JAMBO-MAMBO

JAMBO-MAMBO __ In Swahili, Jambo and Mambo are two words used as a colloquial greeting, of direct reply when people meet. This project is built in the form of a dual conversation through diptychs between portraits and places, as a kind of shot-reverse shot on a journey around northeast Tanzania and Zanzibar through the people who crossed my path.



A country portrayed through its people. Tanzanians from the mountains, from villages, from cities, from coast, young, old, ...as a roadmap.



PHOTO DETAILS:



001. Dar es-Salam Man. A man from the city. A slot machine outside a bar.

002. The students. Three young students from Usambara´s Mountains.

003. Jambiani man. Young man smoking in Jambiani streets. A fully decorated car.

004. New warriors. Group of young Masais living apart from their village. When young Masais turns around 14, they start some ceremonies and tribe´s traditions like this initiation proof.

005. Seaweed collector. In Zanzibar there are great tide´s changes. This effect on the beach is taken by local people for many uses. While low tide, sea water recedes few kilometres showing seaweed crops. Algae are collected by women, as Mariam, for selling for many purposes.

006. Gideon Shija. A student from Dhow Music Academy in Stone Town.

007. Regina is the owner of the house close to the Lutheran Church in Mtae, a village at the end of the road in the mountains between Tanzania and Kenya.

008. Msafiri, the tailor. A young fashion designer from Dar es-Salam wearing his own blazer jacket. His humble studio in his house, in Mwenge neighbourhood.