Photo: Loise W. MachariaNairobi, Kenya · urban space
The Bus Is the Canvas
Nairobi, Kenya. A matatu’s painted body carries an artist’s reputation, an owner’s investment, and a passenger’s hope that an ordinary journey might feel like their own.
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Photo: Loise W. Macharia
Photo: Vincenzo Paterno'Tripoli, Lebanon · craft economies
Six Months to Make a Bar of Soap
Tripoli, Lebanon. In the city’s soap workshops, time is an ingredient, a financial burden, and part of what one generation hopes to leave the next.
Photo: SadadsBonwire, Ghana
The Thread That Holds: Kente, Identity, and the Fight for Survival in Bonwire
In Bonwire, Ghana, kente weaving carries proverbs and identity through changing markets, family workshops, and debates about the craft’s future.