What would a corruption-free society look like, and how can each one of us help make this possible? This was the premise of the Augmented Reality exhibition on October 17th, 2022, by Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe, held at Cafe Miko in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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ENCOUNTERS: A PORTRAIT PROJECT

This project focuses on a simple moment of an audience meeting a captured subject. It's an invitation to slow down and get to find something of yourself in the image, because upon closer look a portrait contains a familiarity we are versed to recognize

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KHANGA HERITAGE

Over the past 100 years, khanga has evolved to become one of the central fabrics in the lives of East Africans. It carries memories and stories of the social, political, and economic life of the people of East Africa. Khanga emerged in the mid-19th century and its existence is linked to interactions between the East African coast and the wider world via the Indian Ocean. These interactions predate colonial occupation and can be traced back through maritime trade.

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HUMBODT LAB TANZANIA

"We were to be dealing with a set of objects that were well over 100 years old since their last intended usage and significantly, these objects were no longer in Tanzania but thousands of miles away in the bowels of State Museums Berlin's Ethnologisches Museum and until only recently "rediscovered""

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ABOUT TIME

This series of images is but simple glimpse of what is perhaps a seed for a new face of Taarab performance. One in which gender role in playing of instruments and singing is an identifying aspect of the time long gone.

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GRAVITY, EXPRESSION, CONTEXT

This series of images is but simple glimpse of what is perhaps a seed for a new face of Taarab performance. One in which gender role in playing of instruments and singing is an identifying aspect of the time long gone.

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