Jennifer Sefa Boakye reporting in Okay Africa:
Osborne Macharia is a self-taught advertising and contemporary photographer whose striking images are instantly recognizable due to the mellow hues and dynamic lighting that imbue each of his subjects with an otherworldly glow. Born and raised in Nairobi, Macharia received a degree in architecture, but just a few years ago found that his true passion lay in photography. Since then, he’s managed to carve out a niche for himself in the field of commercial photography, while also carrying out personal projects that he says “help him to define and refine [his] work.”What do you think?More hereAfro-Juba Macharia’s latest photo project,, consists of a series of images “inspired and dedicated to the games that defined our childhood, before the era of video games.” The conceptual set sees him re-imagine four Kenyan schoolyard games, including Brikicho (hide and seek), Cha-Mama (girls role playing as mothers and wives; sometimes involving boys playing husbands), Duf Mpararo (skinny dipping in tadpole infested water) and Muwindo (hunting for quails and other smaller birds using a slingshot). We recently caught up with Macharia over email to hear more about his imaginative new series and his take on Nairobi’s emerging photography scene.
