new shoes

These boots started life as a tracing of my foot on a scrap piece of card. Raphael is a shoemaker working out of wooden shack in Meru, Kenya. He studied at the local polytechnic before starting his own business making safari boots and repairing shoes. Small shops and businesses, from dressmakers to carpenters, appear in clusters along the dusty roads around Meru. People sustaining themselves and their families through their own skill.

* little bit of kenyan dirt in there.