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Social Documentary Photographer

Visual Communicator

I use photography & video to document life.
Its questions. Its answers. Its in-betweens

MY JOURNEY OF IMAGES

About

When I was 12 years old, an aunt visited our home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She had just bought a new camera and as she showed it to us, I marveled at all the things she said it could do…

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Portfolio Highlights

FROM MY BLOG

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Felistas is the third born in a family of six. She was raised by a single mother in Machakos’ Mgini slums. Now she runs her own hair salon. | fungaifoto

From hair to there & even further…

THE WALLS OF her hair salon are a bright, glossy red. The towels that she throws over the shoul…

A woman prepares her shop for the start of business.

The hustle begins at dawn

FROM AUGUST 2016 to June 2018, my family and I lived in Machakos, a town of about 150,000 people abo…

Time to flatten and place it in a pan... | fungaifoto

Hands that make chapati

ONE OF THE staples in Kenya is chapati, an unleavened flatbread that goes down well with stew, …

WHAT I’M WORKING ON

Lifetime Projects

Artistic Journeys

This is a 25-year project which I started in 2004. It is an endeavor to document different Zimbabwean artists over this period and present their life stories as a book and as an exhibition in 2029. I am hoping to interest other photographers to help make this a more complete project.
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Google Guides 50k

When I lived in Machakos, Kenya from 2016-2018, I noticed that a lot of places were not on Google Maps and were thus hard to find. I actively joined Google Guides. The goal is to make 20,000 contributions by 2025. So far I’m at just over 3,000.
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Complete Circle

I have been using the Internet since 1996 when I started college. The HTML tutorial that first taught me web design was free. So have been many other resources I have used online. Complete Circle is my project to submit 1,000 photos to different free stock photo websites during my lifetime. To say thank you. To complete the circle.
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