Mrembo is swahili for the beautiful one.

Every time i look at my pictures from that time I laugh and want to give every one that gave me bodyshaming comments a hot slap! I was hot AF to be honest! But i didn't know otherwise!

The mental health conversation was new to me in 2017. I was really in a bad place mentally and didn't know what it was I was going through or where to start seeking help. At that time, I had also begun to learn how to express myself with the camera. So day after day, I brought these feelings and thoughts to life with a series of images where I hid my models' faces with different types of veils, an expression of how I felt my life was like at that moment. Hiden emotions, Hiden tears, but at the same time i wanted things to remain that way because who likes to be vulnerable? Well this didn't last for so long as this body of work is part of what set of my fine art photography career, forcing myself of my shell. Cheers to that!

Margaret Njeri Ngigi (b.1996) is a passionate visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. Born, raised and currently living in Kenya. Her creative practice has an intrinsically activist element, encouraging conversation on typically taboo topics through her striking, celebrated portraiture. Margaret is particularly known for her powerful and nuanced representations of pressures facing young women in Kenyan society and reflection of what her life is like as she blossoms into womanhood.