A boy walking by a home considered modern in Nakukulas. This settlement was built by Tullow, a Britsh-Irish company that first discovered oil here in Lokichar, northern Kenya, in 2012. The 'extractive development' deal that Tullow has with the Kenyan government means that while some communities are violently displaced, others may faced developmental advantages.

At Kaito Village, a man sits in the hot afternoon sun, resting after a morning spent fishing.

Turkana herders in Lodwar, the county's largest hub, on their way to bringing their animals home in the evening.

mere kilometers away from Lake Turkana, a camel has been slain as part of a wedding feast. “You have your wedding cake,we have our camels,” local Lucas Evans of Eliye springs tells me.

Turkana's arid landscape, one most ecologically suited for pastoralism, is criss-crossed by a mesh of seasonal rivers.

A school in Nakukulas, one of the settlements that Tullow helped develop in exchange for oil drilling rights.

Outside Lokichar, a few boreholes dot the arid landscape. Some were built by Tullow, an oil company sinking its teeth into oil production in northern Kenya, in return for contractual goodwill from the community. However, the Turkana largely feel abandoned by Tullow as years of oil piloting resulted in practically no lasting benefits. This borehole just outside Kalese village has largely dried up from a lack of maintenance.

Herders bringing their camels across a valley near Lokichar for pasture. Turkana is one of Kenya's most under-resourced and impoverished counties,

By the Turkwel Delta, a young boy corrals some errant bulls––skinny from the lean times of the drought––belonging to his community.