Untitled, 2014

Aperture is pleased to release this limited-edition print by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok in conjunction with the publication of “Platform Africa”.

“Mimi Cherono Ng’ok calls us to places at the edge and along the shore, away from the spectacle of stereotypes of Africa, and toward the beauty residing in everyday life. ‘I am drawn to those spaces where there are either two things opposing, or existing without a direct relation between them,’ Cherono Ng’ok says, reflecting on how her choice of subjects has been shaped by feelings of unfamiliarity in Nairobi, where she was born and raised, but which hasn’t always felt like home. Cherono Ng’ok offers a reminder that in moments of stillness—as we stand beside a companion on the beach contemplating recurrent waves, or pause at the threshold of an open door—we can feel most alive.”

—Hansi Momodu-Gordon, from Aperture Issue #227: “Platform Africa”

Archival Pigment Print on Fiber Paper
Paper Size: 31 2/5 x 20 2/5 inches
Image Size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Edition of 6
Signed and numbered by the artist

Mimi Cherono Ng’ok (b. 1983, Kenya) is a photographer who lives and works in Nairobi. She attended the University of Cape Town in 2006. In 2011, Cherono Ng’ok won first prize in the PhotoAfrica contest with her entry, Self-portrait. Having undertaken the Goethe-Institut’s Photographers Masterclass, Cherono Ng’ok participated alongside Musa Nxumalo and the late Thabiso Sekgala in its culmination exhibition Peregrinate: Field notes on time travel and space, in 2014. Engaging in projects across Europe, Cherono Ng’ok also completed a Sacatar Fellowship at the Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil, in 2013. She was selected to exhibit in the upcoming Bamako Encounters, the Biennale of African Photography in Bamako, Mali, and took up residency at the Fondation Donwahi in Abidjan.