Wednesday, 19 September 2012

DUCUMENTING NAIROBI BUILDINGS,



Scholars of  Kenya  historical  buildings  had  something  to be happy  of  following  the documentation by  the award winning  photographer  Mimi  Cherono  Ngo,k
The documentation which  is   in  the form of exhibition  is  currently  on  the show  at  the German  Culture  Center  in  Nairobi  Kenya.
The  exhibition  which  was officially   opened  last  weekend  vividly  proved   that  photography  is  the easy  way  history   can  be stored  and  be  preserved  in  the modern  Society  without  any  problematic and  that  is  what  German  Culture  Center  in  Nairobi  is  doing.
The upcoming  photographer told  media  in  Nairobi   that the exhibition  titled  Sasa  Nairobi is  the basis  of  her field  of  photography.
Ngo,k  agraduate  of  the University  of  Cape  Town  in  South  Africa where  she hold  BA in  fine  Art  majoring    in   photography.
  She  won   the 3third photo Africa  contest  in  Terita  Spain  in  2011  Courtesy  of    IFa, She  was in residence  at  Savvy    in Berlin  German,  Recently  she  was  selected  as 2013   fellow  in  Bahia  Brazil and  the ongoing  exhibition  is her  first  in  Nairobi
 The  photographer   plans  to   study  majority  of  of  the historical    buildings   in  Nairobi with  the major  objective   of  preserving  history  which  is  threaten  by  the modernity
The  exhibition  featrung   photos  and  newsapapers  cutting  had  becomes  among  the major  atraction  in  the city  , because  majority  of photography  is   commonly   contacted  by  photographers   from  Europeans  Countries and  the West.
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