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Darius Mutamba

Darius Mutamba is a controversial conceptual visual artist from Zimbabwe who studied at the Chinhoyi University of Technology under the department of Creative Art and Design. “I am practicing and broadening my knowledge and skills as a creative photographer and I try to explore photography at the level where pictures cease to be just images but a comprehensive narrative in story telling” Mutamba says.

Darius,s first major event was in 2014 when   ran a solo documentary photography exhibition titled “Silent Voices” at the Harare International Festival of The Arts (HIFA 2014) and I took part in the Harare Block Art party (HIFA 2015) at the First Floor Gallery Harare. Since then Darius has been on the rise, and has curated controversial first of its kind nude art exhibitions in Harare.

In 2016 he has worked with Talent House to create art works for British Musician Laura Mvula’s campaign for her LP The dreaming Room.

Darius was born on the 27th of December 1991 in a family of two. And is the son Of Zimbabwe’s veteran Journalist Shepherd Mutamba former publicist to international superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi and author of Tuku Backstage.

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