A Kenyan-born photojournalist, Kabir Dhanji, has reportedly been selling gory photos taken during last Tuesday’s terror attack at DusitD2 complex in Nairobi’s Westlands area.
The Daily Nation reports that Dhanji, who has worked for some of the renowned international media houses, is selling images of the victims through Getty Images, a visual media company with headquarters in Washington, United States.
The photographer has allegedly posted a total of 175 images from the attack, each selling at Sh50,000.
The sale of the disturbing images comes days after Kenyans on social media attacked The New York Times for publishing sensitive images from the attack.
Some Kenyan social media users even demanded for deportation of The New York Times‘ correspondent in Kenya, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura.
The New York Times has refused to pull down the article containing the pictures and also refused to apologize for their actions. The Media Council of Kenya has threatened to take action against the media company.
Dhanji, who holds both Kenyan and Australian citizenship, has previously worked in war tone countries including Somalia, Egypt, and Libya.
Good for him. International…
Good for him. International media houses need to diversify and stop depending on journalists who work in kenya media houses for pictures and information verification.
Bonface Mwangi has a book full of pictures from 2007/2008 PEV.
In his book, he has several Kenyan journalists.
Larry Madowo is also in the book wearing a diaper.
How come no-one has attacked Boniface Mwangi for selling a book full of dead Kikuyus and kalenjins???!
Kenyan journalists and media houses have been selling these pictures to NGO’s and International media houses.
It is time for free-lance photographers to work with international media houses.
Kenyan journalists have shamelessly shown they support attacks on journalists.They cannot be trusted. They have exposed themselves.
Therefore, they are on there own.
Is it ethical to enrich…
Is it ethical to enrich yourself on tragedy? If he is selling the pictures of fires on buildings( if okay with owners) I do not see anything wrong with that. If it is the faces of people who never gave consent prior to taking pictures, it is not okay. It does not matter whether he has worked internationally, we know he would not display gory pictures of dead people in say France or Belgium for sale in Western countries so why do so to the helpless in Afghanistan, Syria unless you are calling for help and why pocket the blood money? But recently we have seen that some Kenyans will sell their souls for money.
Kenya media houses sell…
Kenya media houses sell pictures to international media houses.
It seems the Newyork times decided to buy pictures direct from Kenyans on Twitter.
That’s why kenya journalists and the media council of Kenya were attacking them.
The “REAL KENYA” vs the KENYA from government sponsored Kenya journalists.
Majority of Kenya journalists are government apologists.
Governments hate apologists and their day of reckoning is coming.Watachapwaa.
Nothing wrong with that…
Nothing wrong with that. Compare that to the selling of Kenya to China by Uhuru.