Italian photographer Ambra Vernuccio has created an amazing photographic body of work called Nairobi – Face to Face. The photographs were taken in Kibera and Umoja, neighbourhoods of Nairobi.
Her work takes a look at the ‘profound cultural and identity changes that occur in our contemporary world. She set out to‘investigate the roots of social structural issues that countries like Kenya are now facing and how this is influenced by its economic system’.
“I wanted to show all those intimate moments that are part of the everyday life and which reveal the bond that exists between a person and their life in the slums. Places which are at the same time somber, moving, joyful and interesting”.
Vernuccio has captured an amazing depth of rawness and truth in these images. I don’t seem to see the slums she refers to in her rationale. Instead I see people in their everyday surroundings getting by.
Life, domesticity and culture is what I see!
SOURCE: AMBRA VERNUCCIO, FLICKR & AFRICAN DIGITAL ART
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