Kinaxixi, 2010
100x66cm
Photography / Mixed Technique.
HQ Cotton Paper or direct impression over Aluminium Dibond.
Collection Far West Luanda.
No doors, no windows. There is no electricity. A fully inhabited skyscraper. A flat in this area costs 10 thousand euros a month. It is the most expensive capital in the world. The sky is cloudy and red. The 7-meter cars cross the downtown streets. The few stores have already closed. It has been a long day. A stressful day. In this image the center of everything is Love.
New Era, 2010
100x66cm
Photography / Mixed Technique.
HQ Cotton Paper or direct impression over Aluminium Dibond.
Collection Far West Luanda.
I saw her from the car, on the road that goes from Kalandula, Malanje to Luanda, in Angola. My face stuck to the car window.
Bonnie immediately said, “Stop the car, George!”.
There was his mother with her. I sat in the brush, in silence. A tank that had belonged to Unita, the armed movement that fought in the Angolan wars of Independence (’75) and Civil (2003). Jonah Savimbi, the leader, was shot with bullets in February 2002. He marked with his death the end of the civil war.
A young girl with an elegant gesture eats a mango. After 32 years of struggle, a New Era.
Golden Age, 2010
100x66cm
Photography / Mixed Technique.
HQ Cotton Paper or direct impression over Aluminium Dibond.
Collection Far West Luanda.
A family living in the mines, near Luanda, Angola.
70% of people in Angola live with less than 2 dollars a day.
In the United Nations rankings of infant mortality only Swaziland, Lesotho and Afghanistan rate higher.
Life expectancy is 47 years and 38% of people do not live beyond 40 years old..
Far West Luanda, 2010
100x66cm 40x26cm.
Photography / Mixed Technique.
HQ Cotton Paper or direct impression over Aluminium Dibond.
Collection Far West Luanda.
Every day, on orange tie and black suit. A new era of pioneers, businessmen from all over the world that challenge the most expensive city in the world with the aim of becoming rich.
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