A Playful Kind of Blue
Let artist Winifrid Luena take you back to in time with his photographs of Tanzanian school children
Portrait of artist Winifrid LuenaDesign Indaba
Meet Winifrid - Tanzania's photographer of everyday life
Winifrid Luena is a Tanzanian visual artist working across various mediums including photography, video art, digital design and illustration. He is interested in psychological and sociological application of art and uses it to explore different themes related with individuality, identity and norm of everyday life from people and places around him.
Goal (2020) by Winifrid LuenaDesign Indaba
The vibrant blue of playtime
For his work Goal, Winifrid photographed young Tanzanian schoolchildren playing a soccer during their breaktime.
How does a breaktime soccer match happen?
As Winifrid explains "the match happens when student brings a homemade ball to school and his friends pick a rival class to play against.
No coach, no referee, no teacher involved!
Remembering his own days of playing like this Winfred stats "just like that we played together with just the aim of having fun, getting to know each other and forming friendships among us."
It's more than just play
For Winifred the deep blue of the children's uniforms represent not only the public school children themselves but Dar es Salaam and the whole of Tanzania as well.
Winifrid Luena discusses his photography Goal and takes us through a day in Dar es Salaam (2020) by Winifrid LuenaDesign Indaba
What does the color blue mean to Winifrid?
Watch as Winifrid takes us through his process of making Goal and explains and explains why blue is the color of Tanzania
Goal (2020) by Winifrid LuenaDesign Indaba
What does Winifrid think it means to be African?
"To be African means to redefine the narrative that underpins African history.
It is time that we use the power of storytelling to create and highlight the narratives that empower and move us forward together as Africans."
