Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Wealth Project 2009

The portraits below explore individual notions of wealth. I asked a simple question to each of my subjects:

“What enriches your life and what is important to you?”

Often the responses were similar, because for many Kenyan’s the most important things are land, family and livestock. People don’t necessarily deal with money, it’s more about swapping something you have for something your need.

Much of my childhood was spent in Africa and I have grown to love the continent and it’s people. I decided to investigate wealth in Kenya, this might seem strange to some people who have an image of poverty in Africa. I have experienced otherwise, and thus wanted to show this through photographic practice. I spent a month visiting different people around Kenya, taking their portraits and asking them my question.







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