Photo album on Uganda.

May 02, 2002

THE first bilingual photo album on Uganda Eye of the Storm, will be launched on Tuesday May 7 at Alliance Francaise, National Theatre.

By Vision ReporterTHE first bilingual photo album on Uganda Eye of the Storm, will be launched on Tuesday May 7 at Alliance Francaise, National Theatre.Presented for the very first time in Uganda, the book known as L’oeil du Cyclone’ in French, is a showcase of the brilliant photographs of David Pluth from Canada and Pierre-Francois Didek from France with bilingual (French and English) commentaries by Nicholas Michel and poetry in English (also translated in French) by Susan Kiguli.Eye of the Storm, a photographic journey across Uganda, has fascinating scenes such as the Murchison Falls, the mountain gorillas of Bwindi and fishermen in the early morning on Lake Victoria. All these pictures reflect Uganda’s beautiful environment.The authors chose to portray the ‘real’ Uganda in all its magnificence, showing ordinary people going about their daily lives.This book also wants to reflect Uganda’s daily struggles. The pages show pictures of AIDS orphans, refugee women and other people.The book is divided into nine chapters ranging from Promenade to The Storm ending with Hands of men and women and Daily Life.For everyone who has lived or travelled in the area, it will provide an irresistible moment of their time spent in Uganda. For those who have never visited the country, it will open up a window into this fascinating and fast-developing part of Africa.This book has been published with the financial support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is edited in a hard-copy version and will be on sale at Alliance Francaise for a fee of sh55,000. David Pluth now lives in Switzerland and works in different places in Africa, Europe and Asia as a photographer. David holds a master’s degree in environmental design from the University of Calgary. His other books include; Uganda Rwenzori, A Range of Images, Kilimanjaro, The Great White Mountain of Africa and the yet to be published Karamoja! Uganda’s Warrior Land.Susan Kiguli has been writing poetry since she was a school girl and her first volume of poetry, The African Saga, won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award 1999. After working as a lecturer in the department of Literature at Makerere University, she is now studying at Leeds University.Born in France, Pierre-Francois Didek spent his childhood and teenage years between Africa and Italy. After getting degrees in cinematography, he settled down in Uganda as a freelance photographer for six years. He now directs documentaries for television in Paris.Ends

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