Le Journal de la Photographie

Jérémy Saint-Peyre Kibera slum, seen from the south © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Nap at midday, Ebenezer Day Care$ School, Mathare Valley slum © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Daniel is unemployed, like approximately 45 % of all Kenyans. He comes from upcountry. At the end of the first school cycle, he asked to his parents to finance his studies in secondary school, but they couldn't afford to do so. He came to the capital and has benn living in Kibera for almost ten y... Jérémy Saint-Peyre Street with heavy traffic and lots of shops © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Phillip, a social worker, lives and works in Kibera. Before the post-electoral riots in December 2007 he worked part-time for an association. Following these events, with more than 1000 deaths in Kibera alone, he decided to work full-time. His association builds and restores houses in the slum to... Jérémy Saint-Peyre School dining room. No cutlery, single menu all week long © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Maureen, Conlyn and her son Deryl live together in the same room in Dandora Estate, an underprivileged and outlying district of Nairobi. It is necessary to live in groups in barracks in order to be able pay the rent. Here the walls are solid, the rooms are hygienic. All the inhabitants work, so t... Jérémy Saint-Peyre Football pitch on a saturday afternoon © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Daisy is a pupil in her first year of schooling. She is a lively and mischievous child. When she is not at the school, she helps her mother or is lies about in her grandmother's fruit and vegetable shop together with other children, with her cousins as well as with the uncles and the aunts who a... Jérémy Saint-Peyre Georges (in the second place from the left) and the orphans © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Joyce is a farmer who grows Sukuma Wiki, wich means literally "get through the week", a cheap vegetable. It is cultivated in bags of jute because of the lack of space. It is a very resistant and long-lived variety. Three months earlier, Joyce cooked and sold chappattis (thick pancakes made of whe... Jérémy Saint-Peyre Stray dog looking for food, near Fort Jésus © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Dieudonné (from the Ivory Coast), Jacques (Congolese from RdC) and Mathew ( Kenyan) are ministers. Jacques is sometimes invited by Mathew to preach in his church in Kangemi, an underprivileged district similar to Dandora. Rooms for religious practice are often modest, set aside in buildings and f... Jérémy Saint-Peyre Evangelistic mass, Kangemi Estate © Jérémy Saint-Peyre Jérémy Saint-Peyre Daniel looking after his shoes © Jérémy Saint-Peyre