Takunda Chipara - Zimbabwean Photographer (AfricanSelfieStick)
Channel: Story Untold ZW🇿🇼
Date: 2023-01-11

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In episode 28 of Story Untold, we sat with Takunda Chipara [The African Selfie Stick] a Zimbabwean based photographer and visual artist.  Takunda is the founder of Augustine Parras Photography. The company is injecting a new perspective and method into the conventional marketing tools within Zimbabwe. They offer Photography, Videography, Social Media management services.

Born & raised in Harare, his photography began as a coping mechanism for my mental health & is inspired by the need to express his self visually in ways that he couldn't with words. In our episode we talked about;
- his educational background and his pivot from environmentalist to photographer,
- challenges of building a career as a photographer in Zimbabwe
- recovering from embarrassing mistakes and more...

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Gear;
Camera 1 (Samsung Galaxy Note 10) -
Camera 2 (Samsung Galaxy S10e) -
Microphone: Boya BY-M1DM -

Intro 00:00
Educational background and pivoting to photography 0:40
Using the tools you have 9:24
Working for exposure 12:35
Figuring out a new story to tell behind the lens 19:29
Things I look out for when choosing what to work on 26:21
The value of storytelling and capturing stories  36:21
Challenges of building a career in photography in Zim 37:54
Shifting mindsets 41:15
Getting over the fear of videography 55:12
Recovering from embarrassing mistakes 1:01:20
One of my big failures 1:05:57

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