Africa through my lens - PHOTOS and MEMORIES

Hello dear Steemers,

This is Alessandro. I work with Elena on films and documentaries. Follow us! See the previous post! (Actually..how can I tag the previous post here?help!)
We want to take you for a long journey to the Balkans with our on the road documentary series. If you like extreme travel adventures and some charismatic people to meet on the way, then stay with us.

Now, I want to go for a different journey. A quiver runs through my fingers when I think of all the stories I would like to share with you. It's an overwhelming feeling but luckily my hands start writing, anticipating my thoughts. Steemit gives me a great chance to write, revisit the past and fish into my memory, for whom this may concern! I will be true to myself and tell you some life anecdotes. If you like the deal, then chip in, comment, upvote, give me a piece of life advice, suggest me new destinations or teach me how to take better photos!

I have lived life quite fast in the last four years, taking flights as thought they were buses, moving from my base in London to Germany, Italy, East Africa, Scandinavia, the Balkans and wherever there was a story to be told with the camera. I haven't questioned much what I have been doing because doing it is out of question - the only way to go. Yes, I have truly, wholeheartedly enjoyed every choice I have made.

But now I have a problem: I have collected way more experiences than I can remember!

Today, I want to show you Africa through my lens, in an effort to bring memories to life again. This time it's gonna be photos, although they are not my cup of tea, usually. I am too much in love with the motion pictures.

'Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second'
Jean-Luc Godard

Nevertheless, I had a Canon 5D mark III and a 50mm lens with me and I couldn't help it. East Africa is breathtaking. And if you take your time to explore it for real, you won't be the same person ever again. As far as I am concerned, it changed my life. And here are some reasons why.

1. People
This is a crossroad in Kampala, Uganda. That's when I realised how chaos can have an order. Life streams through each street with some accidents and yet relentless.

2. Contradictions
Zanzibar, Tanzania. Heaven on earth. Luxurious hotels are managed by Europeans or Americans whereas the local majority are Muslims and when we were there they wouldn't even sell us water as it was Ramadan.

3. Creativity
It's true. When you don't have much, that's when you get creative. Senses are alert. Colors are brighter then you will ever see them. Things smell and taste like it's your first time. Here you move with rythm because music is with you from birth. We all come from here.

4. Pride
An African lady in Kisumu (Kenya) once told me: 'you have clocks but we have time'. The rythm of things there is really of another kind.

5. The lesson
When death is around the corner and not hidden, not taboo, then you are a bit closer to 'the reality of life'. I was in a 3 hours ride off road on a bus in the desert. I was squeezed in the middle - standing - when a woman puked all over the place and there was no shame or disgust or fake compassion whatsoever. We are all humans after all.