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Nairobi Fashion Week was Bill's first editorial assignment. The images from it ended up anchoring the whole portfolio.
Shooting NFW means reading light that keeps changing, no second chances on a frame, trying to get shots that say more than "this is what the outfit looks like." The black and white image that shows up across this site came from that day.
What's not obvious looking at it: it was planned. Before the event, Bill built a moodboard, and one of the references in it was compositionally almost identical to the shot he came away with. The frame shows a white model seen from behind the crowd on the runway, heads of people in the foreground thrown out of focus, seated spectators on the other side, and behind them a wall of photographers with their lenses all pointing at her. Every line leads to the same place. Bill knew what he was looking for before he got there.
The rest of the series covers the event: runway, backstage, the quieter moments in between. This was a chance to document East African fashion properly rather than just cover the event.