The Kenyan artist, Thandiwe Muriu, started out in commercial photography but quickly found herself questioning what it means to be a woman through images of strength and beauty.
Having struggled in making a way through a male-dominated industry, the artist began to explore portraiture through the use of everyday objects and cloth. In her latest book, Camo, Muriu uses Kenyan traditions – hairstyles… a collaboration with local tailors and makers to create clothes… local fabrics – to create vivid images that require much more than a fleeting look. The photographs are carefully curated assemblages with the final image composed in-camera. In Camo these photos are displayed alongside Kenyan proverbs and sayings.
To read more about the artist (and the book), and to see photographs of the works, head on over to this article on CNN. What a fantastic storyteller!
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