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“A picture is worth a thousand stories.” Ethical visual storytelling has a key role in addressing migration issues. Thus, in meeting up her mandate, of providing access to information, UNESCO through its partners organized a two-day capacity-building workshop for photojournalists on ethical issues as it relates to images in covering migration issues.

Professor Edward Akpomera, Department of Political Science of the University of Benin in his session believes that “Storytelling with the use of images can be educating and entertaining and so use your images to balance the narrative as it concerns migration” Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that employs images in order to tell a news/story or give an empirical narrative on related matters.

The renowned and internationally acclaimed editorial and documentary photographer George Osodi gave inept and detailed techniques of taking images that speak to the audience.

This was a hand – on experience, which gave the participants in-depth knowledge of the subject matter.

This training workshop is the first part of the series of the activity in which the participants would document stories relate to irregular migration. The participants’ documentation is expected to feature in a public photo exhibition, coming up in June in Federal Capital Territory.

This activity is part of an ongoing project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation (MAECI) via the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) Through the “Fondo Africa” aimed at empowering young men and women to make informed decisions on migration issues through better access to quality information (SGD16.10)