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Sunday, September 8, 2013

South Africa: Sculptural Zulu Girls


In 1957, while crossing Africa lengthwise on a Vespa scooter, I came across those two sculptural young Zulu women on their way to the enthronization of a new Zulu king. I was using a Belgian Gevaert film. My battered camera had seen Saharan sandstorms and was scratching my film. I was still a few years away from starting to live from my photography.
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En 1957, traversant l’Afrique à Vespa de Tanger au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, j’ai photographié ces deux jeunes filles zoulous en chemin pour l’intronisation d’un nouveau roi zoulou. J’employais un film Gevaert, produit en Belgique. Ma caméra, qui avait vu des tempêtes de sable au Sahara griffait mes films. Mais je ne vivais pas encore de ma photographie.