Documentary Wedding Photography
Your wedding day is one of the most memorable occasions in your life. In my documentary photography I capture moments that story-book into beautifully customised albums designed by our professional team of designers. I shoot with high-end Nikon cameras using a wide range of lenses. Choose from a variety of packages. For more details contact our Studio _ +264 61 252800 or 0811246792 or tonyfigueira_iway.na.
I have had several group and solo exhibitions which have travelled from Windhoek to Swakopmund, Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lubango, Lisbon, Norway and Denmark. RURAL ARTS IN NAMIBIA and was an exhibition depicting Namibian rural art and was funded by IBIS, NORAD and Air Namibia and travelled, along with the artists works and my photographs to these Scandinavian countries. Unicef and the Swedish Embassy funded an exhibition entitled WOMEN A TRIBUTE. Held at Namibia's National Art Gallery, WOMEN served as a fundraiser for the Namibia Red Cross Society and its Ombili Day Care Centre as a means of improving the status of vulnerable children in the kindergarten in Katutura. At the time we raised some seventeen thousand Namibian dollars for the project.1989 saw my first solo exhibition with MINHA TERRA at the National Art Gallery. MINHA TERRA (MY LAND) depicted Namibian landscapes and people, and travelled to the Grahamstown Arts Festival and the Cape Town National Art Gallery. MINHA TERRA was followed by AGUA, LIBERDADE E TERRA at Artelier Kendzia a year and a half later, and outlined Namibias struggle for freedom and the power water, freedom and land have on our finding our own freedoms and sovereignty. During most of 2004 I was involved in the making of a film documentary by London-based Namibian filmmaker Richard Pakleppa on Angola entitled SAUDADES DE QUEM TE AMA. Depicting a longing for Angola as one united and stable country, SAUDADES took me to several provinces of Angola. In 2005 I collaborated with my daughter GINA FIGUEIRA who was then 12 years old, in a joint photographic exhibition at the National Art Gallery. Gina's abstract photography along with my mixed documentary and creative photography combined to form a wonderful rendition of youth and maturity in a digital medium that opens the doors to a whole new generation of creative minds and took digitial photography to a new level in Namibia. It was fabulous to exhibit with my young daughter.
Images and publications include Unicefs PEACE, RECONCILIATION and DEVELOPMENT, Namibia Briefs FOCUS ON TOURISM, Namibias WATER
(a decision makers guide), The Heritage Library of African Peoples Khoekhoe by Frederick Anozie, Ellen Ndeshis THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, Ibis PEOPLE ARE NOT WATER and a host of photo documentaries and essays in a variety of newspapers and magazines, from Africa Geographic, Luandas Talentos, Lisbons O PUBLICO, Namibias Insight, Sister Namibia and The Namibian Newspaper, and South Africas Mail & Guardian, Cape Times and Sunday Times. Calendars include ANGOLA NAMIBIA, ONE HEART TWO COUNTRIES (with photographer John Liebenberg), FNBs FACE OF NAMIBIA, ANGOLA LANDSCAPES (for which I won a Gecko Award for best photography), NAMIBIA 2008, ONGWEDIVA 2008 and OMINA 2008. In 2004 I started Studio 77, initially with colleague photographer Hans Rack, and then on my own at its current space in the Old Breweries Complex. Studio 77 is a commercial photographic studio with an image bank, gallery and events space, and has been a venue for a variety of my exhibitions, of which the most recent was in 2008 entitled THE THOUCH OF A THOUGHT. In 2008 I published a photographic book entitled THE COLOUR OF BLACK & WHITE, which won a Gecko Award for best photography. In January 2009 I exhibited at the FNCC (Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre) in Windhoek with an exhibition entitled LUZ DA TERRA (EARTH LIGHT). This exhibition went to Malawi. The exhibition has Namibia's grace, beauty and cultural diversity as central themes. In March 2009 I collaborated in a group exhibition entitled EMANGULUKO (INDEPENDENCE). Along with Papa Shikongeni, Imke Rust, Alpheus Mvula and dancer Stanely Mareka, we augmented our work with thoughts on Namibia's independence. The exhibition was opened by the Motor Vehicle Fund CEO Jerry Muadinohamba with special guest stalwart freedom fighter Andimba Toivo ya Toivo. In early December 2010, along with photographers Hans Rack and Paul van Schalkwyk, I was commissioned by Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) to participate in an exhibition in Cape Town for the FIFA World Cup draw, depicting Namibia as one of the destinations for football fans. December 2010 saw the launch of a book on Sam Nujoma's life in photographs with colleague and friend Per Sanden. Entitled IN THE LIGHT OF A FLASH, the book was compiled with Sam Nujoma as a collection of images capturing moments in his life.
As human beings we live life moment by moment by moment. its that simple. As photographers we capture the moments and freeze them in time. Some of the images in this book go back many years to the days of film camears before auto focus lenses and the revolution of digital photography. Some were shot more recently. Yet all simply capture moments
that depict life, and in particular, my life's journey on the foundations of
what I consider just the
best job in the world.
Photography is one of the biggest industries on the planet and the greatest invention of out time. Photographs are loved, treasured, kept and held
like a bunch of thoughts
in our hands.
I have thrown a whole
bunch of thoughts in the
air and they have landed
in the pages that follow.
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©Tony Figueira Photography/Studio 77 2011
