Our Approach

Using Documentary Photography as a tool for social research, our work engages themes of visual storytelling in community. We explore how individuals, organisations and communities navigate, transform and reimagine their environments. These projects blend photography, community-based inquiry, interviews, recordings and reflective writing aimed at challenging dominant narratives and in return, celebrate local knowledge systems.

Projects

Fashion, Identity & Community Power

Through immersive fieldwork, exploring the intersections of fashion, identity, agency, sustainability and cultural pride. Using portraits, behind-the-scenes moments and environmental context, this work documents how grassroots fashion is used a site for protest, resilience, beauty and belonging.

Care, Dignity & Community in Aging

The project explores how elder persons in Kibera are shaping their community while navigating aging, memory and care. In a part of the city often associated with youth and energy, the project focuses on the elderly to document moments of joy, struggle, caregiving and collective memory. It examine community-based elder care models in resource-scarce urban settings, the visibility of older persons in media and intergenerational gaps in narratives about aging. It challenges reductive portrayals and advocate for dignified aging.

Markets as Microcosms of Sustainability, Culture & Exchange

In collaboration with Parijat Chakrabarti (Erb Institute, University of Michigan), the project investigated Nairobi’s local markets as vital social and economic ecosystems. Through photography and fieldwork, We explore how tradition and modernity converge in market life where commerce, technology, social relationships and urban rhythms meet. Beyond trade, markets are living environments in which resilience, creativity and community persist every day.

Motherhood, Girlhood & Second Chances in Kibera

The project documents the lives of teenage mothers supported by Soraya, a community-based organization in Kibera. Through visual and narrative portraits, it explores the intersections of motherhood, education, stigma and hope. It focus on stories of strength, vulnerability, and transformation portraying young mothers as leaders in their own right.

Statement

At the heart of everything we do, is a deep desire to honor our stories of everyday life in communities often go unseen, overlooked or misrepresented. The idea is to create a grounded space where these narratives can live, grow and be shared on thier own terms . Now building The Locals.

Nairobi, Kenya.