Bakashimika.

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.