Our responsibility extends beyond creating compelling images. We are first and foremost people working with other people. The trust we build, the conversations we have, and the relationships we nurture are as important as the photographs themselves. These human connections help build foundations upon which meaningful visual stories are created.
For us, an exhibition is another stage of our participetory research process, where knowledge returns to the public, communities see themselves represented within the work, and new conversations begin.
we do not see exhibitions simply as places to display photographs. We see them as spaces for learning, dialogue, and collective reflection. The whole point is for the work to form a conversations, a conversations form understanding, and understanding should create the possibility for meaningful social change.
Coming Soon:We Are Speaking. Are You Listening?
Seen and Unseen. Our upcoming exhibition by The Locals. The goal is to challenge audiences to reconsider whose voices are heard, whose experiences are acknowledged, and whose stories continue to exist in the margins.
“We Are Speaking. Are You Listening?”, the exhibition asks a simple yet urgent question: What happens when communities have always been speaking, but few have taken the time to listen?
Because being seen is only but the beginning.The deeper question is whether we are truly listening.
Presented byThe Locals X Return to Kibra
Mediums
Visual Stories, Documentary Photography
Video/film
Dialogue
Coming Soon A space to see differently, listen deeply, and rethink whose stories shape our collective understanding of community.
Every Day Life was our first collective photography exhibition a milestone that brought together photographers, storytellers, journalists, friends and members of the public to reflect on the beauty, complexity, and humanity found in ordinary life. The exhibition challenged the idea that only extraordinary events deserve attention. Instead, it celebrated the everyday moments, people, and places that shape our communities and define our shared experiences.
Featuring the work of Anwar Sadat Swaka, Kelvin Juma, Jeremiah Onyango, and Ramadhan Karali , the exhibition presented diverse visual narratives that explored identity, place, memory, resilience, and community.
As our first exhibition, Every Day Life laid the foundation for future exhibitions, research projects, and Visual approches.
Supported by
DGI Max
Nairobi Design
Theme
Every Day Life – Finding meaning in ordinary moments through documentary photography and visual storytelling.
Sebuleni ExhibitionFriends and Family
The Sebuleni Exhibition: Friends and Family invited audiences to reflect on one of the most fundamental aspects of our lives the relationships that shape who we are. Through documentary photography, the exhibition explored friendship, kinship, belonging, and the everyday moments that define community beyond traditional ideas of family.
One idea from the exhibition that continues to resonate within our work is that:
“The work only starts at the photo.”
Organisers
Baraza Media Lab – Host and organizer of the exhibition through the Baraza Photo Sessions&nb sp;series.
Nairobi Photo Fest – The exhibition was presented as part of the 1st Edition of Nairobi Photo Fest.
Exhibiting Photographers
Victoria Komu (@photo._.femme)
Edwin Ndeke (@edwinoblak)
Kesh Nthamba (@kenyan_francophone)
Jeremiah Onyango (@sir.jeree)
Mercy Mumo (@mumoh_photography)
Event Details
Exhibition Title: Sebuleni
Series: Baraza Photo Sessions
Venue: Baraza Media Lab
Date (First Edition): Saturday, 10 February
Time: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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The Locals, is an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together documentary photography, narrative research, and community-led storytelling to document lived experiences and expand public understanding of underrepresented communities. “The place I called home and countless other overlooked communities, had always had storytellers. Not in the most formal sense but knowledge has always had an archor.” By documenting lived reality and the use of visual storytelling, we create work that speaks to both academic audiences and the wider public while while still remaining rooted in the actual community.