On my first trip to Kenya for the Enemies Project, I went to the Mathare slum of Kenya to meet people who had been affected by the tragic post-election riots that swept through Kenya in 2009. One of the people I met in Mathare was Benard Ochieng who had started a...
Slum artists – acrobats, rappers, b-boys… It’s been a long time since my last post… I’ve been busy – in Rwanda and the slums. I was going to write more, but I think these two videos say most of it. The day I first went to...
One of the biggest impressions I’ve had in Kenya is the staggering amount of poverty and the massive income inequality here. All the cities I have been to are filled with people who are clearly unemployed or underemployed. Official unemployment...
She reached out her hand. it was small, delicate like a flower. And when I held my hand she tentatively took one of my fingers. “How are you?” Her voice was small and full of innocence. While we held hands a sea surged around us “How are you, how are...
This post is from the first trip for my ENEMIES Project. Read more about it on my website On Thursday I went to Mathare again to photograph a man who was the head of one of the youth gangs that were directly involved with the post-election violence in...
