© Alfredo Mueche, self-portrait
Alfredo Mueche
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"My pictures speak of ordinary day-to-day life in Mozambican society, and especially in Maputo, our cosmopolitan capital, which represents all the races, tribes, customs and practices of the country." Alfredo Mueche |
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Alfredo Mueche was born in 1954 in Gaza province, Chibuto district, in the village of Maivene in southern Mozambique. His father was a pastor in a local church and worked in the mines of the Rand, his mother a housewife. At the age of five he arrived in LM “to have a child-hood equal to that of all other poor kids of peasant origins”. He had his first contact with photography via a friend who loaned him a Yashica 6 x 6. In 1979 he started working for AIM, where he became a photographer in 1983, and he studied for two years under the Swedish 'cooperante' photographer Anders Nilsson. In 1984 he worked as photographer for 'Tempo', and in 1985 he participated in a training course in Frankfurt a.M., where he came under the influence of Associated Press photographer Max Simon. From 1986 to 1994 he worked as photographer at the AIM, where he eventually became photo editor. In October of 1994 he helped found 'Savana', and in 1995 he was taken on as photographer at 'Domingo', where he remains to the present. He lives and works in Maputo. | |