Bakashimika International Photography Festival | Celebrating Photography in Zambia and Southern Africa

Bakashimika.

International Photography Festival

Bakashimika [ba:ka:∫i:mi:ka:]
Bemba for: ‘Collective of Storytellers’
‘they will tell stories in the future’

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival is an annual photography festival which celebrates the rich photographic community in Zambia and the Southern African region. The festival provides a platform for emerging southern African photographers, who tell new and innovative African stories through photography and lens-based art.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival brings together the wealth of photographic practices in Zambia and the region and raises awareness of the existing photographic talent.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival recognises the lack of spaces for emerging photographic artists to show their work and network with the global photographic industry.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival gives a platform to the visual storytellers and their contemporary stories found within the vibrant and visually exciting photographic arts community of Southern African.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival recognises the steady growth in local audience numbers during photography events and aims to introduce photography to broader audiences in Southern Africa.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival contributes to creative education and photographic research in the region.

The Bakashimika International Photography Festival aims to be part of the international photography festival circuit and attract international photographic experts and bring international audiences to Zambia.

Image Courtesy of Harry Odunze

Exhibitions

Robert Nzaou

'Louzolo' Exhibition

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This award winning photo series is called 'Louzolo', which means 'Love' in Kikongo, a local Congolese language. The series explores the love languages in Congolese society, the do's and don'ts, what is acceptable and what's not... How much is too much, how can one express love in public. The images in this series portray a role reversal for what is usual in most Congolese households, showing men doing some of the things which are usually seen as a woman's domain, and demonstrating the joy that brings, to see a man doing even little things but which women appreciate very much.

Eltina Gaspar

Exhibition

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As an African, I have been fascinated by Bakongo cosmology since the first moment I came into contact with it. I strongly believe that our ancestors remain connected to us in the present, and as wise as they were, with a strong connection to the Gods and African roots at the time, they created pure and meaningful ways to remain alive in us, through stories, memories, and even in elements of the world such as air, earth, wind, and especially water.

Nothando Chiwanga

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Chiwanga work is deeply influenced by personal experiences, reinvention and everyday . In reflection on womanhood, She addressed themes such as education,food,bereavement,home tools and traditions . She uses her body as medium of memory and fiction to reveal the complex world of young womanhood in a changing society where traditional values are hanging by a thread and changing to become more relevant to the times .

Open Window University

Group Exhibition

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The photographs that are exhibited by the Students from the Open Window University forms part of projects that were submitted as part of their course work. Various topics are explored in their photographs

Alick Phiri x William Matlala :

I’ll be your mirror

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During the last decade of Apartheid, William Matlala (SA, 1957) made photographs of and for the people around him. Initially this provided him with extra income. From the late 1980s onward it became his profession. During th 1990s Matlala documented the labour movement extensively. Matlala lives and works in Johannesburg . He is an external advisor to students at WITS University, and still a practicing documentary and reportage photographer.

Afrextract:

Danny Chiyesu and Andrea Stultiens

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Afrextract is an interdisciplinary research project on "Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation". The project was initiated by Iva Pesa who is an assistant professor in contemporary history at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands who has been doing research in the copper belt for fifteen years. Next to the Copperbelt, Afrextract also investigates environmental histories in the Witwatersrand and the Niger Delta.

Exhibitions

Featured Artist

Robert Nzaou

Eltina Gaspar

Nothando Chiwanga

Harry Odunze

Patrick Chilaisha

Namukolo Siyumbwa

Scotty Jongolo

Natasha Mwila

Victor Mwakapila

Edith Chiliboy

Maingala Muvundika

Emmanuel Kooma Jnr

Alexander Bandela

Wakapemba Chisha

Chisaka Issac Chulu

Danny Chiyesu

Grace Mwansa Kayuba

Gwebe Kaunda

Joseph Imakumbili Kalumba

Josephine Mpuku

Kalenga Nkonge

Alick Phiri

William Matlala

Mulenga Mulenga

Yande Yombwe

Sana Ginwalla

Patience Mweemba

Dennis Mubanga

Tony Sekai Memba

Humphrey Zimba

The Team

Patrick Chilaisha

Co-Founder

Kerstin Hacker

Co-Founder

Geoffery Phiri

Co-Founder

Edith Chiliboy

Co-Founder

Priscilla Mpundu

Board Member

Louise Fedotov-Clements

Board Member

Partners.