#about clube desportivo

A VILA ONDE EU NASCI

Apetece-me descrever, de ponta a ponta, o lugar onde passei parte da infância e da juventude. Começarei assim: A vila de índigo ficava atras do mar azul. A volta havia um campo de futebol e um bar. Chovia sempre. Havia uma rua larga de muitas áreas. Conhecia toda a gente da vila, a minha mãe, a incansável contadora de lindas histórias de que tanto admirava, até a minha mana que intendia muitas coisas que até hoje ela intendi quase todas as coisas ela é Atija Sulubito Juma. Gostava de contemplar o mar e nadar até fundo do mar de aguas azuis da cor do céu. Faz muito tempo que não visito aquele lugar, pelo que só me restam estas recordações.

José Eusébio Buonamisse

THE TOWN WHERE I WAS BORN
Let me describe, from beginning to end, the place where I spend part of my childhood and my youth. It starts like this: The village of indigo was behind the blue sea. At the back was a football field and a bar. It was always raining. The street was wide, with lots of sand. I knew everyone in the village, my mother, the tireless teller of beautiful stories whom I admired so much, my sister still remembers many of these things to this day, her name is Atija Sulubito Juma. I liked to contemplate the sea and swim to the seabed in blue waters the color of the sky. It’s a long time ago I visited this place, so there is only left to me these memories.

José Eusébio Buonamisse

I started making photographs at Aziza Amade Ali’s house, a building known on Ilha de Moçambique as Clube Desportivo, in 2005. I was on Ilha preparing a documentary project about daily life in Moçambique and was fascinated by the derelict modernist building at the contra costa marginal of the island. My first pictures - and those taken by Aziza with a small 35mm disposable camera - where made that year. These first photographs where the start of what would become “Clube Desportivo”.

Currently “Clube Desportivo” is divided into 3 chapters: the original Clube Desportivo,Vamos para Casa (in progress) and Marangonha/Tamarind (in progress). It will be an ongoing project for the foreseeable future, even now the Desportivo building has gone…

Maputo, 2014