Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Burkina Faso
Kenya
• 1993
Biography
Brian Otieno is a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was born in Kibera in 1993, the city where he grew up and which he has been documenting since 2013.
His KiberaStories project is about capturing stories from the Kibera community. A vast slum, Kibera has between 500,000 and 1,000,000 inhabitants. Brian Otieno photographs from the perspective of one of his insiders and raises socio-economic, cultural, political and environmental topics.
Brian Otieno works regularly for Agence France-Presse and has contributed visual stories to media outlets including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, BBC, Der Spiegel, and Roads & Kingdoms. He exhibited in Paris (October 2018), Kampala (October 2018), Lisbon (January 2019) and New York (March 2019). He was among the 12 visual storytellers selected for the World Press Photo East Africa Masterclass, in 2016.
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