Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2017/jury

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Born in Cape Town in 1962, David Brazier studied photography at the Harare Polytechnic after which he travelled extensively with his camera. In the early 1990’s he founded a small professional studio in Harare focusing on architectural, environmental and development assignments and worked as a stringer for Agence France Press in Harare. His architectural work has been published in the New York Times, the International Ove Arup Journal and the Architectural Review. His photos have been featured in the Zimbabwean Review journal, Revue Noire, the cover of TIME Magazine (Africa), National Geographic Africa, Claiming Landscapes, Warscapes, Ogogii magazine. [1]

Doris Anson-Yevu aka Kafui is a Ghanaian photographer and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Photowalk Ghana and works as Programme Manager at Impact Hub Accra. Find her work on Flickr. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

Habib M'HENNI is a long time Wikipedian and Wikimedia, amateur photographer, and contributor to Wikimedia Commons. He is very actively involved in Wikimedia Tunisia User Group. He also was a member in Wiki Loves Africa Jury in 2014 and Jury in 2015. Contact: http://about.me/habibmhenni

Ibtihel ZAATOURI is a Tunisian photographer and a French language teacher. She created an ONG of Tunisian photographers in 2012 in Tunisia and participated in many exhibitions. Her photos are published on the cover of the German newspapers DW and Ijab magazine also in web journals. Her photographs can be found under her Flickr channel.

Jacques KOUAO is a professional photographer who, with bloggers and friends, decided to visit various cities of Ivory Coast in search of these men and women that provide real and pragmatic solutions to the problems of their communities. The story of their adventures since January 2015 is available on helloafrika.net. Jacques is also co- founder of the Wikimedia User Group Ivory Coast.

Michael Maggs is the Chair of Wikimedia UK and is an administrator and bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons. He has been a keen photographer for many years. Examples of recent projects to record theatre and opera performances can be found here and here.

Sebastiaan Ter-Burg is a photographer and videographer that releases most of content under a CC BY license through Flickr and Vimeo. Some of that material is available on Wikimedia Commons. He worked as project manager cultural cooperation at Wikimedia Nederland from February 2013 until April 2015.