About · Watsemba Miriam
About.
01 · Bio
Award winning documentary photojournalist, based in Uganda.
Watsemba Miriam is an award winning documentary photojournalist based in Uganda, with a background in Journalism and Communication.
She is passionate about storytelling, and believes that stories can be an effective avenue for driving change and development. Her dream is to help people express themselves authentically, through storytelling.
Miriam is a multiple time grantee, who has published and exhibited both locally and internationally. Through her works, she seeks to archive the truth and provoke action.
- Based in
- Uganda
- Background
- Journalism & Communication
- Practice
- Documentary photojournalism · Storytelling
- Recognition
- Multiple time grantee · Published and exhibited locally and internationally
02 · Clients I’ve Worked With
Organisations, agencies and institutions.
03 · Published & Exhibited
Selected publications and photo essays.
- 26 August 2026Alice Otuwa
- 26 August 2026Velocity Xperience 2019
- 6 July 2020Beyond the Statistics: The real life stories of refugees behind Uganda’s generous refugee policies.
- 12 September 2018Unseen
- 9 August 2017CHOOSE MELLENIALS, CHOOSE CHANGE, CHOOSE THE FUTURE.
- 17 April 2017Sun Set At The Lake Side.
- 7 June 2016BRUCE MUGERA’S BEST AND WORST MEMORIES IN MUK.
- 7 June 2016THE GOOD AND BAD SIDE OF MAKERERE UNIVERSITY KAMPALA
- 4 June 2016MAKERERE UNIVERSITY’S NINETY YEAR TREK
- 10 May 2016LEGEND
- 5 December 2015MARRY FROM YOUR KIND
- 22 November 2014A LETTER TO YOU, MY UNAVOIDABLE FRIEND.
- 25 June 2014TO YE DOUBTING THOMAS…
- 10 May 2014LIVING SIMPLE
- 1 May 2014HAPPINESS
- 9 February 2014VALENTINE
- 4 January 2014UNBINDING ONESELF
- 22 August 2013WHO NEEDS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE…?