AFRONAUTS of an impossible dream
"We're going to Mars! With a spicegirl, two cats and a missionary". We are in Zambia, newly independent in 1964. Edward Makuka Nkoloso, a school teacher, unveils his most secret ambition through a newspaper's article: he wants to take Zambia to conquer the space at the same strength of US and Soviet Union. Unfortunately Nkoloso' space program failed to receive financial aid and never "blasted-off"!! 50 years later, Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel , while searching for "impossible stories" on the net to find a good idea for a new project, came across this news. Afronauts , De Middel's amazing photo project and self published book, was born after this impossible dream. I caught images of this project flipping the pages of RearViewMirror magazine. The project was pointed to me by an artist friend who saw it at Fotografia Europea . Afronauts has been exhibited worldwide in New York, London, Lagos, Rome amon...