Patrick Kabunse Chilaisha.


Photographer


Patrick Kabunse Chilaisha a Zambian photographer and lens-based digital artist, who specialises in fine art photographic manipulations.
His creative practice explores the nexus of self-expression and cultural identities. His work challenges historic narratives, explores current cultural understanding and invites to imagine alternative futures.

Patrick was the first Zambian lens-based artist to be shortlisted for the Cynthia Zukas Young Artists Award in YEAR. He showed his work in the prestigious Zambian Chaminuka Gallery during the "Transition" Young Artists exhibition in YEAR.

In 2020 he took part in the PhotoCovidZambia project organised by the Zambian National Visual Arts Council and Anglia Ruskin University and in 2024 he was selected for the Stories of Kalingalinga photography workshop.

In 2022 was awarded a joint Affects and Colonialism Web Lab Fellowship at the Freie University Berlin in Germany. Patrick is a member of the Zambian National Visual Arts Council.