I spent a few days recording singers Silas Miami, Winnie Chris, Diana Nduba and Patricia Kihoro in the NEST's salle-de-bain studio for an upcoming NEST music project. Looking forward to more recording sessions this week!
Here are the three videos I directed/edited for Chico Leco Presents. I had such fun making them (together with the awesome Sunny Dolat and NEST team), and these shorts provided a welcome break from the tighter shoot + edit I did recently for Homecoming.
1. Dinka Translation, for Katungulu Mwendwa:
2, Urban Hunter for Nick Ondu:
and 3: Glamourai for Sheila Amolo.
I will be creating 3 short videos for Chico Leco Presents - a program of the NEST in which eight collections by Kenyan fashion designers will be showcased by conceptual videos directed by three video artists (Dan Muchina, Mbithi Masya and myself).
Here are links to poster versions of the “All Oppression is Connected” mural in printer-friendly PDF format. Download them free to print wherever, as long as you don’t – you know – sell them, or use them to vandalize places.
DOWNLOADS:
A3/11″x16″: (Black, PDF – 8MB)
A3/11″x16″: (White, PDF – 11MB).
18″x24″: (Black, PDF – 17MB)
18″x24″: (White, PDF – 37MB)
22″x32″: (Black, PDF – 25MB)
22″x32″: (White, PDF – 57MB)
Need different sizes? Let me know.
All Oppression is Connected (Mural) by Jim Chuchu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
I completed my first ever mural at the NEST last Saturday. Titled “All Oppression is Connected”, the mural was inspired by the poetry of Staceyann Chin (who visited the NEST a month ago, and who is the wisest person I’ve ever met).
Painting is hard work, friends. Many thanks to everyone at the NEST for letting me desecrate a wall!
Last (and weirdest) day on the Homecoming set, mainly because of the epic set, the costumes and atmospheric lights by Dixon. The music made it even cooler (Miezekatze by Ogris Debris). Photos by Dan Muchina. See the complete album on Facebook.
Day 03 on the Homecoming set. Wonderful set design by Naima Mungai (with postcards stolen from my house). Photos by Dan Muchina and myself. See th complete album on Facebook.
Day 02 on the Homecoming set, somewhere deep in Karura Forest (which is awesome). Photos by Dan Muchina and self. See the complete album on Facebook.
First day on the set of the Homecoming shoot. I had severe case of butterflies-in-stomach all morning, which wore off after a couple of hours. Photos by Dan Muchina. See the whole album on Facebook.
Images from a wardrobe-fitting session with the cast of Homecoming, and Sunny Dolat – who’s in charge of wardrobe for the film (and is doing a wonderful job!).
Spent the day location scouting for Homecoming with DOP Dru Mungai. I’m a sucker for forests – and I need to stop it.
“Mwangalio Tofauti – Nine Photographers from Kenya”, published by the Goethe-Institut Nairobi in conjunction with the National Museums of Kenya is now available. The book features “Concrete Crystals” – a series of photographs I created in 2010. It’s very cool to see the work in print!
Electric color series for Chico Leco featuring Namnyak - one of my favorite models.
Jo Kisila for Chico Leco.
Elsie Njeri, shot out in the desert for Chico Leco promos.
Chico Leco promos featuring Nick Mwaniki and Jo Kisila.
Jo Kisila for a Chico Leco promo shoot.
I get asked how the album cover for Just A Band's debut album - Scratch To Reveal - was made. Here's an overview:
