All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Picturing Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation 06/11/2020 | 2 MINS Picturing Idi Amin: 22 OctoberΓÇô14 November, Tues-Sat, 12pm-5pm | Schenberg Room, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Idi Amin was the subject of hundreds of thousands of photographs over the course of his eight years as president of Uganda (1971-79). It had been thought that these photographs created by the official photographers from the Ministry of Information were lost to posterity. However, in 2015, Richard Vokes, working with Winston Agaba and Malachai Kabaale at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) in Kampala, uncovered a filing cabinet full of 70,000 lost photographic negatives from the Amin years. In 2018, the UBC, in partnership with Lombok Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, launched a project to digitise this important collection, and to bring it into public view both in Uganda, and throughout its Diasporas. Picturing Idi Amin brings together a selection of images and audio-visual materials from this work
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Picturing Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation 06/11/2020 | 2 MINS Picturing Idi Amin: 22 OctoberΓÇô14 November, Tues-Sat, 12pm-5pm | Schenberg Room, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Idi Amin was the subject of hundreds of thousands of photographs over the course of his eight years as president of Uganda (1971-79).
It had been thought that these photographs created by the official photographers from the Ministry of Information were lost to posterity.
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However, in 2015, Richard Vokes, working with Winston Agaba and Malachai Kabaale at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) in Kampala, uncovered a filing cabinet full of 70,000 lost photographic negatives from the Amin years.
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In 2018, the UBC, in partnership with Lombok Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, launched a project to digitise this important collection, and to bring it into public view both in Uganda, and throughout its Diasporas.
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