Nairobi, March 26 -- Thandiwe Muriu calls herself a commercial photographer.

She has every right to do so since, having just turned 30 the other day, Thandiwe has been taking photos and earning a living from it for more than a decade.

Yet her current showcase of photographs entitled 'Between Image and Identity' which she shares with fellow photographer, the Senegalese-Italian Adji Dieye, looks less commercial and more fantastic.

"It was time for me to let my hair down," says the Kenyan woman who has worked commercially with an array of corporates over the past 10 years. Everyone from Safaricom (she provided photos for their 2020 calendar), Ogilvy, EABL, and Airtel to NCBA Bank, Scanad, and even Sauti Sol.

She has had people fly in from ...