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“The Afronauts is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that exists only through images. I start with a real event that took place fifty years ago and rework the documents, adapting them to my own visual language.”
Belgian-Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel tells the story through photographs of the project led by the first African team to attempt a journey to the moon—that of a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka. This program, called "Afronauts" and launched in the early 1960s, shortly after Zambia gained independence, aimed to use an aluminum rocket to send a woman, two cats, and a missionary into space. However, due to a lack of sufficient funding, the project was quickly abandoned.
Size: 17 x 23 cm 38 pages)
Published by Éditions Bessard, 2014
Includes a limited-edition print signed by the artist (AP/300)
“The Afronauts is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that exists only through images. I start with a real event that took place fifty years ago and rework the documents, adapting them to my own visual language.”
Belgian-Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel tells the story through photographs of the project led by the first African team to attempt a journey to the moon—that of a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka. This program, called "Afronauts" and launched in the early 1960s, shortly after Zambia gained independence, aimed to use an aluminum rocket to send a woman, two cats, and a missionary into space. However, due to a lack of sufficient funding, the project was quickly abandoned.
Size: 17 x 23 cm 38 pages)
Published by Éditions Bessard, 2014
Includes a limited-edition print signed by the artist (AP/300)
