Artur Gutowski
Pastor, Shaman, Demon
It’s a project about combating worlds: world of christianity and world of old shamanic practices.
I focus on the work of shaman Hamisi Musa and his younger brother. They live in a small city situated one hour from Mombasa. They have a small clinic where they receive patients. People come with various illnesses, but also for example to make a spell on someone. They have a price list of services.
The person to whom the spell was cast in most of the cases is going to the church to clear the spell. Pastor Samuel Wainana organizes a holy mass every week to help someone with spell. During the ceremony they singing christian songs and praying. The possessed person feels convulsions and shouts in a piercing voice at that moment...
Pastors go many times to the country's countryside to fight the work of the shaman. Last time three pastors have been killed during such visits...
Artur Gutowski
Freelance photographer. In 2017 he finished Polish National Film School with the title of Master of Arts. His works were published in: National Geographic, Digital Camera, Kontynenty, VICE, L’Hebdo, Der Greif, TON, Dialog-Pheniben, doc!, Musli, Eprawda, WladzaSadzenia, Newsweek, WP, Onet, Culture.PL, Swiatobrazu.pl, Niezlasztuka