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Friday, December 6, 2013

THROUGH THE LENS OF NAIROBI’S PHOTOGRAPHERS- GEORGINA GOODWIN


#PHOTOGRAPHY MONTH WITH @UP Magazine/ #WeLoveNairobi
Georgina Goodwin (Photojournalism)
 Georgina has no qualms about picking the camera and plunging in the thick of things; from skirmishes in the city to documentaries in the remotest African heartlands. “I have always loved taking photographs and started feeling the need to consistently take images when I sailed the Indian Ocean in 2003-2004,” says the freelancer of her beginnings. Passion soon grew to accolades when she bagged two awards at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in Kenya (2005).
From then on she took photography seriously enough to immortalize critical moments of recent Kenyan history: the 2007/8 Post Election Violence; the Occupy Parliament demonstrations; and most recently, the Westgate Attack in 2013. She’s currently immersed in a project with a UK Charity, Emerging Leaders, on rape at Mugumoini slum village at the fringes of Kibera in Southlands, Langata. The project aims to impart life skills training on disadvantaged communities withno aid and little government support. “I never stop striving every time I press the shutter to find ways to make it different; finding the angles, the light, and the emotional element that will make it even just a little different,” she emphasizes. “I’m always striving to take award-winning images.”

For more info, visit www.georginagoodwin.com

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