Word: shootback
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...From that bold idea has come a decade of bold work, some of the best of which will be on exhibit in Paris until May 30 in a show entitled "Shootback," the title Wong gave to her training project. This is not the Kenya of big skies and herds of animals. It is real life, up close as seen by residents of one of Africa's most violent and dire corners. The teenagers - many as young as 13 - had little formal schooling and few future prospects. Most spent their days at the Mathare Youth Sports Association, an activity center which...
...intimate style of Shootback's young photographers has endured as they've grown older. During months of Kenya's post-election violence this year, their photographs conveyed an immediacy frequently lost in the news coverage. One of Mwelu's photographs shows flames leaping from the shacks during the fighting, while a pregnant woman races by in blue sandals. And James Njuguna - another of Shootback's original trainees - photographed a Mathare resident challenging a phalanx of riot police, with his camera facing the truncheons dead-on. As powerful as the images are, Shootback's most lasting impact has perhaps been...
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