Resourceful teenager capitalises on docu-photos
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Tembo has put her focus on documentary photography
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.
For too long, the state of many public schools has been a source of shame. We have all seen the pictures and heard the stories of broken windows, unreliable water and electricity, topped by classrooms that are not fit for proper learning. The establishment of the Education Infrastructure and Management Company Ltd (EIMC) signals that authorities are finally ready to take this problem seriously. We must commend the government for this initiative....