05/11/2026
Congratulations, Edwin.
Edwin Maina’s photograph from Rusinga Island on Lake Victoria was the cover of our November 2025 issue. The series inside follows fishing families who go out overnight for omena and the hand-painted boats along the shore. We showed his work at the issue’s rooftop launch party in Nairobi. Tomorrow he opens in Cape Town.
Edwin is self-taught. He painted from childhood, and photography started as a hobby before it became his main way of telling stories. He styles his subjects and builds his own sets, so his portraits sit between fashion, fine art and documentary. His work moves between Nairobi’s creative communities, Lake Victoria and the Kenyan coast.
He sees documenting East Africa from the inside as his responsibility, and his work shows the people, places and practices that shape the region today.
CHROMA: Contemporary Perspectives in African Photography brings together Edwin with from Nigeria and from South Africa. All three work with colour, identity and self-expression. It’s also a first for , which is known for archival photography and is now showing contemporary work.
📍 Gallery F, 78 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town 🗓 Wednesday 4 November, 18:30–21:30 RSVP: galleryf.co.za/chroma If you’re in Cape Town, go see it.
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