Moira Forjaz, Ancha Abudo Suarimo, 79 years old, 2012, Digital Print, 49 x 68,5 x 3.5
cm, ©all rights reserved to the author, photo courtesy of AKKA Project.
Saturday 17 October, 4 pm BST on the Photo London Instagram channel,@photolondonfair.Free, no registration required.
Moira Forjaz is one of the first women-photojournalist of Mozambique, and of the African continent. Her photos, both black and white and colour, tell the story of a Country in its profound social and cultural transformation. Her work is an invaluable window on Mozambique’s post-colonial era. Moira has captured through her camera lens the key changes occurring in this country, masterfully narrating the events and which have shaped contemporary Mozambique.
Moira’s photos reveal these events, through her unique gaze, sensibility and photographic technique. Some of the photos that will be presented during the live event are testimonies of the great friendship between Moira and the extraordinary South African activist and sociologist Ruth First. Among the works presented by Moira, there are also more recent colour photographs, which were taken with a digital camera. These colour photos were shot when Moira recently returned to Mozambique and decided to take a journey through time retracing an early period of her life. The conversation between Lidija and Moira will be followed by a Q&A session.
AKKA project present works by at Photo London Digital.
