Adjacent Worlds

A traditional dancer moves through a luxury penthouse as currency from multiple nations rains down. He is unbothered. The room is not his. The money is not his. And yet he moves with complete authority, performing for no one, owned by nothing.

Adjacent Worlds is a series of photographic composites made in Nairobi, Kenya, exploring the layered realities of a city that holds multiple worlds simultaneously. Street vendors, motorcycle taxi drivers, Maasai elders, traditional dancers, and everyday workers move through a metropolis that is at once ancient, contemporary, and radically imagined — often within the same frame.

By collaging documentary street photography with illustration, animation, and graphic art, the series refuses the idea that these realities are in conflict. In Nairobi, the futuristic and the ancestral, the wild and the urban, the ceremonial and the commercial do not compete — they coexist, sometimes brushing shoulders at a traffic crossing, sometimes occupying the same body, the same street, the same sky.

Adjacent Worlds asks who gets to imagine a city's future, and whose presence is treated as background. It is a portrait of a place that has always existed at the intersection of worlds — and the people who move through all of them without losing themselves.