I’M A STAR – Preview
“I’m a star” is my final encounter with the chokora, the street people of Nairobi, or maybe my first landing, after years, on a territory where forms of expression may be reciprocally exchanged. With the typical slowness of the view camera and my reconfirmed reliance on the alchemy of film, I envisaged a sort of play of reality in which the crafty actors were the street people themselves. The chokora present the environment in which they live and present themselves to the other world, our world, revealing not only a vigorous manifestation of identity and style, but more surprisingly even, their intimate and unconscious provocatory balance in a suburban scenario in which improvisation and survival become a form of art, one of scathing and unsuspected beauty.
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You have really captured the humanity and dignity of persons that are economically less fortunate. The world is such an unjust place.
Liked your photos very much, even though they are a bit gloomy)
Inspiring! Beautiful – like the light being more intense because of the darkness that surrounds.