State of Emergency

Photographer
Max Pinckers
Publisher

self-published
ISBN

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Publication Year

2024
Edition

First Edition (Limited to 1,500 copies)

Hardcover Swahili, English 448 pages 24 × 30 cm 2200g

Description

State of Emergency is a collaborative documentary project developed over a decade with Mau Mau war veterans and Kenyans who survived colonial atrocities. Since the British colonial administration systematically destroyed or hid thousands of documents related to the 1950s uprising, Pinckers and his collaborators created “imagined records” through in-person reenactments. The book interweaves these staged demonstrations with fragmentary archives, photographs of symbolic remnants, and survivor testimonies to rebuild a history of resistance and repression that was nearly erased from the official record.

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