REAL PEOPLE OF EAST AFRICA

Name: REAL PEOPLE OF EAST AFRICA
Brand: Photo Edition Berlin
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By Roland Brockmann, Roland Brockmann

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Preface: This is not a book about Africa, but about people I met there on four journeys (2016 – 2017) through Kenya and Tanzania. They do not represent a continent, but just themselves. They talk about what concerns them: success, failure, love, separation, hope, everyday life – the common challenges of life. And they do so in their own words. I just provided the platform, while they offered me the photographic stage: their fire place, their workshop, their apartment, their field – in other words, their centre of life. I hardly ever felt as free as on those four trips over land by minibus, motorbike taxi or on foot. It was a great adventure not to search for something, but to discover what was already there. Of course, I also had certain images in mind when I started out, but they were soon pushed aside by the first encounters. Instead, other stories came up, far more personal ones than I had expected. They form the backbone of this book. It was all about meeting people at eye level. As a photographer, I decided on the composition of the images, but didn‘t arrange anything and didn’t even use artificial light. When taking the pictures, my job was mainly to focus on the essentials. With some luck, this resulted in portraits that show no circumstances, but people living their lives: getting up in the morning, drinking tea, with or without milk, and facing the new day – just like all of us. About the Author: Roland Brockmann is a Berlin-based Journalist, Photographer and Video Producer. Born in Hamburg, he studied Sociology before moving to Berlin in 1994 as a journalist, where he first worked as an editor and later as a freelance reporter. Since then, he has been reporting from more than fifty countries on four continents. Between 2002 and 2004 he lived as a foreign aid worker in Dar es Salaam and from 2005 to 2006 as a freelance correspondent in Nairobi. Since 2011 he has been working as a cameraman and photographer for numerous charity organizations.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 112
Release Date:: 2018-01-15
Publication Date:: 2018-01-15
Publisher:: Photo Edition Berlin
Languages:: Published: English, Published: German, Original: English, Original: German
ISBN10:: 3947451024

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