Thursday, 3 October 2013
Commercial wheat harvest, Chisamba, Zambia
Although Charles Livingstone was required to photograph ‘characteristic specimens of different tribes’, this was difficult due to lengthy exposure times and the lack of familiarity local people had with being photographed. This may also explain why, in early expeditions, the expeditionary team was not photographed; every picture had to be posed for several minutes. ~ Peter Langmead in Postcards from Zambia
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