Before the digital age and the influx of outside media, there was a generation of local photographers who documented Kibera from the inside.

Armed with analog film cameras, they captured the early foundations of our community be it through weddings, family studio portraits, daily struggles, and neighborhood transitions that never made it into the mainstream archives. Today, many of these pioneer photographers are retired, elderly, or have been displaced by demolitions and urban redevelopment, their negatives and life stories tucked away in fading albums.

Realizing how temporary family albums are, especially growing up in a place where theirs constant movement is also realizing how much is lost.

As a storyteller rooted in this community, I am searching for these elders of the craft. This series is an effort to track them down, archive their surviving work, and listen to their memories. By bringing their stories to light, we aren't just honoring the photographers who came before us; we are reclaiming the earliest chapters of our visual history.