Jim Chuchu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jim Chuchu
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Aug 7, 1982(1982-08-07)
Age	42
Birthplace	Nairobi
Country	Kenya
Birth City	Nairobi County
Horoscope	Leo

Jim Chuchu Biography

Jim Chuchu is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on August 7, 1982 in Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya. Jim Chuchu (born 7 August 1982) is a Kenyan filmmaker photographer, musician, as well as a visual artist. He first gained attention by being a part of Kenyan band Just A Band and subsequently as the director of Kenyan LGBT film Stories of Our Lives.

in 2012 Chuchu was a co-founder of The Nest Collective which is a multidisciplinary collective of artists and spaces in Nairobi.

In March 2013, Chuchu produced and released Imaginary Chains as pseudonymous act Adeiyu. One of the EP singles – Hollow – was featured in the Mercedes Benz Mixed Tape 55. He followed this EP by releasing the single You Can’t Break Her Heart in September 2013.

Pagans is a photographic series created by Chuchu that seeks to “[reconstruct] future-past anonymous African deities, their devotees and forgotten religious rites.” One untitled work from 2014 depicts “a being with lustrous skin and sculpted muscles [who] looks upwards as fire and feathers emerge from his face.” To create the pieces, Chuchu took black and white photographs of individuals, drew and painted additional elements on them, then scanned and digitally altered them.

A variety of photographs by Pagans were featured in an exhibition entitled “Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness” in the eleventh Dakar Biennial. The exhibit was among the first in the African continent to be centered around homosexuality. The exhibit was closed in a hurry in the hands of the Senegalese government following Muslim fundamentalists who opposed homosexuality in Senegal destroyed the gallery.

Jim Chuchu Net Worth

Jim Chuchu is one of the richest Photographer from Kenya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Chuchu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from his college at the end of 2006 where he was studying communications, Chuchu began his career as a graphic artist, working in the area of advertising. Chuchu quit his job to be a graphic designer freelance at the end of 2006.

in 2008 Chuchu formed Just A Band along with fellow musicians Bill “Blinky” Sellanga and Dan Muli, whom he was a student at Kenyatta University. Jim was a part of the group, and was also the producer of the band’s three first album studios, Scratch to Reveal, the 82 album, as well as sorry for the Delay and also designing graphic artwork for the band , and also directing several of the video clips – which included “Ha-He” which spawned viral sensation Makmende. This caused the footage to be later described as the first Kenyan viral internet viral meme, according to the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fast Company.

In October 2013, Just A Band announced that Chuchu had left the band to pursue his solo projects. Following his exit, Chuchu then directed his first short film Homecoming as part of the African Metropolis project, which premiered at the 2013 Durban International Film Festival, then went on to screen at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Film Festival Locarno and the Seattle International Film Festival in 2014.

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Facts & Trivia

Jim Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kenya. Jim Chuchu celebrates birthday on August 7 of every year.