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  BIOGRAPHY

 

1978-1982

 

1982-1992

 

In the 90s, shifted emphasis from photography to work with music. Completed two albums, featuring six of her own compositions, with the Afro-jazz band mhepo. Also performed with womens a capella group Big Sister, and taught music in several schools and institutions in Harare.

In 1998, received UN funding to compose and record a song designed to treat the symptoms of HIV-Aids through musical frequencies.

In 1999 moved to London.

1999 2006

  • Music teaching in London : keyboard, choir and saxophone in Brent, Kensington, Southwark
  • Administrative work for Jazz Services

Moving again with photography, getting digital:

New work in London, Hastings, South Africa and France

  • 2006: Images published in the book “Women by women: 50 Years' of Women's Photography in South Africa”, commissioned by the South African Ministry of Culture and published by Witwatersrand University

Independence Day, April 18th 1980, "protected village" Chiweshe Communal Lands

(from left) Emerson Munangagwa, Julius Nyerere and Robert Mugabe, Harare 1981

Biddy Partridge, at the launch of Mhepo's Album Mapapiro (Harare 2001). Find out more about Mhepo and listen to samples at their CD Baby page.

Snow, Tottenham 2000