Cyrus Kawalya

Cyrus Kawalya is a renowned visual development artist and strategist with a deep passion for film and photography for social change. For the last 10 years, he has been working professionally as a freelance photographer and filmmaker with a number of high profile development agencies including the World Bank, US Mission Kampala, British Council, and British High Commission in Uganda, UNFPA, GIZ, War Child UK, M.T.V Base and African Woman Magazine among others. Cyrus is the founder of Vision-I a multimedia organization that uses the tools of film, photography and design for social advocacy and he has been serving as the President of the Young African Leader’s Initiative (YALI) Uganda Chapter. During this time he has successfully led and designed a number of programs which have included the U-LEAD (Leadership Empowered to Advocate for development) held in 5 regions of Uganda at various Universities and a country wide campaign for peace towards Uganda’s election dubbed I Pledge Peace 2016 which involved the creative arts as tool to deliver a message of peaceful electoral participation to Ugandans.