INONZI MEMORY: Inonzi Playtime @ HIFA 2012

HIFA 2012 ' A show of Spirit occurred in May this year and it was quite literally seven days of action packed artistic expression of every kind!  Zimbo Jam was the official online media partner for HIFA and as Inonzi Memory is the photographic content supplier for www.zimbojam.com and defzee.com we were out there in full force capturing all the happenings of the festival. Over the next few weeks as a attempt to go through and catalogue the images from the the festival I will be sharing some with you here so keep a look out for all sorts of fun fair, beautiful artistic expression and the people of Harare having a good time interpreted through my lens!

While at HIFA my partner and I managed to find time to play too! 

Me taking a picture of myself and Fungai Tichawagana my partner as we looked at some creatively designed mirrors at the craft market at HIFA.

Battle of the photographer; who will take a better pic of us in the mirror! Lol!

This mirror is surrounded by recycled paper rolled up into tubes, a really interesting way to frame the mirror we thought.

The God Idea: How One Idea can Change the World by Musekiwa Samuriwo

I was  honoured when Musekiwa Samuriwo asked me to provide the imagery for his new book The God Idea. The image he settled one was one from my collection of images of The Head of Invention by Edardo Paolozzi which you can see here: The Head of Invention collection by E:thos 

Congratulations to Musekiwa Samuriwo on the launch of his book, The God Idea on the 30th March 2012

Find out more about the book here: http://www.facebook.com/TheGodIdea

Introducing Inonzi Memory

                               

 Hello folks!

It has been an absolute age since I last posted and I am pleased to report that its with good reason! Many of you are familiar with the E:thos brand which is my 'artistic name' by which I have been taking under while taking pictures since I started off on this journey o discovery that is becoming a 'photographer proper'. 

 Since moving to Southern Africa I have spent a lot of time building the brand locally on the ground to match the awesome support and following it has online so 2011 was all about building (networking and establishing links).  In this journey I met an awesome photographer whose brand name is fungaifoto and we clicked instantly! We have complementing styles so we thought that we should band together and out of our union Inonzi Memory was born.

Inonzi is a word from the Shona language of a Zimbabwean tribe by the same name. Inonzi means 'it is called' and so we named our combined effort 'Its called memory' because photography's primary purpose we believe is to record events in a way that will tell stories that emulate or re-create memories that individuals / groups / families hold dear to their hearts - hence the name INONZI MEMORY.

So this is what has been keeping me ever so busy and thats why you have not heard much from me on Passion in the Moments however now that Inonzi Memory is in full swing I will be dropping in more and more until normality is restored! 

Please do go over to Inonzi's online spaces and support it as it is an amazing initiative giving you all you love about Passion in the Moments and so much more from the diversity and growing number of other African / African based artists.

Enjoy!


Find Inonzi Memory online here:

Tel: (+263) 778284223

Add: 336 herbert Chitepo Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe

Website: www.inonzi.co.zw 

Twitter: www.twitter.com/@InonziMemory

FB Page: www.facebook.com/InonziMemory

Petina Gappah's take on education in Zimbabwe

Main image supplied for the article by Petina Gappah Guernica Magazine

I am proud to announce that my collaboration with Petina Gappah last year providing images for her essay on education in Zimbabwe was published on the 17th of January 2012 in  Guernica Magazine [Click here].