African Design/2017/12 min/Reel № 17.001
ByOsborne Macharia
Osborne Macharia breathes life into his fantastical, fictional imagery
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Osborne Macharia takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Kenya in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Osborne's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
The self-taught Kenyan photographer takes the Design Indaba audience on a mesmerising journey of fiction, fantasy and narrative.
About the speaker
Osborne Macharia
Nairobi/Kenya
Osborne Macharia is a self-taught commercial and advertising photographer born and bred in Nairobi, Kenya and with a bachelors in architecture.
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