Arlette Bashizi

Arlette Bashizi (born 1999, in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese documentary photographer and photojournalist whose photographic practice explores conflict, survival, public health, environment, culture, and the everyday realities of life in eastern Congo. Working across documentary photography, photojournalism, and long-form visual storytelling, Bashizi examines injustice, resilience, and community through human-centered reportage that keeps women and young people at the center of her images.  Bashizi is based in Goma, where she has developed projects and reports since 2018. Her work often engages war and its aftermath, climate crisis, mining, displacement, and civic life, using documentary observation and narrative sequencing to consider how people live through violence and structural instability while maintaining dignity and connection. She has worked for international media including Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, and she has also served as an advisor for UN organizations.  Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award shortlist, and in 2026 she was included among the artists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Arlette Bashizi lives and works in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.