Jacques Nkinzingabo is a DJ, music producer, and self-taught photographer born and based in Kigali, Rwanda.  He co-founded the Kwanda Art Foundation with the aim to build the photography community in Rwanda by establishing, educating, and improving knowledge about the medium. He is committed to building the art community both in Rwanda and in an international context. He established the Kigali Center for Photography, both a gallery and a training space to enable exchange, reflection, meeting, listening and the practice and development of new work.  His work focuses on cultural diversity, migration, memories and identity issues. Nkinzingabo has been exhibited worldwide.  He is currently showing his long-term Project “The Country in Progress” with WordPress Foundation at the Afrika Museum Colonial in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands.
Nkinzingabo co-founded Learning for Change. Today, he continues to teach photography classes in schools and communities across Rwanda. He is a leader in Kigali’s thriving underground music scene and a founding member of Team Kumba. He sees Team Kumba’s music as part of the unifying sound of a new generation, aware of its past but looking to the future with fearless confidence.
His website : www.jacquesnkinzingabo.com 

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