Super Grannies NFTs by Tobin Jones

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Super Grannies NFTs

Copyright Tobin Jones 2024

Updated Apr 2022

Location Nairobi, Kenya

Topics Aging, Arts, Arts & Entertainment, Beauty, Black and White, Combat, Community, Conceptual, Crime, Culture stories, Documentary, Feminism, Film, Film Stills, Fine Art, Gender, Hope, Illustrations, Mixed Medium, NFT, Perspectives, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, Rape, Senior Citizens, Street, Tech, Technology, Violence, Weapons

In the Nairobi slum of Korogocho, there exists a group of grandmothers skilled in the ancient art of Kung Fu. This secretive society of women, “Shoso Jikinge” or Swahili for “Grandmother, Protect Yourself!”, was created by its members to help defend against gangs who pray on the older women within the slum at night. Learning how to punch, kick, stab, and scream - the women have now turned themselves into a formidable foe few want to challenge.

Super Grannies are a set of trading cards, each depicting a separate member of the Shoso Jikinge self defense society, that have been turned into NFTs and are currently being sold on the Ethereum blockchain. Each card connects to the original black and white film photograph taken with medium format film on a Rolleiflex (later colorized manually to create the image seen on the card).  

Each time Super Grannies cards are traded a 10% royalty fee will be applied - with 5% going back to the artist and 5% directly back to the Shoso Jikinge society of women. The model represents a new way to not only fund modern photojournalism, but also the subjects photographed by the photographers.

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