Guillaume Bonn

Guillaume Bonn is a journalist who began began his career as a photographer at the age of 20, documenting the conflict in Mogadishu, Somalia, shortly after the collapse of the Barre government. In May 1993, he returned to Somalia to work alongside his childhood friend, Dan Eldon, who was covering the Restore Hope operation for Reuters. Eldon was killed in Mogadishu on July 12, 1993, while reporting on what would later become known as the "Bloody Monday" raid, conducted by the U.S. military.

Bonn, alongside journalist Marc Lacey, has reported on the Darfur conflict in Sudan, allegations of child sexual abuse by United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Bonn's work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Le Monde, the Guardian the Observer and other newspapers and magazines. From 2002 to 2017, Bonn was a contributor to Vanity Fair for 15 years during Graydon Carter's tenure as editor-in-chief.

Bonn has received two grants from the Pulitzer Center for two photography projects on Kenya.His grant work, "Kenya: The Landscape of Turkana County" featured in Newsweek in 2014 in collaboration with Jessica Hatcher. Bonn has won numerous prizes for his photography. He has also been nominated three times for the Prix Pictet (Pictet Prize) in 2012, 2014, and 2015. He was also a finalist for the Lucie Photo Book Prize in 2024.[19]

Bonn has also authored several books, including Mosquito Coast: Travels from Maputo to Mogadishu. His most recent book, Paradise Inc, featuring an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson, was first published in 2024. Bonn co-directed, with Jean-Claude Luyat, a Canal+ documentary about his friend Peter Beard, entitled Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa & Beyond. Bonn would later recall his friendship with Beard in The Gentleman's Journal.

Bonn is also fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.