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DAYLESFORD FOTO BIENNALE 05
When: June 3-July 3.
Details: 5248 5703 or daylesfordfotobiennale.org
THESE street kids begging outside the American
Embassy in Nairobi are now all dead.
Melbourne-based photographer Michael Coyne, who got to know them during his extended stay in Africa, says they perished when the embassy was blown up in 1998.
He was there when they laughed, he was there snapping away when a priest he was travelling with stopped to take the one with the broken arm to hospital.
These unnamed victims live on among Coyne's award-winning photographs, which take centre stage at the inaugural month-long 50- venue Daylesford Foto Biennale.
"I get to know people before I take any pictures, I find out about their lives, then I take photographs of them," says the quietly spoken Coyne of a 30-year career that has resulted in seven books and countless images.
"I take pictures because I'm interested in people, I like people...
