Life in Kibera slum
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PhotographerFabrizio Crippa, Italy
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CategoryAfrica
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Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya, is a slum founded in 1912.
It is difficult to describe in words the true reality and feelings one gets when visiting this slum.
Thousands of small shacks with tin roofs and mud walls, without toilets, water and electricity. No government support. This is life in Kibera.
In spite of this, the children play and smile at you, the adults are busy trying to sell recycled items in their makeshift shops.
And that is how you realise that they do not give up but every day show the strength and desire to live a better life and give their children a future.
My passion for tribal people has allowed me to visit several states in India, Asia and Africa to take photo-reportage such as those on the last tattooed women, both Indian and Burmese and Ethiopian tribes. Reportage, however, is not the only photographic genre that excites me but I am generally attracted to everything that strikes me from a photographic point of view.
I teach photography and I am the author of three illustrated books.
My photos have been exhibited in various exhibitions receiving prizes and awards.
Awards Local prizes and awards in Italy and abroad.
Curatorial selection by Hossein Farmani at "Prix de la Photographie - State of the world Paris 2023"
Shortlist at "Prix de la Photographie - State of the world Paris 2021"
Honorable mention at "Vienna International Photo Award 2021"
Finalist at SIPA Award 2020.
Bronze medal at "Prix de la photographie Paris 2020", in the Portraiture category.
Finalist at Urban Photo Awards 2020
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