Description Making skilled use of both documentary and conceptual practices, Cristina de Middel investigates photographyâs ambiguous relationship to truth. While working as a photojournalist, de Middelâs passion for finding unconventional angles led to the acclaimed series The Afronauts. The project explores the story of an unsuccessful
Thirdedition of photobook The Afronauts by Cristina de Middel.
Mbulumbubluâ, Cristina de Middel, 2012 on display at Tate Modern. This is one of thirty-seven colour photographs in Christina de Middelâs series The Afronauts 2012 (Tate P82235 â P82271).Each one depicts the artistâs imagined version of events surrounding the Zambian Space Program of the 1960s.
Otherscreate their own bridges between fiction and reality, like Cristina de Middel documenting the 1960s Zambian plan to send astronauts to the moon, giving imagery to a story that lacks it.
Cristinade Middel (born 1975) is a Spanish documentary photographer and artist living and working in Uruapan, Mexico.. De Middel self-published The Afronauts in 2012, a photobook about the short-lived Zambian space program in Southern Africa. According to Magnum Photos, the book "explored the history of a failed space program
PhotographerCristina De Middel (1975, Spain) chose as the starting point for her project The Afronauts a little-known episode from Zambia's history. This was a space programme started by an educator which suddenly entered Zambia in the space race with the
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