Sadly, unpolluted natural darkness is becoming rarer across the world. Noctura invites you to see the night through new eyes in remote places where you can still experience true darkness and the vivid life that inhabits it. Often, we think of the starry night sky as a canopy separate from the earth, when the night is really far more all-encompassing and forms a living and interconnected environment all around and surrounding us.

Kenya has an equatorial location that links the two halves of the celestial sphere, making both northern and southern constellations visible throughout different parts of the year. Across East Africa’s many cultures, the night has been interpreted and used in a vast number of ways, shaping how local people understand their place in the cosmos.