Jahawi Bertolli, National Geographic Explorer, Photographer, Writer & Filmmaker
Nairobi, Kenya
Jahawi Bertolli is a filmmaker, photographer, and music producer from Kenya who specializes in wildlife and the underwater world, striving to portray the beauty, power, and vulnerability of wild environments. His work has taken him across Kenya, from the remote northern coast to the Masai Mara, as well as to distant corners of the globe, like Myanmar and the Galapagos Islands. He has worked with the BBC Natural History Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, safariLIVE, CORDIO, and SVT Sweden, and had showings at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., the UN headquarters in New York and is also a National Geographic Photo Camp instructor. Before becoming a photographer, Bertolli worked in the music industry and is an accomplished music producer with releases and remixes on international record labels. In 2018 he stumbled upon an ancient rock gong in the central Serengeti, which reignited his musical curiosity, and the First Rock project was born. He is working on recording ancient African rock gongs, along with the voices and instruments of the tribes who live close to them, to create contemporary music that highlights the ingenuity and complexity of ancient Homo sapiens. Bertolli is also currently establishing the East African Ocean Explorers Club, which aims to inspire a new generation of Kenyan ocean explorers who will champion marine conservation.
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