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Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai
Jan Hoek / My Maasai

Jan Hoek

My Maasai

€25,00
24 × 33 cm, 116 p, ills colour & bw, paperback
ISBN 9789490800680
design: Jan Hoek & Lien Van Leemput for 6m56s
language: English
edition of 1000
November 2017

The Maasai tribe is one of the most photographed tribes across Africa, but pictures of them that cross the world are almost always from Western photographers who show a cliché like vision of the traditional jumping Maasai. ‘My Maasai’ is a photo publication in which photographers from Eastern Africa show their vision on the Maasai. It shows pictures of a rapper Maasai, a pilot Maasai, a lesbian Maasai, Maasai architecture, a female Maasai God and much more. This books fights the stereotype image of the jumping Maasai and shows at the same time why African photographers are so much better in photographing the topics in their own region.

‘My Maasai’ is an initiative of Jan Hoek, in collaboration with Kenyan based photographers; Sarah Waiswa (Uganda), Joel Lukhovi (Kenya), Mohammed Althoum (Sudan) as well as students of the De-Capture Limited School of Photography.

Selected for the Athens Photobook Festival.

Jan Hoek (°1984) is artist and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image.