Photography as Advocacy—A Half Century of Oil and Misery in the Niger Delta

Antoine Heuty manages the Revenue Watch Nigeria program with the Niger Delta Citizens Budget Platform (NDCBP), a coalition of NGOs working on budget monitoring in the Niger Delta and with the Government of Bayelsa State in Nigeria. Prior to joining Revenue Watch, he was Public Finance Economist with the Poverty Group at the United Nations Development Program, New York.

Before founding Represent, Ina Howard-Parker was the Director of Communications for The New Press and former Publicity Director for Nation Books.

Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. He has photographed in over 60 countries. His images and essays have appeared in National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, GEO, Newsweek, and various other domestic and international publications.

Omoyele Sowore is a Nigerian journalist and activist who has spent the last 15 years working to promote human rights and democracy in Nigeria, and to stop the militarization and violence that multinational oil companies have brought to his country.

Michael Watts has written extensively on the oil industry in West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea over the last 20 years.