# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-waiswa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:55:56.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-waiswa"
name: "Sarah Waiswa"
slug: "sarah-waiswa"
description: "Sarah Waiswa is a documentary and portrait photographer born in Uganda and based in Nairobi, Kenya. She won the 2016 Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award for a series that explored albino persecution in sub-Saharan Africa. She was also recognized by the 2015 Uganda Press Photo Awards."
tagline: "Ugandan photographer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.135349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sarahwaiswa.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waiswa"
    title: "Sarah Waiswa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50346875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump