Today, on the front page of the @nytimes.com website. How Kenyan Villagers Saved Their Sacred Caves From a Mining Company www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

The first in our series exploring storytelling in the humanitarian and development sectors. In this piece, we reflect on the power and responsibility of photography in crisis settings and why ethical storytelling means centering the voices of those most affected.

"The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis ... has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h... - @stephanienolen.bsky.social

A Kafkaesque tale unfolding in this @stephanienolen.bsky.social story of tuberculosis programs in the wake of aid cuts (all the more the case given Kafka died of TB).

Your images play such an important part in telling this story, Brian. Thank you.

Critical reporting from Stephanie Nolen on what the interruption of TB funding actually means for those living with the disease--and those caring for them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Yesterday on the frontpage and double spread of the @nytimes, with Stephanie Nolen, writing about the impact of USAID funding cuts on TB treatment and the lives affected.

On the homepage of the @nytimes.com today. Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease. Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h... Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah.com for @nytimes.com Words by Stephanie Nolen

Rainy Days. Photo by ©️ Brian Otieno @Storitellah /@kiberastories #KiberaStories #Storitellah

Yesterday on the frontpage of @nytimes ARTS. An evolving ecosystem of literary spaces is promoting writers and changing the stories told about the region. Read more >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/b...

Yesterday on the frontpage of @nytimes. Snakebites kill some 120,000 people per year, many in rural Africa, where treatment is scarce. Read more >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. Read more >> www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h... Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah Words by Apoorva Mandavilli

2024. And other stories. Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah #storitellah #StoritellahDiaries #tellahtales

Security lights cast a glow over the rooftops of Kibera on a lively night. The lights enhance visibility and safety within the community. Photo by © Brian Otieno @storitellah.bsky.social #KiberaStories

One of my photos, taken on June 25 during the protests in Nairobi, Kenya, has been featured in The New York Times Year in Pictures!

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

A series of brutal murders in Kenya in recent months, documented by the police and human rights groups, has stunned the nation and prompted protests across the country. Calls are intensifying for the authorities to do more to stop the killings of women and girls. Photos by ©️ Brian Otieno for NYT

Nairobi. Photos by © Brian Otieno @storitellah #storitellah #StoritellahDiaries

“I now know how to talk to survivors of defilement, thanks to the lessons learned from the 160 Girls Project.” #160girlsandme #equalityeffect #16Days

“The project has taught me how to protect myself and my friends in society.” #160girlsandme #16Days #equalityeffect

Here to build my own algorithm. Documentary photography, video and stuff.