Ian Nnyanzi — Ugandan Artist, Filmmaker & Photographer

Dreaming whilst walkingKafumba MwanyiEKUKA - TTEC ME OT JOKA VOID LIFEBUZIGAHILL

September 2026

Dreaming whilst walking

Dreaming whilst walking - Photo book // Ongoing

The dérive as defined by the Situationist movement of the 1950s is an unplanned walk through a landscape. The dérive invites the person performing it to leave behind the external forces that shape our movements through it. Whether they be geographical or psychological. In the city, these forces are often informed heavily by capitalist desires.
  • Photography
  • book

September 2026

Kafumba Mwanyi

Kann’emu kana’bbiri, Kafumba mwanyi Katta konkomme Malangajja Kanakwaale, ofumba otya? Bulijjo bulijjo Kambaale baale kkumi liwezze, jjaawo! A Luganda oral rhyme song loosely translated to: A one, A two, the one who boils coffee. Gecko killer, Malangajja. Kanakwaale, how do you cook it? Again and again. Count to ten — it is ready now, remove it.

One of my earliest memories of coffee does not come from drinking it, but from sound. As children, we sang the rhyme “Kann’emu kana’bbiri kafumba mwanyi” without fully understanding what it meant. The words recited in play times in repetition, carried through schoolyards, compounds, and evening gatherings. At the time, Kafumba Mwanyi existed to
  • Photography

October 2024

EKUKA - TTEC ME OT JOK

Video Direction: Ian Nnyanzi

The first studio album from lukeme maestro and legendary Langi griot Ekuka Morris Sirikiti, 'TE-KWARO ALANGO-EKUKU' is an emotional and historical milestone.
  • MUSIC VIDEO

January 2023

A VOID LIFE

In a world where without finality, a film unravels the cyclical nature of existence through rituals, performance art, and ancestral connection, exploring the evolving ways we mourn, celebrate, and find meaning in an endless journey shaped by pain, loss, and grief.

A Void Life (2023)
  • FILM

July 2022

BUZIGAHILL

Photographer and Cinematographer, Buzigahill

Photographer and cinematographer for Buzigahill’s Return to Sender project 2022 - 2025, including collection photography and video work for its 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial presentation.