The good people at AfriGadget thought they’d share my DIY cardboard lights on their site (thanks, guys!).
It’s actually a very interesting blog, with lots of innovative DIY ideas by our fellow Africans. We’re not only about drought and AIDS, it seems.
Continue ReadingNew music promo for Just A Band – the coolest clients ever. 
Closeup shots in the promo above were lit using the cardboard-box lights I mentioned earlier.
I took way too long to get the energy to sit down and finish this one. It’s the second (and last) video from the shoot last year – which I’ll never mention again.
Continue ReadingUsing lessons learnt from my first video shoots last year:
1. the sun is REALLY powerful,
2. but very unpredictable,
I set out to build my own personal sun – controllable, consistent, white light – using ordinary household equipment. DIY till I die and all that. More
Continue ReadingI mentioned earlier that we were using a cheapskate greenscreen consisting of bits of bright green paper stuck onto a cardboard box.
Will it work?
Based in Nairobi, Jim Chuchu began taking photographs by accident in 2007. He has since had the opportunity to create stylized advertising photography, portraiture and experimental video for clients such as Virgin Atlantic, Zain, and Coca-Cola and for artists like Just A Band and Sauti Sol.
