Documentary & editorial photography
Light that
finds the story
Based in Nairobi · Available worldwide
The Last Light
A portrait series on Maasai elders in Amboseli, shot over three seasons on medium-format film. Quiet, unguarded, and deeply alive.
Concrete & Clay
Nairobi's informal settlements as you've never seen them — intimate, architectural, defiant. Commissioned by The Africa Center.
Salt & Skin
Lamu Island's Swahili coast at dawn. A meditation on water, light, and the bodies that move through both. Personal work.
The Duka Series
Everyday commerce in Nairobi's kiosks and corner shops. Colour, clutter, and the choreography of survival.
Fugitive
Dancers in motion, shot at 1/8000th on a single roll of Ilford HP5. The body as a blur, the frame as a trace.
I'm a documentary and editorial photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. My work lives at the intersection of portraiture, place, and the quiet politics of everyday life. I shoot what I can't stop looking at — faces that hold a century, markets at 5am, coastlines at low tide, the architecture of a city remaking itself.
I trained at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and spent five years as a staff photographer for The Continent before going independent in 2022. My work has been published in National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, and Monocle, and exhibited at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute and Photo London.
I shoot primarily on a Hasselblad 500C/M with Kodak Portra 400 and Tri-X 400, and a Leica M10-R for digital assignments. I believe in natural light, unscripted moments, and the kind of patience that lets a subject forget the camera is there.
Process
Every assignment begins with a conversation — not a brief. I spend time understanding the place, the people, the light. I don't direct; I wait. The best frames are the ones that arrive when you stop looking for them.
Medium
Film is my first language. I develop and scan in my own darkroom in Kilimani — a converted garage with a Jobo processor and a lot of patience. Digital when the deadline demands it, but the heart lives in silver gelatin.
Currently
Working on a long-form project tracing the Great Rift Valley from Djibouti to Mozambique — a visual diary of the communities living along the fault line. First chapter (Ethiopia, Kenya) due for exhibition in early 2026.
Available for editorial assignments, commissioned portraiture, and documentary projects worldwide.