Vimbai and Tinotender

On the 17th of May 1960, the Queen Mother officially opened the Lake Kariba dam wall. It was an engineering feat compared to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza. The white man in Africa conquering the seemingly wild Zambezi river and forever altering the landscape in our image. This portrait, taken over a period of three years aims to explore the cultural and social history of Lake Kariba, the largest man-made lake in the world, and the various industries that exist because of its creation and subsequent flooding of the Zambezi Valley 60 years ago.