Okayafrica spent An African Minute with a self-taught photographer on the rise, Martin Kharumwa. Check out some of  this Uganda native’s compelling images which range from fashion editorials, action shots, portraits, landscapes to conceptual imagery and whimsical impressions.

OKA: You seem to have such an eclectic body of work. Can you describe your exact aesthetic, if you have one?

MK: The author Elizabeth Gilbert shared at a TED talk about Ruth Stone‘s inspiration for her poetry, and how the source of her poems would be this strange “force”that would impose itself on her in the most random places and times; and she’d do her best to capture that story or poem before it left and went onwards.

A lot of times, that is pretty much how my personal work comes to me. I see an image and I want it to come to life and do whatever it takes, and it stays with me until i execute it or banish it and let it die away. Everything outside of that is an experiment on technique and style.

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