I’ve always said that I can’t draw to save my life, and I really envy people who can draw; they don’t have to worry about sets and locations like the rest of us. I accepted an assignment from the Kwani Trust to illustrate some stories for one of their upcoming publications the other day. The original plan was to make some sort of photo collage thingie – but the stories turned out to be quite abstract; photography wouldn’t cut it (how do you illustrate a story about lovers who like playing chess and having abstract conversations in a bathtub?).

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Shooting a catalog sounded like it’d be boring, but Sandra (the model) and I spent an afternoon ooh’ing and aah’ing at a coming-soon new collection by Kepha Maina – it’s all very curvy and sleek, and should be out in a little while – thought I should share.

The STINGO team and I had a very eventful photo shoot (I’m really enjoying the STINGO shoots, by the way) about a month ago – we drove out to Magadi with colorful menswear from Kepha Maina (one of our team-mates) with a grand plan to shoot in the wild with our model – Alwy (who’s awesome). For a start, one of our cars broke down on the way there, and we were towed to the location (not the grand entrance we would have liked – ).
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Here’s a piece I was proud to be involved with, for Kuweni Serious – which involved persuading random strangers on the streets, at work and at home to stop for a minute and stare at the camera (and in the case of one waitress, asking her boss for permission to stop working for a minute).

Everyone was generally very nice about it. This is also the first time I got to fiddle around with the Canon 7D, which is all kinds of awesome!
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Despite appearances (on this blog, anyway) I have been working! I’m happy to introduce STINGO; a collaboration between old and new friends like Kangai Mwiti (makeup), Kepha Maina (fashion design) and Lucille Kahara (production); and Sunny Dolat (photographer/stylist/casting director/ball-of-energy).

Stingo is part fashion blog, part photo experiment, part workshop. We’ll make up the rules as we go. We’ll see how it goes…