It was Friday aka Day 8 of a project where all joys and pains were been collectively borne. The previous day had only yielded a small set of images and Cindy and Sebastian weren’t having a repeat of that. We started with a trip back to the quarry. A man in a large, loose polo […]
Thursday started pretty late for us. We were switching van and driver and they took a while to arrive at Kericho’s Tea Hotel. Once loaded up though, we began driving around looking for the first shot of the day. An earlier plan to scope out a monkey sanctuary the night receptionist had told us about […]
Village life has revealed itself to be beautiful thing to document on our #UnexpectedKenya journey through Western Kenya. Has it always been ‘surprising’ or ‘unusual’ as per the project brief? Not really. But that hasn’t stopped Sebastian from clicking away. Last year’s Capture Kenya photographer Allan Gichigi (who tackled this very zone) said it best: […]
Tuesday started with Sebastian capturing a sunrise at Kakamega Forest’s view point. The previous day’s recce had taken us up a steep hill carpeted in rock chips with sparse trees and small knots of grass for grip. It was a scary ascent (and descent!) but the view was lovely. At 6:30 am, it was at […]
She said asthma is what prevented her from becoming a car mechanic and the profession is poorer for it. Stocky with closely-cropped natural hair, Stella is a mother of three and Kakamega town’s sole female motorcycle repairer. We picked her up early Monday morning and she was a delight to shoot given the hostile environment […]
I think the problem started when we listened too closely to Simon Nyongesa. Aged Mickey Mouse t-shirt, frayed trousers and dusty slippers, the man’s words and charm were in sharp contrast to his appearance. When he nimbly crossed one portion of the scarified rock face to for next, we simply had to follow. He relayed […]