I burned my photographs on CD at Sociedade Negro e Filho, one of the Vietnamese-run business centers along the highstreet in Lubango and I left them a disposable camera as well.

Gabriel Paquisi, computer hardware vendor and his Congolese friends drinking at the bar upstairs from the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.

Dede and Nguito are working at Photo Diamanta, one of the countless Vietnamese run Konica photo labs you can find all over Angola, where you can go for passport photographs and numerous small computer tasks like word and spreadsheats.
Maybe I should have asked sponsorship at Konica-Minolta…

Nelito, history teacher at the secondary school in Cubal.

There’s one pensao in Cubal, behind the train station where the Benguela line ends. In the reception room, a man sits behind the light of an oil lamp. “Hoje, nao energia”, says Emanuel, who runs the place with his wife Avelina and the help of their daughter N’dinja. This will prove to be the same […]