Gallery

The spirit of Africa

I was fortunate to feel the beauty of life in Africa. Coming to this continent I experienced as a return to my home, myself and feeling of freedom. This feeling was embodied in Africa itself, its magnificent wilderness, primeval in its people, and the diversity of cultures in countless variations. Below all these variations, common, archetypal structures that move far into the holy past of this continent can still be identified. The holy past is visible in the joy of life, but also in the pain and suffering in the eyes of its people who are still conquered and exploited by powerful world, in the past colonial, and now neocolonial forces.

These photographs are just fragment of another real and cultural dimension, completely foreign to a man of Western civilization.

Photographs from these collections mainly were made with people from several tribes (Mumuila, Mucuis, Himba, Mucahaona, Mucubali, etc.) which are living in Angola and Namibia.