Wherever you travel in Africa, in every city; in every poor township; and in every remote village, there are children playing football.

The raw, natural African talent for football is now world-renowned.  It starts in those poor townships and remote villages. It starts with the passion, the skills and the dreams of young African children.  The next international footballer stars from Africa are still in those villages and townships, kicking around footballs made from waste materials - old plastic supermarket bags tied with rubber strips cut from used car tyre inner-tubes.  They bounce just like the real thing. 

The photography in this exhibition is an attempt capture some of those skills, passion & dreams on film.  For a 'different' view, a wide angle panoramic landscape camera was used.

Series 1 in the exhibition features 'The Mubuyu Warriors', a children's football team in a poor village in the Zambezi Valley in Southern Zambia.  The Mubuyu ('Baobab') Village is a collection of mud-brick and grass-thatched huts in an area in which elephants regularly raid villagers' subsistence crops.

To view the photographs at large size and read the stories behind the pictures,
click on the images below to open an exhibition series, and then on the small images