These are a collection of photographs taken over several years in Kenya. Most are commissions for charities and organisations such as AMREF and ACE-Africa. These are images often far from the tourist’s gaze and working for such organisations has given me unique access into the realities of ordinary and everyday African life.
Towards the end of this section there is a picture of a corpse. Whilst perhaps difficult to look at, it is a very real part of ordinary life in rural Kenya and so has been included.
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- Young Student, Bungoma District, Western Kenya.
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Young Student, Bungoma District, Western Kenya.
For ACE-Africa
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- AIDS Orphan, Western Kenya.
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AIDS Orphan, Western Kenya.
This photograph is framed to express the loneliness of this orphan girl with her mother’s empty chair dominating the background. For ACE-Africa
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- AIDS Orphans, Siaya, Western Kenya.
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AIDS Orphans, Siaya, Western Kenya.
For ACE-Africa
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- Flying Doctor, Nairobi.
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Flying Doctor, Nairobi.
For AMREF
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- Laboratory, Nairobi.
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Laboratory, Nairobi.
For AMREF
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- Camel Train, Northern Kenya.
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Camel Train, Northern Kenya.
Camel Train, Northern Kenya.
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- Samburu Circumcision Boys, Northern Kenya.
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Samburu Circumcision Boys, Northern Kenya.
For a month after ritual circumcision these boys don drab clothes and fend for themselves living out in the bush away from their family community. It is tradition to give them gift as they pass by. At the completion of this Lmuget Loolbaa period a boy will become Moran or young warrior and transform his look with ochred hair, beads and a colourful tunic together with other finery and carry a spear to replace his bow and arrow.
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- Coffin Maker, Bungoma, Western Kenya.
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Coffin Maker, Bungoma, Western Kenya.
For ACE-Africa There’s no shortage of work for this man in HIV AIDS afflicted Western Kenya.
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- Maasai Clinic, Kenya
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Maasai Clinic, Kenya
For AMREF
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- Clinic, Western Kenya.
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Clinic, Western Kenya.
For ACE-Africa
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- Maasai elder with his cattle
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Maasai elder with cattle
Cattle are the centre piece of Maasai life.
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- Maasai elders discussion
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- Maasai health monitor checks for trachoma
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Maasai health monitor checks for trachoma
For AMREF
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- Early morning Maasai meeting
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- Washday, Siaya,
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Washday, Siaya, Kenya
For ACE-Africa
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- Shopkeepers, Western Kenya
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Shopkeepers, Western Kenya
For ACE-Africa
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- Soya Milling
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Soya Milling
For ACE-Africa
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- Student
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Student
For ACE-Africa
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- Samburu Woman, Northern Kenya
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Samburu Woman, Northern Kenya
Samburu Woman, Northern Kenya
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- Samburu Woman, Kenya
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- Patrick & Peter with Vincent’s body, Western Kenya
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Patrick & Peter & Vincent’s body, Western Kenya
Vincent’s body was lying on his bed awaiting the money to be raised to buy his coffin. For ACE-Africa.
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- Peter & Patrick Bereaved, Kenya
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Peter & Patrick Bereaved, Kenya
Peter and Patrick stand outside Vincent’s house at his funeral. For ACE-Africa.
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- Orphan Streetchild Project Nairobi Kenya
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Orphan Streetchild Project Nairobi Kenya
For HOPE-HIV
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- Nairobi Former Streetchild Carwash
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Nairobi Former Streetchild Carwash
These former destitute street children are now young adults. They have been helped to start a business washing vehicles in Nairobi. A success story born out of adversity. For HOPE-HIV