Photographs of

Kenya, Africa by Stephen Scourfield

to accompany his book Beautiful Witness

‘These photographs aim to give the reader a taste of the

places and a glimpse of some of the people in Beautiful Witness.

I was a child who wanted to be a writer, and who later trained also as a

photographer, and then went out and discovered

a most remarkable planet.’ Stephen Scourfield

This work is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

Copyright © Stephen Scourfield 2013

Dawn in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

The city skyline of Nairobi. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Shifting wood on a bicycle near Nairobi. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Esther Wambura in the spinning room. Nanyuki Spinners and Weavers. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Lucy Wanjiru shows the mould from a cactus which is used as a dying colour by Nanyuki Spinners and Weavers. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Desert Acacia and Masai Mara landscape. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

A hippopotamus in a mud wallow in the Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

African elephants on the grass plains of the Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Lunch with a safari group under an acacia tree in the Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

An African elephant with young in the Masai Mara grasslands. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

A line of zebras. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Topi against the broad landscape of the Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

A lone lion male lion. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Honeymoon lion couple. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

A feisty lone elephant. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Female cheetah. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Hippos in the Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

One of seven lion cubs in a “nursery”. Their two or three mothers would have been away hunting. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Leopard in a tree asleep with the kill, a reed buck. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Cheetah. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Women dancing. The Masai village of Kolong, just outside the Masai Mara National Park. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

A woman in the Masai village of Kolong. Masai Mara. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Dan Silantoi in the Masai village of Kolong. Picture: Stephen Scourfield

Young Masai men dancing in Kenya. Picture: Stephen Scourfield