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🌍 Breathless Realities: A Glimpse into Our Climate Crisis 🌍

In this haunting image, the profound impact of climate change takes center stage, unveiling the harsh truth we cannot afford to ignore. A woman, engulfed in a suffocating cloud of dust, sits with a mask shielding her from the hazardous particles that now permeate the air. Above her, a stark juxtaposition reveals a fallen tree, its barren branches reaching towards the heavens, while a feeble plant struggles to survive, connected to the woman's mask by a pipe—a fragile lifeline in a world teetering on the brink.

This captivating scene serves as a poignant metaphor, painting a vivid picture of the consequences of our unsustainable actions. The cloud of dust symbolizes the environmental degradation we have inflicted upon our planet, a bleak reminder of the alarming rise in air pollution and the loss of pristine ecosystems. The woman, wearing a mask for her own protection, represents the desperate measures we must take to shield ourselves from the very air we breathe.

At the heart of this image lies a profound message: climate change is not a distant threat but an urgent and tangible reality. It whispers of the disrupted balance of our ecosystems, the irreversible loss of biodiversity, and the growing challenges faced by communities around the world. It implores us to reflect upon the choices we make, both individually and collectively, and the legacy we leave for future generations.

Let this image ignite a fire within us—a call to action to combat climate change with unwavering determination. We must come together, transcending borders and differences, to implement sustainable solutions that restore our planet's fragile harmony. We must prioritize renewable energy, conservation efforts, and mindful consumption. We must demand policy changes and hold corporations accountable for their environmental impact.

But above all, we must never lose sight of the power we possess as individuals. Each small action we take, whether it's reducing our carbon footprint, supporting eco-friendly initiatives, or spreading awareness, contributes to a larger movement for change.

Let us be the catalysts for a greener and brighter future, where clean air, thriving forests, and vibrant ecosystems are the norm. Together, we can rewrite the narrative of our planet and safeguard it for generations to come.

#ClimateChangeReality #BreathlessRealities #SustainableSolutions #ProtectOurPlanet #ClimateActionNow #RenewableEnergy #ConsciousConsumption #TogetherWeCan #RestoreHarmony #BeTheChange #ClimateJustice

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KI-CHA-NA part 1

Life beyond colors '

This project is meant to celebrate black beauty, vibrance and the uniqueness of our skin tone... Which has been on the end of racial abuse and profiling around the world. This is to entice and uplift our black race that we are beautiful people and we should always take pride in our skin color and use it as a special reminder of how far our people came to attain equality and the struggle to full freedom is still on......

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Model @mrsotieno_254

Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01

Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254

Lighting @dennis_otieno_254

Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke

Props @ochieng_kevin254

Location assistant @mrsotieno_254

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VYOMBO is a swahili word the translates to kitchen or house utensils.. this project highlights the norms and essentials found in almost every African household in the most vibrant way possible, the beauty of cultery, storage facilities for food and water all the essentials used in an African home. . .Project name : VYOMBO MODEL : @quan_yatchy Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01 Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254 Lighting @dennis_otieno_254 Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke Props @ochieng_kevin254 Location assistant @mrsotieno_254 #gainwiththeepluto #tembeakenya#gainwithpolasha #igerskenya #igkenya #igersnairobi #nairobikenya #nairobian #ignairobi #254fashion #iamnairobian #nairobikenya #10over10 #vscokenya #tembeakenya #nikonkenya #homeofportraits #publicity254 #gainwithspikes #gainwithxtiandela #gainwithpaula #gainwithbundi #visitkenya #magicalkenya #exploreafrica #madeinkenya #gainwithmchina #mirrorselfie #mirrors Call: 0798666469 /0746683343 Go follow and like our page Spartan photography Kenya for more updates and amazing images https://www.facebook.com/spartanpictures254/ (at Nairobi, Kenya) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb2EN37INSB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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KI-CHA-NA part 1 Life beyond colors ' This project is meant to celebrate black beauty, vibrance and the uniqueness of our skin tone... Which has been on the end of racial abuse and profiling around the world. This is to entice and uplift our black race that we are beautiful people and we should always take pride in our skin color and use it as a special reminder of how far our people came to attain equality and the struggle to full freedom is still on...... . Model @quan_yatchy Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01 Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254 Lighting @dennis_otieno_254 Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke Props @ochieng_kevin254 Location assistant @mrsotieno_254 #gainwiththeepluto #tembeakenya#gainwithpolasha #igerskenya #igkenya #igersnairobi #nairobikenya #nairobian #ignairobi #254fashion #iamnairobian #nairobikenya #10over10 #vscokenya #tembeakenya #nikonkenya #homeofportraits #publicity254 #gainwithspikes #gainwithxtiandela #gainwithpaula #gainwithbundi #visitkenya #magicalkenya #exploreafrica #madeinkenya #gainwithmchina #mirrorselfie #mirrors Call: 0798666469 /0746683343 Go follow and like our page Spartan photography Kenya for more updates and amazing images https://www.facebook.com/spartanpictures254/ (at Nairobi, Kenya) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbx1AwEot7F/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TRUE COLORS. Experience, explore your true strengths, style and seemless skills to show what one is really like : to reveal one's real nature .project name : True colors Model @gabrieljuma254 Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01 Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254 Lighting @dennis_otieno_254 Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke Props @ochieng_kevin254 Location assistant @mrsotieno_254 #gainwiththeepluto #tembeakenya#gainwithpolasha #igerskenya #igkenya #igersnairobi #nairobikenya #nairobian #ignairobi #254fashion #iamnairobian #nairobikenya #10over10 #vscokenya #tembeakenya #nikonkenya #homeofportraits #publicity254 #gainwithspikes #gainwithxtiandela #gainwithpaula #gainwithbundi #visitkenya #magicalkenya #exploreafrica #madeinkenya #gainwithmchina #mirrorselfie #mirrors Call: 0798666469 /0746683343 Go follow and like our page Spartan photography Kenya for more updates and amazing images https://www.facebook.com/spartanpictures254/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbsCeiaIfBl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Black and white photography is the art of using different tones of gray, ranging from white to dark, to create compelling images. This genre has a very long history – as long as photography itself.

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Together growth is inevitable

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VYOMBO is a swahili word the translates to kitchen or house utensils.. this project highlights the norms and essentials found in almost every African household in the most vibrant way possible, the beauty of cultery, storage facilities for food and water all the essentials used in an African home. . .Project name : VYOMBO MODEL : @quan_yatchy Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01 Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254 Lighting @dennis_otieno_254 Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke Props @ochieng_kevin254 Location assistant @mrsotieno_254 #gainwiththeepluto #tembeakenya#gainwithpolasha #igerskenya #igkenya #igersnairobi #nairobikenya #nairobian #ignairobi #254fashion #iamnairobian #nairobikenya #10over10 #vscokenya #tembeakenya #nikonkenya #homeofportraits #publicity254 #gainwithspikes #gainwithxtiandela #gainwithpaula #gainwithbundi #visitkenya #magicalkenya #exploreafrica #madeinkenya #gainwithmchina #mirrorselfie #mirrors Call: 0798666469 /0746683343 Go follow and like our page Spartan photography Kenya for more updates and amazing images https://www.facebook.com/spartanpictures254/ (at Nairobi, Kenya) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbmTqJLoiPl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Outdoor on location shoots MODEL Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01 Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254 Lighting @dennis_otieno_254 Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke Props @ochieng_kevin254 Location assistant @mrsotieno_254 #gainwiththeepluto #tembeakenya#gainwithpolasha #igerskenya #igkenya #igersnairobi #nairobikenya #nairobian #ignairobi #254fashion #iamnairobian #nairobikenya #10over10 #vscokenya #tembeakenya #nikonkenya #homeofportraits #publicity254 #gainwithspikes #gainwithxtiandela #gainwithpaula #gainwithbundi #visitkenya #magicalkenya #exploreafrica #madeinkenya #gainwithmchina #mirrorselfie #mirrors Call: 0798666469 /0746683343 Go follow and like our page Spartan photography Kenya for more updates and amazing images https://www.facebook.com/spartanpictures254/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbX7t5joW9r/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ABOVE-GARBAGE

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People are not living here, they are only surviving,” says Father Maurizio Binaghi as he surveys the sprawling, smoking Dandora landfill site from an elevated position on the grounds of the school he runs in Korogocho slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Dandora is one of Africa’s largest unregulated landfill sites.

“The people who live near the dump have a saying,” says Father Binaghi: “‘I don’t know when I will die, but I do know what I will die from.’”

Korogocho literally means “crowded shoulder to shoulder” in Kiswahili. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi, home to 150,000 to 200,000 people and no larger than 1.5 square kilometres. The place is known for its high rates of poverty, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, widespread HIV/Aids… and the nauseating smells coming from Dandora.

Father Binaghi’s St. John’s School is located mere metres from Dandora. Moreover, illegal dumping has meant that smoking debris has encroached closer and closer to the school grounds, so acrid smoke constantly wafts into the classrooms.

Large marabou storks scavenge on the dump swarm and squawk overhead while students practice a variety of instruments including violins, trombones and saxophones in the school’s playing field.

Even in the library, the turnover of pages of well-worn textbooks and whispered voices are the only sounds in the school’s library. Children keep their heads down into the books as they prepare for exams. However, the unpleasant smell of rubbish, particularly burned plastic, pervades the room.

“Smoke from the landfill comes into our classes and even hinders our visibility,” says a student, Dalton Okoth.

“You get sick here often, coughing and breathing difficulties, and some of the children have eye problems from the pollution in the air,” says Felicia Alouch, another student. “Sometimes children don’t come to school because of illness and breathing difficulties such as asthma and allergies to smoke,” adds her classmate Antony Okinda.St. John’s school in Korogocho is literally and metaphorically a pillar of the community. It provides education to children from 5 to 18 years of age. While the school’s ethos is Catholic, it is open to children of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds. It offers much-needed hot meals to undernourished students while sex education is also offered. Meanwhile, its well-stocked library is open to all members of the community while a computer room offers students the chance to develop new skills.

Dalton and Antony are sponsored by the Tumaini Trust which was founded in 2014 by Talitha Puri Negri. The Tumaini scholarship, which has sponsored 90 children so far, aims to allow a larger number of students to access secondary and tertiary education even though their parents are not able to afford school fees.

However, one of the problems that stands in the way of students like Dalton and Antony is the air pollution emitted by Dandora landfill and the wide-ranging health risks it poses, particularly to children.

Recent studies have found that air pollution is linked to childhood cancers and cognitive impairment in both children and adults. According to the World Health Organization, up to 14 per cent of all children aged 5 to 18 years have asthma and every year, over half a million children younger than five die from respiratory disease linked to air pollution. It may also affect fetal brain growth.Dandora landfill, which covers approximately 30 acres, is the destination of about 850 tonnes of solid waste generated daily by Nairobi, which has a population of about 6.5 million people.

Despite being declared completely full in 1996, dumping continues on the landfill. One of the reasons that it continues to operate is that people make money from the waste.

Described as a “perilous recycling economy”, the landfill puts food on the tables of around 3,000 families. Men, women and children pick through waste from trucks that arrive in the dump. They are looking for plastic, food, clothes, paper and bottles that they can sell for much-needed income. Scavenging on the dump is done manually with no protection gear and equipment, thus exposing the dumpsite workers to serious health complications.

“People have very large families and are forced to go to the dump to find food that has been discarded by others,” says Antony. Directly outside St. John’s school, people sell scavenged leftovers from makeshift stalls or from tarpaulin laid out on the ground.

Leftovers for sale outside St. John’s School. Photo by Duncan Moore/ UN Environment

…or health hazard?

Air pollution is not the only source of contamination around the school area.

Waste from the dump has tainted the water supply. In May 2018, health officials in Nairobi issued a cholera alert following the death of two people, including a 13-year old girl from symptoms associated with cholera in Korogocho.

Mercury from the landfill also represents a danger to the local community and UN Environment found high levels of heavy metals in children living close to Dandora landfill.

What can be done?

Plans to relocate Dandora landfill to another site, away from the dense population centre that is Korogocho, have not happened as land is unavailable.

Other plans to locate recycling plants in Dandora have not come to fruition. Various initiatives from international partners to close the dump have also fallen through.

Locals complain that Dandora landfill is governed by gangs. Given that so much money is made from the dump, there is no incentive to close it. “Life here is a bit good but we have insecurity due to the dumping site because most of the gangs usually hide in those places,” says Dalton.

Non-governmental organizations are working to find other sources of employment for those who currently live off the dump.

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ABOVE GARBAGE by @spartan photography Kenya Dandora dump is a sprawling dumpsite, over 30 acres, in the heart of the Nairobi slums of Korogocho, Baba Ndogo, Mathare and Dandora. It opened in 1975 with World Bank funds and was deemed full by 2001. Yet it continues to operate, and people at the very bottom rungs of the socioeconomic ladder come here as their last hope to make a living from scavenging the waste, but in the same time exposing themselves to tremendous pollution. This case is a very accurate example of environmental injustice (environmental racism) whereby the poor societies of Nairobi are impacted by waste dumped from the whole greater Nairobi region, and are polluted with toxins. Yet, it is explained as the best solution for all because the poor people actually get food from there and scavenge for materials to sell to the recyclers. Dumping in Dandora is unrestricted and includes industrial, agricultural, domestic and medical waste. Studies have confirmed the presence of dangerous elements such as lead, mercury, cadmium and PCBs which are seriously hazardous for humans. Due to the underdevelopment of scientific bodies in Kenya but also to political clashes, popular epidemiology has been used to prove sickness and mortality in Dandora. No official study or statistics have been undertaken, therefore the “lay” knowledge is as valid as the official one here and can be considered street science. Fortunately it is also true that Nairobi is a capital with much international regards and a seat at the EU Environmental Programme (UNEP); therefore it would be strange if the biggest environmental organization would neglect this environmental catastrophe happening just 8 km from its headquarters. UNEP has commissioned a couple of studies showing dangerously high levels of heavy metals in the surrounding environment and in the body of local residents. Lead and cadmium levels were 13,500 ppm and 1,058 ppm respectively, compared to the action levels in the Netherlands of 150 ppm/5ppm for these heavy metals. The Stockholm Convention on hazardous pollution, which Kenya has ratified, requires actions aimed at eliminating these pollutants. The promise to act was agreed by the government, interested stakeholders and the civil society. Many global NGOs have called upon Kenyan government representatives and stakeholders to honor the integrity of the Convention and keep the promise of reduction and elimination of those pollutants. Unfortunately, as of December 2014, nothing has been done. On the contrary, more and more waste is addressed to the landfill and more and more is being permanently burned, more toxic substances leaching to the waters and air. The Nairobi River also passes besides the dumpsite according to UNEP aggravating the situation. The Dandora dumpsite is a sad picture of a multiple tragedy. The City Council of Nairobi was to decommission the dumpsite in 2012, after 8 years of planning. However, conflict between the council and the Kenya Airports Authority over the relocation of the dumpsite to Ruai has brought the process to a grinding halt. The community sees that there will be no easy end to this largest and most flagrant violations to human right and environmental health in the country. The dumpsite exists in contravention of several provisions to the Constitution of Kenya.

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#forgiveness #forgiveyourself #forgiving

You can't live seeing people in the mistakes they made, that's gone! it's the past. When you carry along a negative perception of the people that wronged you, you loose the essence of the matter. Learn to forgive and let go, it makes you stronger.

It doesn't matter who wronged you. Your ex girlfriend, wife or husband? It really doesn't matter. You can't go to the grave while your heart is still burdened by the idea of some people in the past that wronged you... you have to let go.

NOTE: Forgiveness is for you, as much as they want to hear that you have forgiven them; the most important part of it, is that it is for your healing!

By @spartanphotographykenya254 project: BONDAGE

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KI-CHA-NA

Life beyond colors '

This project is meant to celebrate black beauty, vibrance and the uniqueness of our skin tone... Which has been on the end of racial abuse and profiling around the world. This is to entice and uplift our black race that we are beautiful people and we should always take pride in our skin color and use it as a special reminder of how far our people came to attain equality and the struggle to full freedom is still on......

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.Model @dennis_otieno_254

Photography @spartan_photography254_eth X @spartan_photography_01

Concept and art direction @ochieng_kevin254 x @otienodennis_254

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VYOMBO is a swahili word the translates to kitchen or house utensils..

this project highlights the norms and essentials found in almost every African household in the most vibrant way possible, the beauty of cultery, storage facilities for food and water all the essentials used in an African home.

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.Project name : VYOMBO

MODEL : @mrsotieno_254

Production company @spartan_photography254_eth * @spartan_photography_01

Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254

Lighting @dennis_otieno_254

Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke

Props @ochieng_kevin254

Location assistant @mrsotieno_254

#nairobiphotographers #nairobiphotography #nairobikenyaphotographer #bestphotographerinnairobi #fashionphotography #creativephotography #creativepictures #nairobikenya #nairobikenyaweddingphotographer #trending #wednesday #wednesdaywisdom #spartanphotography #photoshootinnairobi #photoshoot #photoshootideas #creativepreneur #influencer #babybumpphotographyNairobi #photographyinnairobi #bestphotographer

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Go check out the project on Spartan photography Kenya ongoing hey @colgatetwominutetales

VYOMBO .

VYOMBO is a swahili word the translates to kitchen or house utensils..

, this project highlights the norms and essentials found in almost every African household in the most vibrant way possible, the beauty of cultery, storage facilities for food and water all the essentials used in an African home.

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.Project name : VYOMBO

MODEL : @glen_washington_17

Production company @spartan_photography254_eth

Photography and art director : @keemono_ and @otieno_dennis_254

Lighting @dennis_otieno_254

Styling by @yatchy_quan and @brandys_gallore_ke .

Props @ochieng_kevin254

Location assistant @mrsotieno_254

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#nairobiphotographers #nairobiphotography #nairobikenyaphotographer #bestphotographerinnairobi #fashionphotography #creativephotography #creativepictures #nairobikenya #nairobikenyaweddingphotographer #trending #wednesday #wednesdaywisdom #spartanphotography #photoshootinnairobi #photoshoot #photoshootideas #creativepreneur #influencer #babybumpphotographyNairobi #photographyinnairobi #bestphotographer

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Casualties of Wars..Children always find themselves on the bitter receiving end of disagreements and wars between communities, tribes and even nations around the world,being very vulnerable children deaths are reported during these times which is very heartbreaking. Casualties of Wars.....No one gave them a chance to choose peace. The more we fight the more uncertain their future and opportunities to a better life become more dim and dimmer.. STOP WAR .