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Item Ships From: England
Ikulme by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

John Kenny Ekerun Large Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Rendille mother and child by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait with Acrylic mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Like the Maasai, Rendille women and their children keep their hair very short. This mother, however, leaves a tuft of hair remaining on the front of her child which has been bleached...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

Hombre de Media Luna by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was almost 3am and we were still waiting for the band to start to play. I stood on the open air stage buffeted by the winds as the group and their roadies struggled to set up. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

La Romera by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
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21st Century and Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

Hombre De Media Luna by James Sparshatt. Smiling man smoking a Cuban cigar
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was almost 3am and we were still waiting for the band to start to play. I stood on the open air stage buffeted by the winds as the group and their roadies struggled to set up. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
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21st Century and Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba. In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile. The Buena Vista social club...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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Metal

Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

The San Man by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
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 w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Malasso by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 wrappe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Assaita by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Fire of the Himbaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

At the Edge of the Jade Sea by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Lake Turkana, or the ‘Jade Sea’ is a vast body of water in Kenya’s far north. It is surrounded by a barren landscape of red and black volcanic rocks, where rain falls for little more...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again. Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Woman by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Nambuele by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny - C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lady of the Arbore by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
The jewellery of the Arbore is among the most colourful in the whole of the Omo Valley: they are experts in recycling materials for beauty, particularly metal watch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Mursi traditions by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lopayok by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Gumatoo by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Kedenye by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Kolode by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Naiio by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Turkana girl in northern Kenya wears a goatskin known as an ‘egolas’. In traditional Turkana communities the inhabitants are excellent at making garments from animals, and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lesirte by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Loicherua by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Ikulme by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Emon by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba Siblings in 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 his subjects in their ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Child l by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Malasso by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 wrappe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again. Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Woman by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman from Northern 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 his subjects i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Mukuru by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child 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 natura...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

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C Print

Otjitando by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman 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 his subjects in their d...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Nakini by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

The Fairground by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lesirte Portraitby John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Naiio by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Turkana girl in northern Kenya wears a goatskin known as an ‘egolas’. In traditional Turkana communities the inhabitants are excellent at making garments from animals, and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

John Kenny Kolode Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Gumatoo by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Pitali by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Ikulme by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Loicherua by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lokope by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A girl of the Samburu 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Emon by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mountt, 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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Loile by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 England - Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

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