A day with a woman from Esiteti
15 images Created 17 Sep 2020
Just south of the Amboseli National park near the border of Kenya and Tanzania is a small village called Esiteti. Many of the communities that live here lead a nomadic life, but unlike most of the natives that live near them, these families live here merely by circumstance. After being evicted from one place to another by the National Wildlife service for fear of occupying wildlife corridors, this small community has settled for this area that seemed like the most sustainable for them and their livestock, despite the distance from many amenities.
Added to the fact that they are still constantly confronted with the issue of their current settlement also being a wildlife corridor which does not guarantee them a permanent settlement in this area, the reception from neighboring natives has not always been welcoming leading them to lead a quite isolated life.
But even more compelling, is the day-to-day lives of the girls and women of Esiteti who being Maasai assume. Over the past 1 and half years we have spent time training and equipping these women in photography skills so they could document the impact of living with wildlife being that they are tasked with most if not all domestic and care responsibilities of the homestead but what we got was raw unedited insights into their day to day lives. Here are their stories
Added to the fact that they are still constantly confronted with the issue of their current settlement also being a wildlife corridor which does not guarantee them a permanent settlement in this area, the reception from neighboring natives has not always been welcoming leading them to lead a quite isolated life.
But even more compelling, is the day-to-day lives of the girls and women of Esiteti who being Maasai assume. Over the past 1 and half years we have spent time training and equipping these women in photography skills so they could document the impact of living with wildlife being that they are tasked with most if not all domestic and care responsibilities of the homestead but what we got was raw unedited insights into their day to day lives. Here are their stories
