Gulda El Magambo is both a photographer and filmmaker, but he also works with theater, dramaturgical writing, music and comic books.
His photographic projects reflect a relentless commitment to a society in crisis, touching on pressing social issues like child labor in mines and the preservation of the ethnographic heritage.
Gulda El Magambo, Documenting Manono, 2018 - ongoing
Gulda joined Georges Senga twice on his research trip to assist in the making of the series Le Vide / The Void in Likes and Kolwezi. He joined on three subsequent research trips to Manono in D.R. Congo as part of the On-Trade-Off project where he filmed and photographed the changing city, the mining area and the living conditions of the people for the (Re)source collective database.
Gulda El Magambo (based in Lubumbashi, DRC): Gulda is both a photographer and filmmaker, but he also works with theater, dramaturgical writing, music and comic books. He was part of the ‘Vicanos Club’, a structure to promote audiovisual and contemporary art in Lubumbashi since the ’90. His photographic achievements reflect a relentless commitment to a society in crisis, touching on pressing social issues like child labor in mines and the preservation of the ethnographic heritage.