ARCHIVE KENYA 119 – FISHERMAN AT LAMU
February 7, 2021 4 Comments
Fisherman, with the last of his catch for sale, on Lamu Island, Kenya; July 1978.
I wondered about using black and white here, but the colours of the man’s clothes really jump out of this image’s otherwise quite muted palette. Not that a muted palette is necessarily a bad thing – I’ve often thought that some of the more successful colour images are those with the least colour – but here I like the contrast between the shock and glow of those clothes and the rest of the shot.
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Technique: OM-1 with 28mm Zuiko lens; Agfa CT18 colour slide film, rated at 64 ISO.
THE ARCHIVE KENYA SERIES
I’m re-posting photographs that I took in Kenya over 30 years ago. You can find more context here . Click onto the “Archive Kenya” tag (below) to see more of these film images from Kenya.
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