In 2016, during our second poetry festival in Uganda, we requetsed each participant from the different African countries to submit their bio and photograph.
This is what often happens when you request poets to send their professional photographs. Please avoid this at all costs.
1. They are dressed in regalia that hides their face, in a dimly lit room.
2. A cropped photograph of them on an aeroplane.
3. A photograph of them sharing a stage with others, their back to the camera.
4. Their face hidden behind a microphone stand.
5. Arms spread outward facing the ceiling.
PLEASE ALSO NOTE:
AN IPHONE PHOTO IS NOT THE SAME AS A STUDIO PHOTO. GO TO THE STUDIO AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.
It is preferred to have a portfolio of photographs, and ensure that there is an updated professional photograph of not less than six months to a year old.
This photo below was taken in 2015; the year I began taking annual professional studio photographs.
Many people kept asking me to send them stories, respond to interviews, to send poetry for magazines and each had to be accompanied by a photograph and bio.
Some people though, have sometimes gone back to old photographs that they find of me on the internet.
I remember there was one particular photograph which a journalist from one of the leading papers in Uganda used every single time.
There are those exceptional cases.
Time for you to go to the studio.
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