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These articles and photographs were created between 1987 and 1994, in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Zaire, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Malawi and Tanzania. While living in Kenya, Blumenkrantz worked as a photojournalist and documentarian for various relief and development agencies, including InterAid International and UNICEF. As a freelancer, he was a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in Kenya and elsewhere.

Blumenkrantz taught black and white photography workshops at the French Cultural Center in Nairobi, and conducted a photography training course for former rebel soldiers in Eritrea, which had just concluded a successful war of secession from Ethiopia. In 1992, he visited refugee camps in several African nations, compiling a documentary exhibition for the All Africa Conference of Churches. From 1992-1994, he ran an information department for the Undugu Society of Kenya, an organization dedicated to assisting street children and urban slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city.

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