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Pin Up: The Timelapse Beauty of Nairobi Through The Xi-Xo Collective

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- 27 May 2016
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A new generation of African artists are emerging, a sort of renaissance within the continent of awareness and character, an awakening that has seen expression at various levels of art.

Pin Up: The Timelapse Beauty of Nairobi Through The Xi-Xo Collective

Xixo Collective, a group of Kenyan creatives have just released a time lapse portrait of Nairobi through the magnificent collective of Sigma and Canon lenses with a mission of creating possibilities.
They Collective reckons this timelapse will allow the public to "Experience the chaos and beauty of Nairobi" through the bustle of the city, in its rush and its slowness.

"It is a lapse in the time sphere here, and a fast forward of the usual bustle there. Travel with us from roof tops to the streets as we chase sunsets and at times, oncoming traffic. Welcome to The City that never ceases to astound."

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