Sinawi Medine

Based in France since 2009, I grew up in Eritrea and began photography as a self-taught artist before moving towards photoreportage. For several years I have been developing documentary projects on migration and exile, a way to keep track of the present but also to bear witness to the human condition. More broadly, my work questions social justice, dignity, and the value given to the Other, the one who is different, the one who arrives. Through photographic narratives, I explore what makes society; from experiences and stories where individual and collective trajectories meet, I seek to create bridges, proximity and propose new perspectives to apprehend reality. My work has been published in the national and international press and exhibited in different institutions.

Awarded from the Society for News Design in 2018 for an appearance in the Washington Post for the story "Survivors" about rescues in the Mediterranean.
National Geographic Explorer since 2019
Awarded for a photographic commission from the French Ministry of Culture in 2022