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Makwa Express - 15 days in Northern Mozambique

Welcome to Ilha	B/Proib/pido... Aww...Whatever	Ride My Bike	Dog Day Afternoon	The Excellent Driver	A Planted Terrace
Cinema Is A Religion Too	Hush My Baby	Plaza	The Old College	Looking Out Your Backyard	When I'll Be Tall
Silversmith Workshop	Let's Dance	A Day At The Cinema	Fishermen's return	Money (That's what I want)	Peaceful Easy Feeling
The Nightshift	Small Silhouettes	Selling Kassava	At Night, Makuti Chats	Ghostriding	Skinhead Girls
Makuti Nights	My Place In The Sun	Carry'em Quick	We Salute You	High-Kid Portrait	The Players
Sommersault	Red Boy	The Look	WaterGirl	The Golden Girl	Muslim Girl
Red Checkered Girl	Pleased to See You	Msiro	Meet My Better Half	The Fashionista	Vasco de Gama
Futebol	Knock- Knock-Knocking on Ilha's Door	Ilha Shopping Arcades	Big Yellow	O Escondidinho	A Senhora
Three Mini Magus	Violet Biker	Ilha's Public Loo With A View	Behind the Green Mosque	The Yellow House	Out of the dark
The World at Dona Maria's Door	The Catch	The Mankind at Dona Maria's Door	Playful Doggy	Home Is Where the Heart Is	Catholic Legacy
Ilha Pessoas Project : Decay In The Sky	A Bird's Eye View to Makuti	Buckets Build Better Bodies	Against All Aids

Maciej Dakowicz		12-Oct-2007 09:17
again a very nice gallery, makes me wanna go there, voted

Furachan		09-Oct-2007 08:46
There are two fascinating things on this page: 1) your excellent photographs and 2) Peter's hugely perceptive and nigh exhaustive commentary. Looking at these images through Peter's prism I would agree that there are echoes of other photogs we all admire (I see Nygus, Nerve, Prantik -sure!, Claude too) but whereas Peter sees a departure from your warmer output towards something cooler and more distant, I see more of a natural evolution from some of your recent VN work (with similar motivations no doubt ;o). Having said all that we are left with a most impressive whole with some true standouts for me being "Ghostriding", "The Players" yeah! and, funnily enough, "Playful Doggy", just to name a few. Outstanding work, superior observation of a complex, charming ans somewhat grasping place. Cool. Francis

Animesh Ray		30-Sep-2007 02:25
Some places and some associations release a wellspring of creativity. Mozambique was that for you it seems. I would be happy to make one photo such as these, but you do it frame after frame consistently. I see what Peter has in mind. My thoughts are that you reacted and you felt distant. A feeling of distance is a feeling. Its expression is valuable. Especially when the output is so staggeringly beautiful.

Peter Kozikowski		22-Sep-2007 18:43
Quite an accomplishment to produce this many quality images in such a short period of time, well done. Having said that I will stick to my previous opinion, for the most part this just doesn't feel like you, and from among our TE friends I would associate some of the image with Nygus, Maciek or even Evren (night shots). I have once called your images photopoetry(burmese fishermen), you seem to be the best when you show the best out of every human being in any situation (bw India portraits), your approach is gentle and caring, you treat every old woman as if she was your grandmother, and every child as if it was your own, caring, gentle, with dignity. The images in this gallery are not like that, you are more of a traveler/observer, the connection you have with your subjects, or should I have lack there of, or rather a negative rapport that you have with them (in your notes I often read money, materialism) is evident in this. Technically you are obviously spot on, with strong compositions, colours, textures, generally speaking the graphic structure of most images is the base, while some may prefer the images to have more soul with the graphism supporting the matter, however can't fault the form in any of them. The structure of the gallery as a whole is interesting, however I would like to ask if you had considered splitting it into two parts, I would be inclined to divide it into one being based on colour images (vibrant colours like in Welcom to Itha, Futebol, Knock Knock Knocking, Yellow house etc), which incidentally seem to have a common compositional theme, as well as playing with shadows, and the second being based on more muted colours and night images, which show the place in a different, more rugged way. The image starting the gallery is in the right place, so is the one ending it, in between plenty of interesting stuff as well. I would rate the gallery as quite good, with few fantastic photos, couple of duds and many good images. Fantastic: "Money, that's what I want", "Carry'em Quick", "Ghostriding", they are absolutely phenomenal, none of them feel like your because they ain't pretty, no dignity but pure ugliness, yet with connection, message and a very clear one. Ghostriding rely more on aesthetics than the other two, yet I would rate them equally. Really great stuff. Duds: :"High Kid Portrait", "Makuti Nights". I guess there is no surprise with the kid ;_), well it is what it is, however it doesn't fit the gallery at all, you look at the thumbnails and see this white thing right in the middle. Makuti Nights on the other hand seems a bit like a filler, almost like you didn't have enough night stuff and you wanted a balance, IMO this image doesn't have very strong composition and the gallery would survive without it. This Msiro is better than on TE. Images of kids seem a bit repetitive, not sure if we need water, golden, checkered and the one that is pleased to see you girl. Same IMO applies to "out of dark", and "three mini magus" All in all very good stuff, not as good as your bw portraits, then again it may have taken you 15 years to assemble that gallery, what you have done here in 15 days is quite remarkable, I wish I had these many good images from my Poland trip. Peter

Claude Renault		21-Sep-2007 12:04
une superbe galerie, une representation de la vie au quotidien.Une endroit que j'aimerai assez visiter apr�s avoir vu ceci.. Merci

Eric Le Parc		21-Sep-2007 09:50
Cette galerie donne un excellent aper�u du lieu! tu as su saisir la vie quotidienne � travers ces gestes, ces attitudes, ces gens qui vivent tout simplement! D�cidemment c'est la dimension qui manque � TE, celle du th�me d�velopp� sur plusieurs photos! Comme l'ont dit didier et Siddharta, elles m�riteraient d'�tre vues dans des expo ou des festival de photojournalisme! Excellent! Eric

delkoo		21-Sep-2007 08:24
dimanche j'�tais au festival international du photojournalisme � Perpignan, et certaines de tes photos m�riteraient d'y figurer.... wuthrich didier

Siddhartha Hajra		21-Sep-2007 06:19
Man you deserve to be working for NG...or something in those lines....these photographs are just FANTASTIC.....will have to come back(now have to run for university!)...this gallery you have Luko is terrific ...you just boggle the minds! :))

Prantik Mazumder		20-Sep-2007 22:17
Glad to see this gallery on Pbase. Was looking forward to it since you got back from Africa. I have to run now, but will be camping here soon. Prantik

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