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I have been asked by VICE Magazine to submit some images from Kenya’s 2007 elections and from my archive digging I have sent them these 3 screenshots for them to choose those images which suit. I thought I would share the screenshots with you firstly for interests sake and second because the images look so good all together like this! The images are taken in Nairobi’s streets and CBD, in Nairobi’s Kibera slum and also in Kenya’s tea-growing town outside Nairobi called Limuru, and in the western city of Kisumu.
All Images are Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
All Images are Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
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Days of malfunctioning vote counting machines, days of ballot paper issues (some valid papers even found on a dump site) and days of constant speculation. Days of waiting. Five days later and many hours and many hands-for-manual-counts later across the country the final tally came at the end of a nail-biting day during which Uhuru Kenyatta’s share of the vote jumped either side of the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a run-off, before settling on 50.03 percent. Kenyatta himself faces crimes of humanity charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his alleged role in orchestrating the violence following the disputed December 2007 election.
Kenyatta made his acceptance speech at the Catholic University of East Africa around 5pm with Raila Odinga set to give his appeal to the supreme court regarding alleged evidence on a messed election.
To view on my official website the images I filed to AFP from the results day please click here. Below are images that I took on my iPhone throughout the results day.
** All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved. **
6am: Dawn breaks in a very quiet Kibera where people were walking to work with no reaction to an apparent win by someone not chosen by them.
8am: An empty Nairobi city centre as people are indoors awaiting final results
9am: Empty roads and a lone billboard of Raila Odinga who’s votes brought him in allegedly second in the presidential race.
9.30am: An empty Uhuru Highway throught Nairobi’s CBD
9.45am: In Nairobi’s CBD newspapers already printing and selling Kenyatta’s victory in the presidential race.
11am: Jubilee coalition (TNA) supporters celebrating in Kawangware Kenyatta’s win in the Kikuyu area of Kawangware with a goat for ‘nyama choma‘.
12pm: ‘Amani’ or ‘Peace’ slogans on rock walls in Kibera slum
1pm: Eunice and others in Kibera still waiting for final results alongside peace slogans.
2pm: Everyone including ‘Paka’ the cat in a Darajani Kibera community room, still waiting for the final announcement of results.
4pm: Final results announced with Kenyatta the winner, Jubilee supporters celebrate at the Catholic Church University of East Africa.
5pm: Kenya’s president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta making his acceptance speech at the Catholic University of East Africa.
6pm: Bodyguards and security personnel take a rest after undoubtedly some long hours.
The day finally came. 4th March 2013. Our election day. According to the new constitution it was supposed to be in August 2012 but was postponed. Kenyans have been waiting for this day, to decide one president and one government not a coalition decided from a crisis. I was hired by Agence France-Presse (AFP) to cover the elections from inside Nairobi’s Kibera slum which was the scene of much of Kenya’s 2007/8 election violence being a stronghold for Raila Odinga then the opposition party now one of the 2013 Presidential candidates. You can view a selection of my images from the 2007/8 elections and post-election violence here on my blog.
The election day images I filed to AFP are on my official website please click here to view. Herewith below is a selection of images from Kenya’s election day 4th March 2013.
** All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.**
7am: Dawn voter queue for Toi Market polling station near Kibera Slum
8am: View from residential balcony with a tied up chicken of voter queue at Old Kibera Primary School polling station
8.10am: Voters and Officials with seated onlooking Observers at Old Kibera polling station
8.20am: 5yr old Mwangaa with queues behind on voting day in Nairobi’s Kibera slum
8.20am: 5yr old Mwangaa with the ‘B’ queue for voters at Kibra Social Grounds, Nairobi
9am: Prime Minister and 2013 Presidential candidate Raila Odinga after he cast his ballot at Old Kibera Primary School
9.15am: Prime Minister and 2013 Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s wife Ida Odinga waits for him in the car while he casts his vote at Old Kibera Primary School.
10am: Balcony chicken overlooking Old Kibera Primary School voter queue
11am: View over Nairobi’s Kibera slum with election posters
12am: Singer-guitarist 20yr old “Mandela” sings to entertain voters in the queue
1pm: “Kaptain” Mohamed Ali – voter ID security check volunteer
1pm: “Kaptain” Mohamed Ali checks voter ID cards
2pm: Voter queues and IEBC queuing clerk at Olympic Primary School in Kibera
3pm: Hawa Hassan, a Nubian born in Kibera in 1953, gets ready to leave her house with her Kenyan ID needed in order to vote. For almost 100 years Nubians have been denied Kenyan citizenship since the British brought them from southern Sudan to work as soldiers now they have all been granted status and are voting in Kenya’s 2013 elections.
3.20pm: Hassan Ali, a 30yr old Nubian living in Kibera, heads to the voting queues. For almost 100 yrs Nubians have been denied Kenyan citizenship after being brought from southern Sudan to work as soldier by the British. They now have full status and are voting in Kenya’s 2013 elections.
4pm: Aisha Ali, a Nubian born in Kibera in 1956, about to cast her vote. Nubians were denied Kenyan citizenship for almost 100 yrs since they were brought from southern Sudan by the British as soldiers. Now they have status and can vote.
4.15pm: Aisha Ali, a Nubian born in 1956 in Kibera, gets her finger marked after voting. Nubians were denied citizenship for almost 100 yrs in Kenya after they were brought to be soldiers from southern Sudan by the British. Now they have been granted status and are voting.
4.30pm: 5yr old Zamzam and her sisters go for a walk alongside voter queues on election voting day.
5pm: Voter at Old Kibera Primary School polling station
6.30pm: The last voter queue at Kibra Social Grounds on election day
7pm: Last votes going in around 8pm at Kibra Social Grounds
8.30pm: Tired officials formally close the ballot boxes at Kibra Social Grounds
9pm: Vote counting starts counting at Kibra Social Grounds
9.30pm: Ballot papers are opened by lamplight and shown to a panel of officials, the paper piled on the correct resulting candidates. Kibra Social Grounds
After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 the city became a space within which culture and new ideas could be heard and because of that began to thrive. It is now an incredible place filled with art, culture, design, music, ideas, architecture, from all over the world. One of the things that stuck me literally immediately upon arriving is the graffiti and the street art. To those conservative among us it is apparently a sore site but knowing and understanding what the city and its people have come through and that expression through graffiti art on the Berlin Wall itself became popular for artists from all over the world and a place where tourists would go and admire the artwork is fundamental to understanding what one sees in the city today.
In the 1980s, the wall was reconstructed and made 14 feet tall. The West Berlin side of the wall had artwork completely covering the wall, while the East Berlin side was kept blank as people were not permitted to get close enough to the eastside of the wall to paint anything. To read more on Berlin Wall graffiti art click here
Here are a selection of my own photographs from my series “Berlin Walls” taken of graffiti art around Berlin city including some of the art from the east side of the Berlin Wall, now considered an actual gallery, the East Side Gallery.
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Graffiti from around Berlin City:
And graffiti from the Berlin Wall itself:
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My last day in Berlin I went 20 mins out of the city to Potsdam and to see the town and its famous Sanssouci Palaces. The palace grounds are home to 6 breathtaking palaces each unique in colour, design and detail. In winter when I visited everywhere looked just like a scene out of Narnia with blanket snow, frozen lakes and ponds, crystals of ice shimmering from the golden evening sunlight with pink, light blue and orange skies. I have to say it was one of the most beautiful days of my life.
Here is some info from Wikipedia:
Sanssouci is the name of the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. The palace was built between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick’s need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. The name emphasises its reason for being: “Sans souci” is a French phrase which means “without concerns” or “carefree”. The palace was a place for relaxation rather than a seat of power and the peace one feels inside the grounds reflects exactly this.
After World War II, the palace became a tourist attraction in East Germany. It was fully maintained with due respect to its historical importance, and was open to the public. Sanssouci and its extensive gardens became a World Heritage Site in 1990 under the protection of UNESCO in 1995, the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin-Brandenburg was established to care for Sanssouci and the other former imperial palaces in and around Berlin. These palaces are now visited by more than two million people a year from all over the world.
All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
Recently I returned from a trip to the city of Berlin. If any of you have been to Berlin you will know just how easily one becomes smitten with the place! For me it was a new experience visiting in the winter, my last few days the city was covered in a blanket of beautiful snow which is something a young Kenyan photographer has never really seen.
I photographed everywhere I went, the city is captivating with it’s extremes. Cold War history throws itself at you from every corner: World War buildings, the line through the city where once the Berlin Wall stood, sections of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Museum, old bomb bunkers. The city’s past is everywhere. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 areas of complete dereliction and wasteland have provided gifts to the city in the form of new spaces. New culture has devoured the opportunity to become established in the form of art, music and political personalities, modern buildings, graffiti art, design studios, music bands, film festivals, flea markets, clubs and restaurants, sandwich bars, you-name-it. People have been flocking since the Berlin Wall came down from all over the world to have a taste of this legendary city. I’m a changed person for my own experience. What an incredible place.
Herewith are a selection of images taken as the experience of a Kenyan photographer during the 10 days I was lucky enough to spend in this magical city.
All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
Up at 5.15am and on the way to EKA Hotel Naiorbi on Mombasa Road to beat the traffic. And boy did the early start pay off not only in me getting there in 15 mins but wow the light at dawn was spectacular.
Here are a selection of shots I’ve been commissioned to take for EKA Hotels brochures and promotion material:
All Images Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin/EKA Hotels. All Rights Reserved.
All Images Strictly Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin/EKA Hotels. All Rights Reserved.
Skilled professional represented by Metaphor Images with 7 years experience in documentary, editorial and commercial photography.
Assignments have involved conflict documentary for news-wire agencies, humanitarian and NGO event and project coverage, public health awareness and product promotion and hotel-lodge interiors for brochure publications.
Recognized for unique access to local subjects and contacts being Kenyan, easy to work with, international ethics and photojournalistic standards.
Publications include local and international newspapers, physical and online magazines, and public exhibitions.
CLIENTS: World Bank, New York Times, the Financial Times, BBC, CNN, AFP, Reuters, the United Nations UNEP and IFAD, Unicef, McClatchy Newspapers New York, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), Africa Geographic, Brand Magazine South Africa, Vestergaard Frandsen, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and many others.
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