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Moira Forjaz to launch her book “Ilhéus // Islanders” @ FFLC
1:54 CAT | 13 November 2018
Moira Forjaz to launch her book “Ilhéus // Islanders” @ FFLC
This book is a tribute to the special, vibrant, interesting and sweet people of the Island of Mozambique.
In Africa, when an old man dies a library burns, so says the Malian Amadou Hampatê Bâ. Nowhere is this as true as on the Island of Mozambique.
Centuries of history between the coral stone city and the macuti (huts covered with palm leaves) with so many stories that need to be told by people and not by historians.
"I fell in love with the Island on my first visit. It was soon after independence. An immense calm covered the island, now that the Portuguese colonialists had deserted, and independence promised a better future. The light did delight any photographer. I returned many times after that and published my first book of photographs, called 'Muipiti' in 1983. A short time later the civil war broke out between Frelimo and Renamo. The promised future was not going to happen. I could never visit the Island again safely". by Moira Forjaz
Moira was born in Matabele (Bulawayo), Zimbabwe in 1942. She graduated in Graphic Arts from the School of Arts and Design in Johannesburg.
She worked as a photojournalist in Southern Africa and since 1975, as a photographer and documentary filmmaker in Mozambique.
Moira worked in Mozambique as an assistant to Rui Guerra and José Fonseca e Costa. She held an individual photographic exhibition Island of Mozambique at the Paese Nuove Bookstore in Rome in 1979. From 1989 to 2001, se founded and directed the Moira Gallery in Lisbon.
Currently she is the Executive Director of music festivals in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) and Director of the Maputo International Music Festival.
As a photographer, Moira learned a lot from great South African photographers, such as Jurgen Schadaberg, David Goldblatt and Sam Haskins; as a filmmaker was influenced by Jean Rouch and Jean-Luc Godard.
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 28 2018 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto (FFLC), Av. Kim Il Sung no. 961, Maputo
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