Barbara Minishi is a Kenyan Filmmaker, Artist, fashion photographer
and Art director whose explorative themes are driven by cyclical
mythic journeys of self, Nature, Alchemy & Arcana and intuitive
embodied expression visual arts. As an art director she has worked on
films and a music video, and also for Kapringen (A Hijacking), a
Danish feature film from 2003. In Kenya, she is among the most highly
regarded professional fashion photographers. Minishi's photo series
has been featured in the book 9 Photographers from Kenya published in
association with the National Museums of Kenya.Barbara Minishi, from
Nairobi, Kenya, graduated in 2003 with a BA degree in communication.
Her career as a professional Photographer begun when she realised the
heart connection images elicited within her.Minishi says, "Photography
was how i begun my creative exploration and somehow one could say that
the camera became a tool for me to expose, deconstruct, and play with
such inscriptions of identity. It was my ‘voice’ and a way of
being that created ‘events’ in which i could engage with themes
such as stereotypes and ethnicity, land and belonging, emotive
expression, urban influence and beauty.Despite commercial
‘success’ i started to question my role as African female Visual
Communicator and how my vision, direction and body of work could
evolve from into a more critical explorative and engaging practice
that involved the audiences as also create spaces for involvement and
engagement with the audience.
and Art director whose explorative themes are driven by cyclical
mythic journeys of self, Nature, Alchemy & Arcana and intuitive
embodied expression visual arts. As an art director she has worked on
films and a music video, and also for Kapringen (A Hijacking), a
Danish feature film from 2003. In Kenya, she is among the most highly
regarded professional fashion photographers. Minishi's photo series
has been featured in the book 9 Photographers from Kenya published in
association with the National Museums of Kenya.Barbara Minishi, from
Nairobi, Kenya, graduated in 2003 with a BA degree in communication.
Her career as a professional Photographer begun when she realised the
heart connection images elicited within her.Minishi says, "Photography
was how i begun my creative exploration and somehow one could say that
the camera became a tool for me to expose, deconstruct, and play with
such inscriptions of identity. It was my ‘voice’ and a way of
being that created ‘events’ in which i could engage with themes
such as stereotypes and ethnicity, land and belonging, emotive
expression, urban influence and beauty.Despite commercial
‘success’ i started to question my role as African female Visual
Communicator and how my vision, direction and body of work could
evolve from into a more critical explorative and engaging practice
that involved the audiences as also create spaces for involvement and
engagement with the audience.
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