Nairobi Merchants by Steve Bloom
© Steve Bloom
Steve Bloom recently released Trading Places: The Merchants of Nairobi, his new book with publisher Thames & Hudson. The project explores sections of the Kenyan metropolis where locals shop, documenting the shopkeepers who decorate their small businesses with hand-painted signs.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pm EGMT+5
I am glad they realized this
November 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am EGMT+5
nice, i’ll take a trim please.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:07 am EGMT+5
Wow, looks like a fun place dude!
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November 13th, 2009 at 9:51 am EGMT+5
Weird it’s in english…?
November 13th, 2009 at 10:00 am EGMT+5
Interesting, everybody wants to feel beautiful and be beautiful. Nice marketing!
November 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am EGMT+5
It looks like i know where arsino hall got his haircut. see him? hes o the right…
November 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am EGMT+5
Brittany – Nairobi is a very very big city – most people speak English. In the more rural areas of Kenya people may not speak/read English but in the city it is very common.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:32 am EGMT+5
Um, English is the official spoken language in Kenya.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:20 am EGMT+5
English is one of the official languages in Kenya. I like the Obama campaign slogan in the back (Change we can believe in). No big surprise though, since his father was from Kenya.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:24 pm EGMT+5
Wow, this is great. Nice slogan
November 13th, 2009 at 4:10 pm EGMT+5
Good to see Arsenio Hall is working again.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm EGMT+5
Anybody notice the “Change we can believe in” painted on the back wall of the shop?