Playing Dress Up with @ettttaaaaa
Some work from early 2025, for a while now i’ve been interested in salaula and how it’s been the anchor for the local styling community. These photographs were a fun test shoot for a project I’m currently working on.
Model: @ettttaaaaa
Direction and Photography: @maingailaaa
Main Styling: @ettttaaaaa
Styling and Shoot assistant: @areaxviii & @sifunisosifuniso_iii
MAINGAILA MUVUNDIKA | SOLO | MWAISENI MUKWAI
SHOW EXTENDED till 28th November 2025
“...A mixture of documented successes, humor, love and loss, these images lay bare various aspects of Zambian life and touch on how easily these moments can be lost to time for reasons more political than one would suspect. Muvundika artworks triumph at reminding the viewer of the fissures in the individual and collective visual archive owing to a fraught history of self-determination.” - Shilika Chisoko
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Open everyday except Sunday, Monday & Public Holidays
Our opening hours:
Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Free entry
📍 Everyday Lusaka Gallery, E. W Tarry Building, Shop #5 Kalundwe Road, off Cairo Road North End, between Jubilee Chemists and Master Glass
⭐️RUUM SPOTLIGHT⭐📸
#RuumSpotlight
Maingaila Muvundika 🇿🇲 (@maingailaaa ) is a portrait and fine art photographer from Zambia.
His work explores the concepts of labour, class dynamics, blackness, Africanness, and self-determination, examining how these interactions shape individual identity and influence societal organization.
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Moments from the opening of “Ichibukisho” an exhibition by Clarita Maria PB curated by Sana Ginwalla and Clarita Maria PB
“Where does memory exist in our homes? It may reside in a textile worn soft over time, in the rhythm of a familiar song, in the small choreography of a repeated daily gesture, or the faded edges of a damaged photograph. This question prompted an act of remembering for the hyper-hyphenated Zambian sitters of Clarita Maria’s lens. Filmed and interviewed in communion, Clarita explores the somatic and collective nature of memory as it is held in the body in her debut solo in Lusaka - Ichibukisho: The Act of Remembering.” - From the exhibition text by Sana Ginwalla
ICYMI, it’s on till the 27th of September.
We are open Tues - Fri 9-17hrs | Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday, Monday and public holidays closed.
Free Entry
🚗 Free parking available. Turn on the alley before Master Glass and take the first green gate on the left to access the parking lot
Photographs by Maingaila Muvundika @theoddfray
Super excited to share that i’m be part of The Inaugural Bakashimika International Photography Festival.
The Bakashimika International Photography Festival is an annual photography festival which celebrates the rich photographic community in Zambia and the Southern African region. The festival provides a platform for emerging southern African photographers, who tell new and innovative African stories through photography and lens-based art.
The festival closes this Wednesday and is open to the public from 11:00 - 19:00.
@bakashimika
#zambianartist #zambianphotographer
📸 Bakashimika 2025 – A Collective of Storytellers
A celebration of Contemporary African Photography .
Meet Maingalla Muvundika, a visionary conceptual artist from Lusaka whose art challenges perceptions and sparks important conversations! Through photography, digital collage, and printmaking, Maingalla crafts imaginative narratives that boldly question identity, truth, and societal roles.
Their impactful work has been showcased internationally, from collaborations with Cambridge University Libraries to exhibitions in Mumbai and Germany.
We're excited to shine a light on Maingalla's powerful artistic journey.
@maingailaaa@theoddfray
✨ Bakashimika (Bemba) “They will tell stories in the future.”
📍 Open Window University, Lusaka
📅 12–18 June 2025
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#Bakashimika2025 #AfricanPhotography #VisualStorytelling #LusakaEvents #comtemporaryphotography #BakashimikaFestival #PhotographyFestival2025 #ArtistFeature #ArtThatMatters #CreativeMinds #Zambia #NewArt
Last year, I was the recipient of a Stocksy (@stocksyunited ) grant, cleverly coined “Grantsy”.
The aim of Grantsy is to help contributors with the production of work focusing on content themes outlined in their Client Wishlists.
I’ve been wanting to shoot my friend Mukandi and her beautiful mom for quite some time and this felt like the right project and it met the Client’s Wishlist for black people over 50.
Thank you so much to @mickywiswedel and the Gransty team for help bringing this to life!
Credits
Photography & Direction: @maingailaaa
Styling: @theebacci
#zambianportraiture #africanportraiture #afriquette #amweeklyspotlight #localwolves
Happy to share that my works “Distance, 2022” and “Icunsu, 2023” were shown in “Through Southern Eyes: Narratives In Focus” by Bakashimika International Photography Festival in Sharjah, UAE as part of Xposure Festival.
A massive thank you to the wonderful team Bakashimika team (@fotokerstin1 , @edithchiliboy , @patrick_chilz )
