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DJ Kampire from Uganda – Girls, don’t be afraid!_ger/engl
She DJs halfway around the world and is a role model in her native Uganda. Dj Kampire, aka Kampire Bahana from the capital Kampala. She has been DJing, mixing and remixing her own tunes for over six years. She is not only successful in Uganda. But there she has mastered the difficult leap from hobby to professional DJ. It all started at the Nyege Nyege Music Festival in Kampala, which is well-known in Africa. There she was a co-founder and is now part of the collective. The Nyege Nyege Festival has made a name for itself worldwide, and even in the West it is considered an insider tip to hang out there. But visitors from there are still the…
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EVERYTHING MATTERS – New Photo Essay from AndyMkosi-South Africa
Essentially the thinking behind these images was just to sharpen my skill and create outside of brief which is very important. You find that you loose your flair because of the brief. So Everything Matters serves that purpose and also forces me to slow down and consider I normally wouldn't when making images.
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Midgroove Fotoreportage2 _ Interview mit/with AndyMkosi
MIDGROOVE PART 2 Im letzten Post stellte cultureafrica.net die Fotoreportage Midgroove der südafrikanischen Multimediakünstlerin AndyMkosi vor. Für cultureafrica.net stellte Hans Hofele noch ein paar Fragen. HH: When I look at the pictures of the midgrooves series, I see less posing, more melancholy. Are you looking for these moments? AM: I am definitely looking for them. I went in there with that being one of my intents. But generally when I make I draw from moments. Even with images I make of my own family, they are usually never posed. HH: Wenn ich mir die Bilder der Midgrooves-Serie ansehe, sehe ich weniger Pose, mehr Melancholie. Sind Sie auf der Suche nach diesen Momenten? AM: Ich suche sie auf jeden Fall.…
