About

Shadi Bushra is a Sudanese-American documentary photographer and journalist. He recently relocated from Egypt, where he worked for the Reuters news agency as a contributing photographer and a staff correspondent responsible for energy and agricultural commodities and political and economic news out of Egypt, the largest Arab country and the world's top wheat importer. He now lives in Minnesota where he is working on longer-term projects on criminal justice and mental health, and the war on terror's impact on the large and vibrant Somali-American community in Minnesota.

Contact

Send messages to shadi@shadibushra.com, or use the form below.

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Twitter: @shadibushra

Instagram: @shadibushra

This grocery store shelf in #minnesota was a sight for sore eyes. An annoying thing about living in London was the lack of microwaveable buttered popcorn. Obviously when I got back to the U.S. I had to make up for lost time.
This grocery store shelf in #minnesota was a sight for sore eyes. An annoying thing about living in London was the lack of microwaveable buttered popcorn. Obviously when I got back to the U.S. I had to make up for lost time.
#lakesuperior #duluth #minnesota
#lakesuperior #duluth #minnesota
A man on the banks of Lake Superior #duluth #minnesota
A man on the banks of Lake Superior #duluth #minnesota
My brother @afrosamiri and his friend/ my surrogate lil bradda on the porch #minnesota
My brother @afrosamiri and his friend/ my surrogate lil bradda on the porch #minnesota
Someone buy me this Harley. Please and thank you. #motorcycle #minnesota
Someone buy me this Harley. Please and thank you. #motorcycle #minnesota
Myself jamming out in the porch this past summer (photo by @astroahmed) #minnesota
Myself jamming out in the porch this past summer (photo by @astroahmed) #minnesota
This grocery store shelf in #minnesota was a sight for sore eyes. An annoying thing about living in London was the lack of microwaveable buttered popcorn. Obviously when I got back to the U.S. I had to make up for lost time. #lakesuperior #duluth #minnesota A man on the banks of Lake Superior #duluth #minnesota My brother @afrosamiri and his friend/ my surrogate lil bradda on the porch #minnesota Someone buy me this Harley. Please and thank you. #motorcycle #minnesota Myself jamming out in the porch this past summer (photo by @astroahmed) #minnesota

Bio

Shadi Bushra was born in Khartoum and left Sudan in the early 1990s, moving to Cairo and Washington, D.C. before settling in Minnesota. Shadi studied human biology and international relations at Stanford University in California, and was pulled to journalism while researching youth democratization movements in Sudan in 2011-2012 for his honors thesis through Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. 

At Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism he studied investigative journalism and digital media, completing a hybrid investigative-photojournalism master's thesis in South Sudan on the massive cost overruns and lack of follow-through when building the country's first paved highway, which cost American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars more than it should have and has since fallen into disrepair.

After a summer internship reporting, shooting photos and producing multimedia at the Miami Herald, Shadi joined the Reuters news agency in London before moving to Cairo as a staff correspondent. He was responsible for covering Egypt's energy and agriculture sectors, as well as general and political news in Egypt and Sudan, where he traveled to cover elections. Shadi also contributed photos to the Reuters wire over the two years in London and Cairo, with several being chosen as "Pictures of the Day".

Building on his personal and professional experience, Shadi is most interested in stories related to political transitions,  extremism and conflict; mental health and criminal justice; immigration and refugee communities; and infrastructure, agriculture and energy.