LUSAKA STREET delete reflecting on the passing of

reflecting on the passing of his parents

always moving along a road called history

an astonishing 56-page feature of his photographs shot for Camera Mainichi

author and critic

I like how my neighbor’s terracotta roof foregrounds the silhouettes of skyscrapers miles off and how the dark middle distance slopes towards a façade of pinpoint lights at night

LUSAKA STREET delete reflecting on the passing ofLusaka Street is an exploration of Zambias photographic past through the eyes of Zambian image maker Alick Phiri. One of the few surviving black photographers that had access to the medium from the 1960s through the 1990s in Lusaka a time when the use of the camera was restricted in the country Phiri was trained at Lusakas Photo Art Studios before opening his own studio in Kanyama, making photography an integral part of his life. His unseen before