page_title: Photography of Sudan
section_title: Contemporary photographers
hierarchical_section_title: Photography of Sudan / Contemporary photographers
caption_attribution_description: English: Fishing on River Nile This is an image of "African people at work" from Sudan
context_page_description: Photography of Sudan refers to both historical as well as to contemporary photographs taken in the cultural history of today's Republic of the Sudan. This includes its former territory of present-day South Sudan, as well as what was once Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and some of the oldest photographs from the 1880s, taken during the Turkish-Egyptian rule. As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers has led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond. In the 21st century, photography in Sudan has undergone important changes, mainly due to digital photography and distribution through social media and the Internet.
  After the earliest periods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for which only foreign photographers have been credited with photographs or films of life in Sudan, indigenous photographers like Gadalla Gubara or Rashid Mahdi added their own visions to the photographic inventory of the country from the 1940s onwards.
context_section_description: Some of the notable contemporary Sudanese photographers of today include the professional  photojournalists Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, who has covered Sudan for Reuters multimedia news for more than 15 years and also is known for his imaginary fine-art photography, and Ashraf Shazly, who works for AFP/Getty Images in Khartoum.
  Other notable photographers, mainly active in non-commercial photojournalism, like street photography or documenting cultural life through fashion or other lifestyles, are Ala Kheir, Mohamed Altoum, Hisham Karouri, Sharaf Mahzoub, Nagi Elhussain, Sari Omer, Atif Saad, Muhammad Salah, Wael Al Sanosi aka Wellyce, or Ahmad Abushakeema and the female photographers Ola Alsheikh, Salma Alnour, Soleyma Osman, Duha Mohamed, or Eythar Gubara.
  Most of them are members of the Sudanese Photographers Group, and have been part of Sudan's upcoming generation of photographers since the 2010s.
caption: Fishing on the river Nile, by Eythar Gubara
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