UN – Kibera

Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya 2018

During The Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, many voices raised their concerns and advocated for immediate action, we are at the verge of a point of no return, if that thing still is.

Documenting is sometimes not easy, and when things tend to spiral out of control and you need to keep your cool, a question arises: what is documenting, really? How do we reshape the way we do it in order to be as partially objective as possible, invisible, trying not to interfere? The short answer is: you can’t. The long answer is: maybe or maybe you were never there at all.

Maybe you can float completely disconnected from the world when shooting both at a UN conference and next in Kibera. Decisions sharpened in such orbits fall like stones into places where hands are already drowning in the work of not dying. Two worlds never meeting, and yet one is bleeding in present tense.

The decay of human consciousness can’t be printed in documents, let alone understood by those with reasonable room to maneuver, those with the power to reshape the down-to-earth reality people face daily just to survive. The weight of big decisions upon the greater good, the bigger picture, is only felt by those who know nothing about them. And cleaning up the shrapnel in the minds with leverage to make a change, when it passes through too many hands clinging to every sliver of power, it might be a paradox, and that might be the most human thing after all.