Capital Culture Gallery Ltd Portrait Photography
to
30
21
143
115
102
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
381
320
328
31
22
368
286
280
241
204
160
141
139
117
56
54
52
39
37
34
25
20
16
12
8
315
30
26
9
6
63
3
309
63
381
Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Korohan by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Wodaabe man in Niger in 2009.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fulani Bapteme Ceremony by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
One bright sunny morning in northern Benin my guide and I set off on a moped across remote dirt roads in the hope of finding wandering Fulani that might take us to visit their villag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fulani Bapteme Ceremony by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
One bright sunny morning in northern Benin my guide and I set off on a moped across remote dirt roads in the hope of finding wandering Fulani that might take us to visit their villag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Tuareg Warrior by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg warrior from Mali.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in thei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Oromo Lady of Bati by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Bati is famous for the massive, bustling, weekly market that takes place on a hillside under a sea of umbrellas. Animals are still the measure of wealth for rural peopl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Behind the Great Mosque in Djenné by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C TypePrint
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fulani boy with his huge turban wrap was wandering through the backstreets of the great mosque in Djenne, an amazing structure which is the largest mud building on earth. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lemoroko by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Lemoroko, a Rendille moran (warrior), in the southern reaches of the Rendille homeland, on the boundary of the neighbouring Samburu District. He had a striking, chiselled appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
John Kenny Fula Shepherd Boy Small Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula shepherd as he was dragging three uncooperative goats towards a dusty livestock market in a remote part of Niger. As a Fula nomad this young boy would spend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lines that Lead to Perfection byJohn Kenny. C Print with Acrylic face mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ydaco is from the Betammaribe culture in Benin. He lives in a small village in the Atakora mountains. His cheek bones provide the perfect surface for the beautifully intricate scarif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Learnesi by John Kenny Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Rendille are found across arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya and live in a harmonious arrangement with their neighbours to the south, the Samburu. It is often difficult t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Amuria by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
The Fairground by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Nakini by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana girl
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lopayok by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kedenye by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elder with a tale to tell
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ayoni and child by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ayoni and her child – a smiling Turkana mother.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Gumatoo by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny met this Gabbra woman on the road to Kolal in Northern Kenya in 2019.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Amuria by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
The Fairground by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Nakini by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana girl
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lopayok by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kedenye by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elder with a tale to tell
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ayoni and child by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ayoni and her child – a smiling Turkana mother.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Gumatoo by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny met this Gabbra woman on the road to Kolal in Northern Kenya in 2019.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kolode by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lesirte by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Eture by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pitali by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Sometimes a more practical hair arrangement is needed for warriors and braids are rolled into a net that is tied to keep the hair firm. Once the hair is long, a warrior will only sha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Loicherua by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This warrior, like many of the Samburu, cares intensely about his appearance. There are two giveaway signs beyond the amount of jewellery he wears: a small pink pocket mirror, next t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ikulme by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Emon by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Emon in a small Turkana village called ‘Sarima’ in the North of Kenya. It’s a wild place that seems to sit in a wind tunnel that takes its power from the enormous water mass of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Loile by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The large circular earplugs worn by this stunning Rendille warrior are made of plastic and sometimes bone. In past times, and very occasionally today, you might see the same plugs ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ekerun by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder in Northern Kenya
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Inchoy by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Siblings by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire.
The C-t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
The San Man by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
A picture of joy. KhoiSan bushman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Assaita by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Himba elder was at a huge funeral gathering in the western Kaokoland between the largest town of the area, Opuwo, and Otjitando. The area was flat, and very dry, with a strong wind constantly whipping up fine, dry dust and flinging it across the landscape.
The funeral was quite different in feel. People were engaged in deep, animated conversations, they smiled and laughed a lot in more of a festival atmosphere than one of sadness. Long parted friends came together to celebrate the life of the man who had passed – a man of huge popularity and social status. The funeral was to last a week and the crowd was swelling each day. There were huge animal carcasses being cooked on fires tended carefully by younger Himba men.
I watched from a distance, concerned at the need for privacy at such a gathering, but a number of groups waved for me to come over. The elder maintained a natural authority within his small circle, and I noticed that others spoke to him with deference. In the past this man had hunted and killed desert lions. He then pointed to a large gouge on the man’s thigh – the results of one of these encounters.
The lower necklace on this man are made of the soft ears of lambs. The small metal spear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child l by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry river beds. Arid conditions and past hunting have left few animals and the barren terrain create few obvious landmarks, but the Himba are able to navigate easily.
Himba villages have a circular boundary around the kraal (village) staked out by tall, tightly packed branches and a single route in and out. The outer wall surrounds a number of huts, each inhabited by one of the man’s wives and her children. Sometimes there are 6, 7 or more wives in the Himba kraal, and a lot of children!
When they are young, Himba children of both sexes dress and look remarkably similar. Often the only way to differentiate is by the number of thick hair strands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
John Kenny Malasso Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I came across the intense stare of this Pokot lady at a Friday market on a mountain summit in northern Kenya; it was the same market where I photographed a Samburu goat herder wrapped in blankets. The Pokot and Samburu are engaged in a constant battle over grazing rights, the two groups tend not to mix even at the market. This lady and the women with her were watched carefully by armed Pokot warriors as they walked amongst the market’s wooden stalls.
The journey to the market involves walking many kilometres across the valley floor and then a 1000m ascent to the mountain pass. When she left the market she carried no purchases with her an example of the exertions and huge distances that people in the north endure in order to trade and buy their basic necessities.
John Kenny...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lakuru by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rendille warrior from Northern Kenya
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His subjects are lit with natural light and wear their day ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Learnesi by John Kenny. Portrait with Acrylic Face-Mounted - C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Rendille are found across arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya and live in a harmonious arrangement with their neighbours to the south, the Samburu. It is often difficult t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Wodaabe Maiden by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Wodaabe maiden from Niger.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
La Dama Del Callejón by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print, 2001
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Dama del Callejón by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Print - Float Frame
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
James Sparshatt La Dama Del Callejón Large Print on Brushed Aluminium, 2001
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
La Dama Del Callejón by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" Photo on brushed aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Babalao by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Photograph
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Babalao or priest of the Santeria religion
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Dama De La Plaza by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" photo on Brushed Aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A lady of pure joy… dancing in the Plaza de la Revolucion on May 1st.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
La Dama De La Plaza by James Sparshatt. Portrait of Cuban woman smoking a cigar
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A lady of pure joy… dancing in the Plaza de la Revolucion on May 1st.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
James Sparshatt Ritmo del Autobus Photography, Framed Palladium Platinum Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was Christmas day and we were heading to Santa Maria beach in a hired Cuban school bus about 40 minutes from Centro Havana. The girls of Rumba Morena beg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum, Glass
El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" photograph on Brushed Aluminiu
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Viñales valley in western Cuba is a place of stunning beauty where perhaps the finest tobacco leaves in the world are grown. The tobacco farmers live hard but proud lives.
The S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
