The control room during the 1:00 p.m. news program at NTV, one of Kenya's leading television news channels. Monitors reflect images fed from The Hague where senior Kenyan leaders appeared on charges related to Kenya's 2007 post-election violence.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

A construction worker sits at the end of a day's work. Nairobi, Kenya is experiencing a construction boom that sees new office buildings, flats and shopping centers mushrooming up all around the city.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

Rising paint prices forced artist Dickens Otieno, 32, to search for free raw materials to continue his work. Today he recycles tin cans into a canvas of woven metal.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

Since 2006, Evalin Aoko, 38, has been selling children candies and stationery from her verandah stand close to one of the largest secondary schools in Nairobi's Kibera slum. "I am aiming that one day I will be out from where I am now, somewhere better."
- [Brendan Bannon/]

A passer-by looks at a new Nissan SUV through the display window at DT Dobie in Nairobi, Kenya.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

Hip hop artist Octopizzo at the barbershop in Kibera, where he gets his trademark 8 shaved on his scalp.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

Maasai safari guides visit the Nairobi National Museum. The guides were visiting for the first time as part of a silver certification course.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

Homeboyz Kinyozi barber Stanley Okukumba, 21 years old, earns up to 800 KSH ($10.00) a day cutting hair at his shop in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum settlement.
- [Brendan Bannon/]

A young boy watches the approach to Nairobi from the window of a commuter train on April 12, 2011. The train service was introduced March of 2011 connecting Athi River to Nairobi.
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Associate video producer Diana Mekeye bounces light on Kenyan recording artist VQEE during a shoot for the music video for "Pole Musa," a remake of one of Kenya's pop classics. The song was originally made famous by Daudi Kabaka, a leading post-independence musician active in the 1960's. The song is about an abused woman, and VQEE hopes it spreads a message against violence and gets a new generation of Kenyans in touch with their musical legacy.
- [Brendan Bannon/]