テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「'In my opinion the world has been explained to us using the same words and structures for too long'. - Cristina De Middel 'Afronauts' is a photographic series created by Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de Middel @lademiddel. Trained as a photojournalist, de Middel explores the ambiguous relationship between photography and truth. Her point of interest then, as now, was the ‘true stories people don’t believe and fake stories they do’. The Afronauts is based on the former: the true story of the Zambian space programme that took place in the early 1960s. 🚀 In 1964, shortly after the Republic of Zambia gained independence, a science teacher named Edward Makuka Nkoloso decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. With little funding, his visionary project was unsuccessful. De Middel's photography series imaginatively reenacts the event. The images are dream-like and highly stylised, with a playful quality that is echoed in the (often made-up) words of the work titles. She has described the tone of the project as a celebration of the hope and ambition of events that inspired it – not poking fun, but using the combination of a compelling but seemingly fantastical story together with a surreal aesthetic in order to try to 'push the audience into analysing the patterns of the stories we consume as real.' 📷 Cristina de Middel, Butungatanatulu 2012, Hamba 2012, Umeko 2012, Yinqaba 2012 and Butungabi 2012. Find de Middel's work on display inside #AWorldInCommon: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern.」9月23日 5時05分