Video Interview: How Pascal Maitre illuminated Africa’s electricity crisis

In the developed world, electricity is taken for granted. It powers our homes, lights our streets at night and keeps our businesses running. Life without electricity is inconceivable to us, but that's not the case for more than a fifth of the world's population who – more than 150 years after the invention of electric light – still live in a state of energy poverty.

This is an under-reported crisis situation that continues to cause great difficulties for huge numbers of people. It moved French photojournalist Pascal Maitre, who has photographed across Africa for over 30 years, to bring it to the public's attention in a photographic project, Africa Without Electricity.

Over a two-year period, the Canon Ambassador documented the day-to-day lives of African people and the challenges of living without electrical power, with the project winning first prize in the 2018 London Business School Photography Awards.

Read the full interview on the Canon Europe Pro website: https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/stories/pascal-maitre-africa-without-electricity/