Kumbu Kumbu the visual memory card game. Challenge yourself. Challenge with others. Enthrall flipping and memorizing original artistic photography cards captured from San Francisco and beyond of people, places, and things.
Kumbu kumbu, is educational, interactive, and fun; flip once, flip twice, remember.
Kumbu Kumbu Double Deck Dare Deal
Double the challenge and your memory
Combine | 2 Decks | 110 Cards
Kumbu Kumbu
Visual Memory Card Game
Educational. Interactive. Fun.
Flip once. Flip Twice. Remembered!
The Kumbu Kumbu Deck
2 Decks X 55 Card Total
28 Original artistic Black & White double photographs
2.5” inch x 3.5” inch | (57x89mm) Portrait Orientation
Card Type: Custom Bridge Size Playing Cards
The quality of the cards is a S33 card stock with an extra smooth black core finish considered to be one of the finest available. The S33 card stock is made to look cleaner, extra durable, and all in all, possesses a superior feel to them.
Packaging: Clear Plastic box/2 parts container & lid
Instruction Booklet - Color Bi-Fold 4 Page
Kumbukumbu is Swahili for Memory
Concept & Original Photography by
Kurt Bransford-Young
Produced by
Fingersnaps Media Arts
San Francisco
Spring 2020
kumbu kumbu demo - short lenght - quick overview
what inspired kumbu kumbu
My first attempts with shooting with a 35 mm film camera when I was a teenager was challenging and disappointing. I had the eye and the vision that connected me with my subjects but many of my photos were developed back blank; over or under exposed. After years of practice I am able to technically capture what I see using which every method I use.
Kumbu Kumbu is a near and dear artistic project. I recreated the concentration game with a rich fondness and passion for my images and the matching card game. As a child I played the matching card game religiously while in my early years of education. As a child with a learning disability/dyslexia learning in a formal academic environment left me feeling of being confused, disconnected, and stupid. My special education teachers introduced the concentration game at 7 years of age and I mastered it. To this day I have a keen visual memory.
The concentration game was the most important educational tool that I excelled in which gave me the confidence and self-esteem to want to keep learning in my primary subjects. The memory card game inspired me to keep learning!
-Kurt