Candid-style still photography by Marcus Olang' (@marcusolang).
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It’s World Photography Day. I’ve just discovered this. Which means I have somehow been caught unprepared by a day celebrating a thing I’ve spent 14 years doing. Excellent work from me.
ALT Nairobi, Kenya. Photographed by Marcus Olang', 2018.
ALT Nairobi, Kenya. Photographed by Marcus Olang', 2019.
And I’m thinking about how even in the business of photography - among the quotations and invoices and deliverables and the small financial crises caused by camera equipment - the practice itself remains intensely personal and relentlessly life-affirming.
Portraits can happen at any time. For example, they can happen in the brief window before the screening of a movie written and directed by a brilliant human, such as this.
September 2024. Wanjeri Gakuru is premiering her film, “Transaction”, at Unseen Nairobi.
ALT Wanjeri Gakuru; essayist, film-maker, journalist. As photographed by Marcus Olang'. Nairobi, Kenya, September 2024.
ALT Wanjeri Gakuru; essayist, film-maker, journalist. As photographed by Marcus Olang'. Nairobi, Kenya, September 2024.
ALT Wanjeri Gakuru; essayist, film-maker, journalist. As photographed by Marcus Olang'. Nairobi, Kenya, September 2024.
It tells a story that often remains unseen. I'd share the synopsis, but then I'd rob you of the joy of googling it and tangentially learning more about Wanjeri. And surely, I'm not as cruel as to rob you of that.