Do you consider yourself a photographer? Do you want to improve your skills and gain more experience – or have you always wanted to learn how to create good images with a digital camera? Then you should participate in the ongoing photography exhibition organized by Goethe-Institut at Umubano Hotel in Kacyiru.
Do you consider yourself a photographer? Do you want to improve your skills and gain more experience – or have you always wanted to learn how to create good images with a digital camera? Then you should participate in the ongoing photography exhibition organized by Goethe-Institut at Umubano Hotel in Kacyiru.
The interactive photography exhibition, which runs from November 4-24, will explore the concept of photography as a tool of investigation, discovery and representation – an act of wandering undertaken by the photographer as traveler and explorer.
"Traversing Soweto streets, backyards in Nairobi, dusty Jordanian alleys, Peregrinate invite viewers to consider the intimate politics of home and belonging, as well as the possibilities inherent in dislocation, or a lack of anchoring, and the routes one takes to find a way forward,” reads part of a Goethe-Institut statement.
Peregrinate features the work of three famous photographers: South Africans Thabiso Sekgala and Musa Nxumalo as well as Mimi Cherono Ng’ok from Kenya.
During the event, viewers get to experience the stories of these stunning images and the photographers behind them.
Running the theme, ‘Field notes on time travel and space’, the exhibition examines spatial politics, the economics of time and travel, and the kinds of access granted to travellers. The travels of three different wanderers are juxtaposed as temporal sculptures to chronicle the personal experience of journeying within the home, neighbourhood and country, as well as the act of departing for distant places.
The exhibition will also explore how visa restrictions on the continent, the cost of airfare, among others, are filtered through historical, political and personal ways of seeing. The pictures taken by the three visiting photographers have documented ordinary places, events, and people.
Jointly curated by the featured photographers, this exhibition is the final stage for the three participants as part of the Goethe-Institut portfolio workshop, the Photographer’s Master Class, according to the organisers.
The Master Class is regarded as an important platform for emerging photographers from around the continent.
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