Apart from a few gated communities in the big cities, there were no air-conditioned department stores, paved roads, assured mobile signals, guarantee on reliable running electricity, let alone protection from state corruption and bribery when my friends and I travelled East Africa. And yet, clearly standing out from the local crowd, we were warmly welcomed, met with interest and bid farewell with a warm heart even by the socially most vulnerable.

A wonderful, enlightening and life-changing experience – Only now I painstakingly realised that we few from wealthy industrialised countries are actually the blind, priviledged and reality-averse outsiders in a world with far lower, but humanly at eye level meeting standards.

Olympus Ecru, Ilford – 400, Ilfosol-3