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Zimbabwe’s Charmaine Chitate Bags Getty Images Creative Grant for Impactful Documentary Work
May 7, 2025
Published by My Afrika Magazine on May 07, 2025
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Charmaine Chitate, a Zimbabwean documentary photographer, has spent years crafting stories that examine identity in the context of climate change, food security, health, and livelihoods. Her lens offers a nuanced, human-centered view of underrepresented communities—particularly in Africa—often left out of global…
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Getty Images Awards $20,000 to Global Storytellers Reshaping Disability Representation
May 6, 2025
Published by Getty Images on May 06, 2025
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From St. Louis to Zimbabwe, this year’s recipients are dismantling old frameworks—and building new ones through imagery.
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New York — May 6, 2025: Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in partnership with the National Disability Leadership Alliance…
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The Create Fund: An Interview with Charmaine Chitate
December 4, 2024
Published by SHUTTERSTOCK on December 04, 2024
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When you’re in a space where women photographers are often questioned and doubted, would you still keep going? For Charmaine Chitate, that’s precisely why she keeps going.
Shutterstock Create Fund Winner, Charmaine Chitate.
Like many other countries, being in the creative industry doesn’t…
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The Digital Creatv - Interview with Charmaine Chitate
September 9, 2024
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Aaand we’re back! We start off the second half of our season with an interview of my good friend Charmaine Chitate.
Charmaine Chitate is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist working with computer-based media for over fifteen years. Anchored in photography and storytelling, her work is an exploration of her understanding of…
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Through her Lens: The story of Charmaine Chitate
August 7, 2024
Published by AFRICAN FEMALE VOICES on August 07, 2024
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Charmaine Chitate. Photo by
Charmaine Chitate is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist with over fifteen years of experience in computer-based media. Her work, rooted in photography and storytelling, explores her understanding of identity and its manifestations. In 2018, she was recognized as…
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Vanessa’s Story - ‘Measure Twice, Cut Once’
January 14, 2022
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JANUARY 14, 2022: The only female student in a carpentry class of 42 students, “When we write tests, most people want to sit next to me so that they copy me because they know I am good,” Vanessa shared. Oripah, her mother, added, “We want her to go to a…
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Understanding the Patterns of Power Affecting Women
November 9, 2021
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MAY 31, 2021: At 43 years old, SEBINA MASUKUTA carried eight pregnancies to term- four of them being home births, “My last pregnancy was difficult. I didn’t have enough to eat, and the baby kept threatening to present early because of my asthma attacks. My daughter is seven months old,…
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A New Way of Working
November 2, 2021
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Written by Charmaine Chitate for CARE/ USAID Takunda - Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)
As the world continues to grapple with a new way of working owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, community leaders in Buhera and Zaka districts are appreciative of Takunda’s engagement method. As a USAID-funded activity, one of…
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Finding The Young Voices
November 2, 2021
Written by Charmaine Chitate for CARE/ USAID Takunda - Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)
Every week, Desmond Jeke (20) meets with his peers for a friendly match at the nearest soccer grounds in Ward 3, Zaka district. The regular fixtures give Desmond and his peers time to unwind and set…
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‘Planting the Rain’: An innovative approach towards building sustainable futures
October 7, 2021
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Written by Charmaine Chitate for CARE/ USAID Takunda - Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)
In April 2021, USAID Takunda began engaging with communities through a visioning process guiding them on developing action plans that any organization can use. Wendumba village in Ward 11, Mutare rural, was a part of the…