Resourceful teenager capitalises on docu-photos
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
At such a young age Tembo has already worked on two documentary photography projects, Colourism: Shades of Africa, which focused on people of different races uniting released in 2016 and Man Up: A Boy’s Battle for Male Sensitivity, which focused on challenges that boys face when growing up into men, released this year. “I believe that photography in general is a way of telling a story once someone has captured a picture.
As for me I focus on social matters that take place in the community telling stories in different series of pictures that I package into a project,” Tembo said. She stated that documentary photography is powerful as it can change the way a certain subject is perceived by the society.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....