Boniface Mwangi is a 24 year-old Kenyan who has been doing photography since 2005. After a short stint studying photojournalism in a school that had no photography equipment, Mwangi hired a camera and began photographing daily life in slums, markets, and streets. His first pictures were used in the newspaper, The Standard, which took him on as a regular contributor. After receiving two awards from the Kenya Union of Journalists Awards, Mwangi was offered a job as a "Papparazo"at The Standard, and worked for two years photographing celebrities. A stringer for the major wire agencies during the recent election violence in Kenya, Mwangi's work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, International Herald Tribune, and BBC Focus in Africa Magazine.
Mwangi is now a staff photographer for The Standard and is working on a photography book on Nairobi.