The photographs on this website were taken with disposable cameras by the people I met during my travels in Africa.
During the autumn 2005, I travelled from Dar Es Salaam down the coast to Maputo using local transport. Before I left the UK, I invented a small community art project and asked the people I met to take pictures about their daily life with disposable cameras, partly out of curiosity, partly as a way to document their everyday aspirations and ambitions, hoping these wouldn't be that much different than those from the people in the UK or Belgium.
I was amazingly surprised by the high quality pictures and original vision of the people in Tanzania and Mozambique, a vision without any pre-conceived ideas about the way their subject matter should look on film.
This was the very start for Another Day of Life. During the summer of 2006, I decided to travel through Portuguese Africa from Luanda to Maputo. I carried a box with disposable cameras I was hoping to distribute. The photographs on this website are the result of my trip. They don't have the frills we expect today from the most humble snaps in the age of photosharing. They are neither mind blowing or extra ordinairy from a photographic point of view. However, they show a genuine part of daily life from everyday people in Southern Africa, a view of substance over style which is genuinely refreshing in it's honest simplicity.
During the autumn 2005, I travelled from Dar Es Salaam down the coast to Maputo using local transport. Before I left the UK, I invented a small community art project and asked the people I met to take pictures about their daily life with disposable cameras, partly out of curiosity, partly as a way to document their everyday aspirations and ambitions, hoping these wouldn't be that much different than those from the people in the UK or Belgium.
I was amazingly surprised by the high quality pictures and original vision of the people in Tanzania and Mozambique, a vision without any pre-conceived ideas about the way their subject matter should look on film.
This was the very start for Another Day of Life. During the summer of 2006, I decided to travel through Portuguese Africa from Luanda to Maputo. I carried a box with disposable cameras I was hoping to distribute. The photographs on this website are the result of my trip. They don't have the frills we expect today from the most humble snaps in the age of photosharing. They are neither mind blowing or extra ordinairy from a photographic point of view. However, they show a genuine part of daily life from everyday people in Southern Africa, a view of substance over style which is genuinely refreshing in it's honest simplicity.
