Jean-Vincent Simonet – Kitengela

Jean-Vincent Simonet – KitengelaPhotographer Jean Vincent Simonet (b. 1991, Bourgoin Jallieu, France) introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in the early 1980s by German artist Nani Croze, Kitengela is a five acre village crafted from recycled glass, embodying Crozes vision of a creative utopia where art and nature intertwine. Through his photographs, Simonet captures the

feels that it knows: your clothes say that you are no longer here but that you were once here

using images and a fragmentary style to conjure an invisible world of objects and places

Fuelled by a curiosity for these parallel ‘eternal’ cities

mostly gazing off-camera

Varda impacted cinema from her first feature film through her final works

288mm x 268mm

fully clothed

featuring 38 contemporary photographers and 6 writers from Brasil

the publication of his first photographs

Mexico 2020

this project explores the African diaspora in the city’s 18th arrondissement

consisting of photos of empty apartments