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Standing at the edge of the Angolan Plateau (the Planalto) that rises almost vertically aprox 1000m and reaching (at this point) about 2300m above see level. Like in the movie "UP!", this place creates its own climate and some times all 4 seasons can alternate in the same day. This photo was taken at sunset, a storm had passed by and a new one was approaching. The temperature was +14 degrees Centigrade, a cool summer day in the heart of Africa ;)
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40 ton three axle diesel-hydraulic locomotive supplied by North British to the 3ft 6in gauge Benguela Railway, Angola. Powered by a 425hp Paxman engine
Press "L". A fisherman preparing his nets with beer in Cabina, in front of his canoe-like boat made from a log. It's an enclave of Angola between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Congo Republic (CR).
Pentax 67, Takumar 35mm f4.5, Kodak T-Max 400 new (400TMY-2), drumscanned.
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My first assignment as a FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER was in SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO 2010 . I was sent by the MACAO MAGAZINE to photograph the MACAO PAVILION. This photo has been published in the MACAO MAGAZINE in the July 2010 4th issue.
Angola/Democratic Republic of Congo
Kongo peoples
18th century
Brass, H. 3 1/2 in.
Crosses and other Christian emblems had been created in Central Africa since the late fifteenth century, when Christianity was widely adopted within the Kongo kingdom. A powerful and wealthy state that at its height spanned portions of modern-day Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and the Congo Republic, the Kongo kingdom had largely disintegrated by the late seventeenth century.
In 1704, a Kongo visionary known as Dona Beatriz launched Antonianism, a movement that called for the reform of the local church as a means of reconstituting the Kongo state. Saint Anthony was the adopted patron of the movement, and his image was widely incorporated into religious objects and personal items designed to protect. Here, a cast brass figure of Saint Anthony has been embedded in the wooden framework of a cross. Scholars have emphasized that the Christian cross was easily integrated into Kongo religious practices, as the cross had been a powerful indigenous emblem of spirituality prior to contact with the West. According to the Kongo conception of human experience, the cross is at once a metaphor for the cosmos and a diagram for the trajectory of a human life as it traverses the realms of the living and the dead.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Charge d'Affaires Heather Merritt at Embassy Luanda listen to comments by a member of Angolan civil society during a meeting with them in Luanda on May 4, 2014. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]