Health
Documenting the relationships between people, care, services, institutions, and the wider conditions that shape health outcomes.
About
Narrative strategy and documentary storytelling grounded in attention, context, and care.
The Introduction
Kondwani Jere is a Narrative Strategist and Documentary Storyteller based in Malawi, working with people and organisations across Africa.
He helps organisations understand what is happening around them, identify the stories that matter, and communicate those stories with clarity, context, and care.
The work often begins with a programme, a place, a research question, or a communications challenge. Whatever the context, the starting point remains the same: listen carefully before deciding what the story should become.
The Practice
Documentary work begins with attention to people, place, and context.
Documentary storytelling is often associated with the visible act of making photographs or films. But the camera is only one part of the process, and rarely the first.
The work begins with listening to people, organisations, communities, and the systems shaping their experiences.
Listening creates the conditions for understanding. Understanding makes it possible to interpret what is happening: the relationships, tensions, patterns, and human realities that give a story meaning.
Only then does the work move toward communication.
This is where documentary storytelling, narrative strategy, and strategic communications intersect. Documentary work brings lived experience and evidence into view. Narrative strategy identifies what the story means, how it should be framed, and who needs to understand it.
Strategic communications connects that understanding to a wider purpose.
The camera is part of the process, not the beginning of it.
The result is not simply more content. It is communication grounded in context.
Areas of Work
Agriculture
Exploring livelihoods, knowledge, production, climate, markets, and the systems surrounding rural life.
Development
Examining the relationship between programmes, institutions, intended outcomes, and lived experience.
Research
Turning evidence, findings, and complex knowledge into communication that remains accurate while becoming accessible.
Conservation
Understanding the relationships between people, ecosystems, livelihoods, place, and environmental responsibility.
Public Interest
Developing stories around issues that shape public understanding, collective life, and decision-making.
Across every sector, the responsibility remains the same: listen carefully, preserve context, and communicate without losing the human reality at the centre of the work.
The Medium
Photography and filmmaking remain part of the work. So do interviews, written narratives, research documentation, knowledge products, editorial development, and communications strategy.
Some assignments require a single image that holds attention. Others need a documentary film, a series of interviews, a publication, a written essay, or a wider communications framework.
Many require several forms working together.
The medium is chosen after the purpose, audience, context, and responsibility of the work are understood.
01Photography
02Film
03Interviews
04Writing
05Knowledge products
06Communications strategy
The medium changes.
The responsibility remains the same.