About

Even though I am not (yet) an artist by profession, I am an artist at heart. I have been involved in one form of visual art or the other since childhood: school drama, wood carving, school choir, and theatre. Now it’s photography. I started doing photography in ernest in 2009 and an exhibit at MGH Illuminations in 2011 marked the official showing of my work.

I have always been interested in photography but when I was young I did not have the money to buy a camera. As an adult, life’s demands have always forced me to put photography aside. But I have always longed to pick it up -Perhaps because the importance of photography had been impacted on me at an early age. As a youngster I used to enjoy looking at my family’s photos. I appreciated looking at photos of my father when he was a young man. I marveled at the places he had been to and the friends he had. I felt that ‘knowing’ his ‘background’ helped me understand and appreciate him more. Unfortunately, we lost all but one photo -one of my father’s portraits, along with all of the family’s treasures and livelihood, when our home was destroyed during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. My father’s lone portrait photo has become one of my treasured possessions.

It is then that I have come to appreciate the importance of photographs. I regard photography as an important median that links us to the past, present, and future. I believe that art, just like landscape scenes, have both a physical and spiritual effect. It is an inescapable truth that the landscape of our environment dictates and defines the activities we engage in, as well as our attitude and feeling. Keeping with this philosophy, I seek to create photographs that emphasize the daily relationships of humanity to the world we live in, as well as our dreams and aspirations. In landscape scenes we can read the universal elements and emotions of everyday life.