Nelson Mandela Foundation

It is with great sadness we received the news of the passing of Juda Nwenya.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation wishes to send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Juda was one of South Africa's foremost news photographers and a friend of the Foundation.

After his sterling career at Reuters news agency where he served as Chief Photographer Southern Africa he began his new life as a freelance photographer. Part of his work was to photograph for the NMF. He also participated in our exhibition Between States of Emergency which honoured the photographers who sacrificed so much to tell the world of the brutal realities of South Africa during the states of emergency in South Africa in the 1980s.