Biography

Ricci Shryock (Senegalese photographer)

Ricci Shryock has been a photographer and journalist for West Africa since 2008. In Dakar, Senegal, where she lives, she tackles a broad array of issues, including Ebola, the current migration crisis, the regional fashion and women's health. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Der Spiegel, Vogue Italia, Buzzfeed and many other titles. The Open Society foundation awarded her an honourable mention for some of her photographs dealing with the Ebola epidemic in West Africa submitted to the competition "Ebola seen through the photographer's lens".
She is active on the Everyday Africa platform, and many of her images were included in the group's first book published in 2017. 

She received subsidies from the Pulitzer Center for her reports on crisis and from the International Women's Media Foundation. Ricci taught photojournalism at Dakar University, the top public university in Senegal, and has given several journalism courses across the continent. She is a mentor for projects conducted on the everyday lives of the indigenous people. Ricci Shryock is an American citizen and speaks French fluently.

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