Photography '22

One Off is pleased to present

Photography '22

Opens Saturday 29 January 2022
noon to 4pm

Exhibition Run:
Saturday, 29 January through 20 February 2022

Gallery open: Tuesday through Sunday
from 10am - 4.30pm.

Please note that masks are mandatory around the gallery.

James Muriuki

James Muriuki is a Nairobi based art practitioner who has primarily used photography and lens-based media in his work. His practice constantly revolves around the transition of society through specific objects that are often the extension of personal and communal bearings. His works explore the confluence of inter-dependent happenings in an ever-changing social landscape. He uses forms such as architecture and construction as visual elements and metaphorical symbols. These are an illustration of human capacity, desire and aspirations.

He is also interested in experimenting with and investigating the potential of images; specifically photography and motion, video and sound. He uses these as mediums and processes for making art, ultimately as knowledge reservoirs and transmission channels. He has curated several exhibitions individually and collaboratively in Nairobi and abroad, related to the same subjects/ themes. In the past, he has held positions in the management of the arts and has taken a leading role in using photography, not only as a medium of complementing other mediums but also as a tool of communication and social transition.

James’ work has been exhibited and collected in many countries. It has been included in several publications. He has collaborated with artists, attended residencies and workshops in numerous countries as well as being a grants recipient. He has been commissioned to use photography in multiple capacities including the training of photographers, development of exhibitions and the curation of installations in commercial and office spaces.

He was involved in the production of the art magazine, Msanii, the artist book Layers, and contributed to the UNESCO publication, Documenting Living Heritage. Individually, he recently curated Frontiers of the present: Exploring new ideas in photography, Nairobi, Passing it on: Inventorying Living Heritage in Africa, Windhoek, among others. He has co-curated exhibitions, including In Memorium, Constructions, under the collective 3collect, of which he was a founding member. He is an alumni of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre of Curatorial leadership fellowship and training.

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Preview of Works

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru I – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru II – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru III – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru IV – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru V | AP
– Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru VI | AP – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru VII – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

James Muriuki – Untitled, Kitisuru VIII – Photographic print on paper – 45h x 30w cm - Kshs 28,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi

Margaret Njeri Ngigi is a photographer and filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. It is no surprise that Njeri Ngigi is fast making a name for herself internationally with representation already in the UAE, Italy and Switzerland by AKKA.

Njeri Ngigi’s creative practice has an intrinsically activist element, encouraging conversation on typically taboo topics through her striking, celebrated portraiture. She is particularly known for her powerful and nuanced representations of the pressures facing young women in Kenyan society.

Preview of Works

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Debbie | AP – Photographic print on paper – 66h x 102w cm - Kshs 140,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Zawadi I | AP – Photographic print on paper – 104h x 68.5w cm - Kshs 140,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Bride Avenue | AP – Photographic print on paper – 74h x 92w cm - Kshs 140,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Women and Labels | AP – Photographic print on paper – 68h x 93.5w cm - Kshs 140,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Wrapped Up In My Head II| AP – Photographic print on paper – 68h x 50w cm - Kshs 100,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Wrapped Up In My Head I | AP – Photographic print on paper – 68h x 50w cm - Kshs 100,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Murky Waters | AP – Photographic print on paper – 66h x 105w cm - Kshs 140,000

Margaret Njeri Ngigi – Introspection I | AP – Photographic print on paper – 66h x 93.5w cm - Kshs 140,000

Harvey Croze

Photography nurtured Harvey Croze. His father was a professional, and Croze junior grew up at home in the darkroom with the smell of hypo (fixer, sodium thiosulphate) in his nose and the enlarger’s light in his eye. Photography paid for his schooling, first at Cranbrook School and Art Academy in Michigan, USA, where dad worked. Then, for a BA in Biology and English Literature at Amherst College, followed by a D.Phil. in Zoology (Animal Behaviour) at Oxford. His thesis professor, Nobel Laureate Niko Tinbergen, stressed that a scientist must be able to communicate his/her results to non-scientists and that photographs are one of the best ways to do that. Croze’s first day job was Elephant Ecologist at the Serengeti Research Institute; his last, Assistant Executive Director of UNEP in charge of Environmental Assessment. He co-founded the Amboseli Elephant Research Project with Cynthia Moss and was for many years a trustee of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants. Photography was always there, from ID photos of elephants to satellite images of the changing global environment. He currently serves as webmaster and odd-job science advisor for the Friends of Karura Community Forest Association. In this turbulent world, he sees photos as momentary stays against confusion, to paraphrase the poet Robert Frost.

Preview of Works

Harvey Croze – Into Karura Forest – Photographic print on canvas | AP – 102h x 102w cm - Kshs 158,000

Harvey Croze – Turaco Creek – Photographic print on canvas | Ed 1/3 – 102h x 102w cm - Kshs 158,000

Harvey Croze – Many Hands Make Light Work – Photographic print on canvas | Ed 1/3 – 69h x 102w cm - Kshs 120,000

Harvey Croze – What We Leave Behind – Photographic print on canvas | Ed 1/3 – 61h x 76w cm - Kshs 100,000

Talitha Puri Negri

Born in Milan in 1982, Talitha Puri Negri has devoted the last 7 years of her artistic career both to photography and a humanitarian commitment in Nairobi, Kenya. She founded her own Educational Trust in 2014 and currently lives in Nairobi.
Her first exhibition in 2012 at Sotheby’s in Milan consisted of a selection of photos taken during the months she spent in Kenya; the proceeds were donated to the NGO Twins International that operates in Korogocho, Nairobi.
In 2013 she exhibited photos at Sotheby’s taken during her travel in India and in Bangladesh; the proceeds were devolved to the NGO Association for Sewa and its projects: Sewa Lucknow (India) and Banchte Shekha (Bangladesh), to support women.
In 2014 she exhibited once again at Sotheby’s, her photos were taken in Kurdistan, North Iraq. The proceeds were donated to the NGO Emergency, to support their work with the local community.
Her articles and photos have been published in: Vanity Fair, Grazia it., Elle and Elle it.

Preview of Works

Talitha Puri Negri - Anni (Years) 1-64 - Photographic print on paper on board - 15h x 15w cm (each) - 1 for Kshs 9,000 | 2 for Kshs 15,000 | 4 for Kshs 26,000 | 8 for Kshs 43,000 | 16 for Kshs 72,000 | 32 for Kshs 120,000 | 64 for Kshs 200,000

Hannah Schwartzman

A psychologist by training, Schwartzman has travelled the world, developing a great appreciation of humanity and culture. Enriched by her exposure to architecture, design and art she has acquired an eye for the aesthetic beauty in everyday life.
Much of Schwartzman’s work is inspired by Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscaping of Central Park in New York. And this she records from season to season, year after year collecting the iconic moments which capture the soul of that city as it will be remembered for decades to come. Taking the skills she has honed in that exercise she focuses here on the extraordinary complexity of the Phalaenopsis Orchid (Moth Orchid) for this latest series of her work. The use of scale unsettles the viewer and eliminates the prosaicness of that familiar image. She pushes this close to a point of abstraction as she applies acrylic brush strokes to enhance the image. This has the added advantage of making each work in the series totally original.

Preview of Works

Hannah Schwartzman – Blossom I | Ed 1/1 – Acrylic on photographic print on paper – 120h x 170w cm - Kshs 150,000

Hannah Schwartzman – Blossom II | Ed 1/1 – Acrylic on photographic print on paper – 120h x 170w cm - Kshs 150,000

Exhibition openings are usually on the last Saturday of every month, excluding December.
The gallery remains open on Sundays allowing anyone who missed the opening to catch the exhibition the next day.
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