI) to mark the 20th anniversary of TI, one of one of the world’s leading anti-corruption organisations. We asked young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to depict corruption and how to combat it. The competition was judged by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Transparency International and professional journalists and photographers.
In his words: “My camera has always been with me. In 2010 I joined a local Amnesty International group, learning about political injustice and corruption. That’s when I got more and more interested in social documentary photography.”
Jonas Kako, 21, was born in northern Germany and started taking photos as a little boy while on holiday with his family. Since then he has traveled around the world and always carries his camera with him. In 2010. Kako joined a local Amnesty International group. Learning about political injustice and corruption, he became more and more interested in social documentary photography. At the end of 2012, he journeyed for three months to northern India, where he said he experienced a whole new beautiful, but at the same time corrupt and hard, world. In October this year, Kako will begin studying documentary photography at the FH Hannover, Germany.
Kako was awarded an honourable mention in a youth photography and writing competition, launched by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with Transparency International (TI), one of the world’s leading anti-corruption organisations. We asked young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to depict corruption and how to combat it. The competition was judged by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Transparency International and professional journalists and photographers.
