• Heléne Wikström

    Photography

About me

I am a passionate social-documentary photographer with a love of storytelling and portraiture, and also African material culture imagery. I enjoy meeting people in their homes and communities, preferable speaking their own language.

I am an also agronomist by profession and have lived, worked and studied across urban and rural locations in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, France and Sweden and I studied some months in Chile. I have lived 20 years in East Africa. I speak Swahili, French, English, Swedish and have some very basic knowledge in Spanish.

I have worked with international NGO’s, women’s groups, corporate clients and community-based organisations to document projects, spaces, objects and events. My approach to photography is rapport-based, subject-centred and reflects principles of informed consent.

I am available for projects of all kinds and keen to understand the key interests of clients. Please see portfolio and projects on this site and contact me below for any further information.

 

 

Portfolio

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Branding

Branding
Village mood

Village mood
Portraits of Children

Portraits of Children
Just being me

Just being me
Mifuko

Mifuko
Bird Carvings

Bird Carvings

Stories

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Published
Published

Published

 March 7, 2019
Lovely Mifuko ladies https://www.mifuko.fi/ International Day of the Girl Child https://www.lutheranworld.org/news/education-light-ignorance-darkness Australian Lutheran World Service’s Gifts of Grace Catalogue and Gift Cards with photos by Heléne Wikström from Kakuma in…
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Kakuma 2015 Women
Kakuma 2015 Women

Kakuma 2015 Women

 September 27, 2017
Encounters with some women in Kakuma town and Kakuma Refugee Camp in 2015 Mary and Safi in Kakuma Refugee Camp
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Just Being Me
Just Being Me

Just Being Me

 February 8, 2017
Encounters with some vulnerable children in Kenya My belief and hypothesis is that children in general long to be ordinary, to fit in, to belong and to be in an…
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