Jahanguir, freelance camera man for TVM (Mozambique’s national TV station) runs the still functioning Portuguese cinema in his hometown Gurue. A real life example of Cinema Paradiso.

There is a parcel with new cameras at Chileka Airport, with a whopping 38 410 kwachas import duty on it. No single customs officer blinked an eye when I crossed borders with my first parcel. Why should I pay duty for an amount far exceeding the actual value, about 150 pounds?

Tete, the hottest place on earth, halfway on the main road connecting Zimbabwe with Malawi and eventually Blantyre, where a shipping with new cameras is waiting.
Tete looks as typical a Mozambican town as you can get: as if nothing changed since Independence, with retro neon billboards, and obviously, matching hotels.

Photographs from the cross-border football competition between the teams from Zumbo, Luangwa Feira (Zambia) and two villages at the other side of the Zambezi (Zimbabwe). Bairro Lusaka, named after the Zambian capital due to the amount of Zambians living in the neighbourhoud, are supposed to be the strongest.

The little home cinema, set up with an old VHS player and a colour TV at Restaurante Fatima, Zumbo.

My aim is to cross the border from Feira to Zumbo, and make my way further east to Tete. Transport after Zumbo is a problem: the road to Tete is in a dire condition and partly washed away by the floods of 2001. There is rarely a car making it’s way up. The alternative is […]

Luangwa Feira serves as the export station of dried and salted Zambezi fish (kapenta, buka buka) from Mozambique. Some of these pallets will end up for sale as far as the DRC, on the markets in Lubumbashi and Kisangani, some will be sold in Lusaka and exported to South Africa.