EKA Hotel Nairobi
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.
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Little Girl in the Red Dress
Need I say more….
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All Images Copyright (c)Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
Photo of the Day :: Irene
Seven year old Irene playing in the dirt streets of her residential estate in Nairobi’s eastern suburbs, a place called Soweto.
The sun is going down and in a moment behind a cloud. I get the camera as low as possible and have her backlit. Out comes this gem…..
All Images Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin.
Club Centenary
Muthaiga Country Club was started in 1913 mainly by Kenya’s Settler Farmers. The Club is celebrating it’s Centenary Year during 2013 and I was there when they gathered documents, memorabilia and photographs for the Time Capsule – a safe that will not be unlocked now for the next 100 years. A photographer climbed a ladder and stood on the Muthaiga Club roof to take photograph of the club members below standing in the car park. The rest of the evening was speeches by the Club Secretary and by the Centenary Committee, and the closing of the safe once items were placed inside careful with plastic gloves to stop the oils from destroying the papers inside!
All Images Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. All Rights Reserved.
Carbon For Water :: Day 2
Morning:
Photographing school children using LifeStraw® Family in the classroom….
Afternoon:
Photographing the visit of the Princess of Africa, Yvonne Chaka Chaka to the Emusanda Health Clinic that Vestergaard Frandsen have coordinated to build. This trip to see about extending the maternity unit.
And:
Yvonne visits the aunt and remaining family members of Sharon, a 15 year girl with HIV who passed away September 2011.
All images (c)Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
Carbon for Water :: Day 1
The LifeStraw®‘s Carbon For Water™ program is the most ambitious previous public health campaign Vestergaard Frandsen has ever envisioned and the largest registered carbon offsets project that the world has seen. The impact of the distribution of over 900,000 LifeStraw® Family filters had a wonderfully huge impact on the lives of over 4 million Kenyans in Western Province during and after the program rolled out in April and May 2011.
Vestergaard Frandsen return this month to carry out their follow up one year later, to collect further data and re-educate the users in order to maintain 100% success rates.
Day 1
Here is a selection of my images taken from DAY 1 in the field. They show educators and ‘bodaboda’ (motorbike) drivers heading out to households, women at the Banju Health Centre in Vihiga, inside the house of Phanice (26) with her children Ester (6), Arnold (4) and Precious (9 months) showing their installed LifeStraw® Family. And children collecting water, now able to do so from their nearest water source because of the LifeStraw® Family filter instead of having to travel much further for cleaner water.
All images (c) Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
All images (c) Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
The World Of Women
The Alliance Francaise in Nairobi is a non-political institution that not only promotes the French language and helps to develop an appreciation and understanding of French and Francophone cultures but which also promotes artistic and cultural diversity. In this regard they are calling for amateur and professional photographers to submit work in an international photography competition on the theme of The World Of Women, to be judged by a professional jury composed by Alliance Francaise de Nairobi. The chosen photos/finalists will be exhibited at the AF Nairobi on the occasion of the Festival CulturElles 2010 which marks International Women’s Day 2012.
The concept of ‘The World Of Women’ from my perspective explores the worlds of possibilities or non-possibilities that women have to face in their lives, often on a daily basis. I’m taking a risk by exposing that I’m submitting to the competition as I may or may not make a placing which of course will be disappointing, but the point is these images and the concept will at least get some exposure through those of you who read this. Thank you.
Image 1 ‘FUTURES’
Two young girls dressed for church on Sunday in Nairobi’s Kibera slum are held protectively and strictly by their obviously religious and stern mother. The passing young women, modernly and scantily dressed, reminds of the many different lives that women lead either by choice or because they have had to.
Image 2 ‘DIFFERENT WORLDS’
A bikini model waits self-consciously next to a group of masai women during a swimwear photo shoot in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The image captures the incredibly different worlds and cultures from which these women come and from a larger perspective what they also represent ie. modern world of fashion, magazines, wealth, freedom of expression for women vs. ancient tribal culture, role of women in community, survival, very little independent/individual expression.
Image 3 ‘LEFT ALONE’
This is a portrait of Ida Makena, 23, outside her ‘home’ made from donated tent material, in Shalom City in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a displaced peoples’ camp set up after the country’s post-election violence. Her life is a series of ‘non-choices’ in one photograph, left alone by her husband, by the Kenya Government, by violence, she continues to tend to her daily chores of clothes washing and cooking despite her obvious hardship.
Image 4 ‘INNOCENCE’
Dressed in her best white dress next to ordinarily dressed boys, awkwardly playing with her shoe, the photograph captures the innocence of a girl before the influences and potential difficulties catch up and begin to take hold of her life in Nairobi’s Kibera slum.
All images and text copyright GEORGINA GOODWIN
Shelter Children Rehabilitation Centre – Ngong
I found out about this amazing orphanage from a friend of mine who is away from his children at present and is missing them terribly. To ‘give something back’ and for his own enjoyment to be with children he spends time there and on this occasion I joined him. What I found were incredibly organised, well mannered and smart children, and resources donated from many kind people from all round the world since the orphanage was set up around 12 yrs ago.
The centre has around 350 children and is run by Mary Wambui, the Director and Agnes, the General Manager. Most of those children are away at boarding school, so during my visit there were the younger ones only, around 40. Some of the children have been rescued from child marriages, some do have a parent somewhere but is somehow incapable of looking after them, the majority are orphans.
Many children I photograph in Kenya are unable and unwilling to answer any questions I direct at them, even to answer what is their name. The Kenyan education system does not teach children to think for themselves, they are only taught parot-fashion and to copy. At this orphanage I found each child well spoken, addressed me directly and politely, and their individuality very evident. I will be visiting this orphanage/rehabilitation centre to begin to tell their stories. Here are a few opening photographs:
KENYANS FOR PEACE
GEORGINA GOODWIN – Kenyan Photojournalist – KENYANS FOR PEACE https://www.facebook.com/ggkenya
Twitter: @ggkenya
Coming up to 2013 the pace of the race to our next elections is picking up. Postings, tweets, voting, campaigns and candidates. More frequent. More detailed. After personally witnessing and photographing the pain and atrocities of our last election I am making a public stand:
KENYANS FOR PEACE
To commit to my stand I will be posting relevant articles and information to my FB page Kenyans For Peace and tweeting the like alongwith my other bumf @ggkenya.
Here are some images – as a reminder, a warning, a record – in some cases taken under difficult circumstances during the post-election violence that occurred in Kenya during the last few days of December 2007 and the first three weeks of January 2008.
My work was used by Reuters and McClatchy Newspapers New York and was distributed by the photo agencies GranAngular and Africa24. Some images were short-listed for an award in 2008 for the Bayeux Calvados for War Correspondants.
All Images STRICTLY COPYRIGHT (c) Georgina Goodwin. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
GEORGINA GOODWIN Kenyan Photojournalist KENYANS FOR PEACE https://www.facebook.com/ggkenya
Twitter: @ggkenya
All Images Copyright (c) Georgina Goodwin. No Photo Stealing!
Europe Day Nairobi
I was asked on 6th May to photograph the annual event held by the EU Ambassador in Nairobi of Europe Day. It is at the residence of the ambassador Ludowick Briet and all dignatries and ambassadors from the EU were welcomed.
The idea of Europe Day is to build a Europe which respects freedom and the identity of all of the people who live on this continent. It was during the Milan Summit of EU leaders in 1985 it was decided that 9 May should be celebrated as “Europe Day”.
The rest of the world celebrates 9 May as an annual opportunity to celebrate the EU’s achievements but here in Kenya it was decided the 6th. It is a day to reflect on these aims: peace, freedom, prosperity and working together.
I will update the names of the people in the photos as soon as I get the info!
Ambassadors cars parked outside the residence of the EU Ambassador Ludowick Briet for the annual event of Europe Day in Nairobi
At his residence the EU Ambassador Ludowick Briet greets guests at the annual event of Europe Day in Nairobi
Speeches at the residence the EU Ambassador Ludowick Briet greets guests at the annual event of Europe Day in Nairobi
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Vestergaard Fransen’s Carbon For Water Campaign part2
More images from the Carbon For Water Campaign
- CEO of Vestergaard Frandsen, Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, accompanies Jane as she visits the place where she and her family draw water for their household.
CEO Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen gets 'miked up' by CNN tv crew before he enters a homestead in Kakamega to spot check the LifeStraw Family waterfilter distribution during the Carbon For Water Campaign
The warehouse in Kakamega Western Kenya housing the LifeStraw Family waterfilter awaiting distribution in the Carbon For Water Campaign
Bodaboda (motorbike) drivers hired to deliver the LifeStraw Family waterfilter during Vestergaards Carbon for Water Campaign
LifeStraw Family waterfilter being demonstrated and distributed by Vestergaard Frandsen during their Carbon For Water Campaign
LifeStraw Family waterfilter packaging after being demonstrated and distributed by Vestergaard Frandsen during their Carbon For Water Campaign
Video crew filming the distribution of LifeStraw Family during the Campaign
Example of how woodsmoke can fill the kitchen area and affect health, LifeStraw Family aims to reduce the need for burning and hence promote health
Two children awaiting their dinner in family kitchen filled with woodsmoke from burning. LifeStraw Family aims to reduce this and thereby promoting health
Video crew filming the distribution of LifeStraw Family to a farming family in Kakamega
Jafet, 9, drinks from the local water pump, the source from which his family draws their water
Carbon For Water Campaign
Swiss-based Vestergaard Frandsen--makers of mosquito nets and the LifeStraw–has figured out a solution to turning a profit while saving the world. I photographed the official launch today 26th April 2011 of the Carbon for Water campaign that will last 5 weeks during which 4,000 temporary employees will distribute the company’s LifeStraw water filters to 900,000 households in Western Province–nearly 90% of the entire population–providing 4 million people with clean, safe drinking water.
Kenyans boil their water to eliminate waterborne diseases using wood fires which, as we all know, creates a lot of carbon. The best part is that getting rid of the need to boil water means fewer emissions from Kenya, and Vestergaard Frandsen earns carbon credits for each LifeStraw donated which they can sell to companies in countries that have carbon caps and exchanges. Brilliant!!
I’m be coming in and out of the campaign to photograph during the 5 weeks and updating my blog with some of the best images throughout.
For live updates on Twitter follow: @vesfra and @carbonforwater
Website: www.carbonforwater.com
The crowd during the launch event of Vestergaard Frandsen's Carbon For Water campaign.
Entertainer and local musician Daddy Owen demonstrates how water is filtered by LifeStraw Family water filter on stage in front of the crowd during the launch of Vestergaard Frandsen's Carbon For Water campaign
Entertainer and local musician Daddy Owen drinks water filtered by LifeStraw Family water filter on stage in front of the crowd during the launch of Vestergaard Frandsen's Carbon For Water campaign
Entertainer and local musician Daddy Owen asks little Nicole who taught her to dance after she wins a lighthearted entertainment dance competition on stage during the launch of Vestergaard Frandsen's Carbon For Water campaign
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, CEO of Vestergaard Frandsen, prepares for an interview at one of the distribution sites during his company Vestergaard Frandsen's Carbon For Water campaign
Tribute to Michael Jackson
I was asked by French photo agency EYEDEA, an offset of Gamma/Rapho, to photograph some local Kenyans showing a tribute to Michael Jackson after his sudden death on June 25th 2009 from a reported cardiac arrest at the age of 50. The photos were to be used for a worldwide exhibition in Michael Jackson’s honour with input from photographers from all countries around the world. I chose 2 young men from the Maasai tribe, a quintessential symbol of Kenyan culture, and together we went into the Nairobi National Park where, with a park ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service for security, we disembarked our vehicle to get these shots as close to a herd of zebra as possible.
These are the 6 photographs that Eyedea chose for their final selection.
IFAD – International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD is the Agricultural Funding arm of the UN, a department within the United Nations, and an institution in its own right. I was happy to receive an assignment by the IFAD offices in Rome for 28th to 31st March to cover the visit of IFAD’s President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD’s projects in Kenya.
IFAD is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries. 75% of the world’s poorest people – 1.4 billion women, children and men – live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods. Working with rural poor people, governments, donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and many other partners, IFAD focuses on country-specific solutions, which can involve increasing rural poor peoples’ access to financial services, markets, technology, land and other natural resources.
On a personal level, I have been incredibly impressed with the dedication and achievement that IFAD work with. I have a degree in Physical and Human Geography, much of which focused on African under-development and desertified areas, and which is a strong background on which I choose to interpret much of what I photograph. This work was a perfect blend of what I’ve learned academically with my degree and what I’ve learned in the field now with photography. Incredibly interesting and good to know Africa has such support like this.
Wangu Womens Self-Help Group, Irangi Forest - Central Kenya
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD's projects in Kenya. Here His Excellency visits Kiumbu Maternity Clinic in Nyeri, Central Kenya.
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD's projects in Kenya. Here His Excellency visits a homestead in the area of Mururi near Nyeri Town, belonging to a banana farmer by the name of Liz Wangari Bundi who is the youngest of the Africa Harvest projects members, of which Dr. Rose Njeru is the Director and Mr. Erasmus Ndambiri is the Chairman. IFAD funds Africa Harvest in their intervention with farmers which has moved them from demonstrations to commercial enterprises. 29 March 2011
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD's projects in Kenya during which His Excellency met with Lodewijk Briet, the EU Ambassador, at the Windsor Hotel in Nairobi. 31 March 2011
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD's projects in Kenya. Here His Excellency is in Busara, Central Kenya, where he met and spoke with members of the Busara Dairy Goat Self-help Group. 28 March 2011
IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze visits the Minister of Agriculture Sally Koskei at Kilimo House in Nairobi. 30 March 2011
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to the central Provincial Commissioner's offices in Nyeri Town where he met young Stephen IFAD Monari who was named after the institution by his father from Nyamusi Division after his life was so changed for the better by what he learned through IFAD's help. 28 March 2011
Visit of IFAD's President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze to some of IFAD's projects in Kenya. Here His Excellency is at the central Provincial Commissioner's offices in Nyeri Town where he met young Stephen IFAD Monari and his father from Nyamusi Division, and officially planted trees. 28 March 2011
To view more of my photographs from IFAD’s President Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze visit to some of IFAD’s projects in Kenya, please visit the photos archive on the IFAD website home page. Set the left-hand filter to ‘no filtering’ and then click bottom right on ‘see all recent items’. My photographs start halfway down on page 2 and continue from there. Enjoy!
2010 – A Scape of Experience
This year of 2010 I have travelled to London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and around my own country of Kenya. I get commissioned jobs or I travel for myself but always I try to make the most of everywhere I go, thinking always of new ideas, projects and important things to photograph. Sometimes it takes a short time, other times it needs planning and a little or a lot longer, in which case I go back. But always there’s a story.
These are a very few of the countless photographs I’ve taken this last year, either for pleasure (personal work) or commissioned. I show these not particularly for their brilliance but to show the incredibly interesting variety of subjects, people and experiences that comes through the work that I do.
Masai Mara - Print for Black & White Galleries in UK
Brochure image disease control textile company Vestergaard Frandsen
Canon 5D MarkII - Delta Dunes, Tana River near Somali Border in Kenya. Taken at 11pm at night.
Marian & Guy - Family wedding
New York City
New York Times - image from 'One Moment in Time'
Tinderet Tea Estate - Commercial images for Williamson Tea
British MP Craig Whittaker during a visit by Conservative and Labour Members of British Parliament to Korogocho slum in Nairobi to see Cash Transfer projects initiated by Oxfam GB and Concern Worldwide in an effort to address the food security issues declared by the Kenyan Government in January 2009.
Film Premiere in Nairobi - Hazi la bidi
Voting in Referendum - polling station Kibera slums, Nairobi
Opening of the Comprehensive Care Centre at Emusanda, Lurambi District in Western Kenya, attended by Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Ida Odinga and Vestergaard Frandsen, followed by meeting Sarah Obama at the new NGO Grandmothers Against Malaria Initiative (GAMI) in K'Ogelo, W.Kenya
Ongoing project to capture daily life in Nairobi's Kibera slum.
Personal Project - unnamed as yet this focuses on the massive growth, development and change in Nairobi, and the effect on the lives of those living in the city. Here are builders of a new office block, Kushee Towers.
The Elephant Orphans
One hour only. From 11am until 12pm daily these baby elephants and their feeding time are open to viewing to the public, and only one hour to ensure they stay as unaffected as possible by human contact during their protection and rehabilitation by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya.
Baby elephants, and rhinos, from all over Kenya and other parts of Africa are brought to the centre rescued from poaching or from the live animal trade to the Middle East, the Far East and China. Each elephant has its own Keeper that stays with it 24 hours a day for comfort and protection, even sleeping together with the elephant. Those that are lucky enough to survive the trauma they have endured are nurtured, brought back to health and encouraged back into wild herds in Kenya’s largest national park Tsavo at around 3 years old.
The Conservation, Preservation and Protection that The Trust is committed to includes anti-poaching, safeguarding the environment, enhancing community awareness, addressing animal welfare issues, and providing veterinary help to animals in need. The rescue, hand-rearing and rehabilitation of elephant and rhino orphans is a fundamental and important part of The Trust’s projects and the education on the importance of conservation of wildlife and the environment to school children and visitors is vital to the future of Kenya.
Baby Elephant Orphans Playing
Teaching Conservation to School Children and Visitors
Baby Elephant Orphans dust-bathing with their Keepers
Baby Elephant Orphans being fed Special Formula Milk by their Keepers
Visitors learn about Conservation and the Orphaned Elephants
Visitors can touch the Orphaned Elephants under their Keepers' watch
School Children can learn about and touch each Baby Elephant during visits
Each Baby Elephant has their Keeper who is the only human allowed with them 24 hours
For more information email The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on rc-h@africaonline.co.ke
Here I Am Campaign – June 2010
I was sent from 6th-9th June by the International Civil Society Support organisation in Holland under the HERE I AM CAMPAIGN to Zambia and Malawi to get the stories and photographs of three people – ambassadors – affected by tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria . The campaign aims to sensitize and increase political support from current donor countries and gain the support of potential donor countries for the Global Fund by bringing human stories from the field closer and demonstrating the impacts of the Global Fund on the ground. The ambassadors I met were Michael Gwaba and Banza Chela from Lusaka in Zambia, and Joyce Kamwana from Lilongwe in Malawi. All three have been chosen for their role in their communities in helping others to find strength in dealing with the difficulties of compromised health and overcoming the stigma attached to living with HIV.
Michael and the grandmother of one of his community members who benefits from the Global Fund donations
Michael and ARVs (Anti RetroViral drugs)
Banza with his children
Banza in his office
Joyce in her community
Joyce
