Vernacular // Page 17 // Markus Spring Photography

Booze Cruise Platform

The official name for a booze cruise is sunset cruise, but as all drinks are included…

Feeding the Falls

While the last image of the “Boiling Pot” is from the lower end of the Victoria Falls, this is the upper end, a mere 100ft away from the cliff.

Boiling Pot and Livingstone Bridge

Mobile phone companies are the replacements of banks for the majority of the not so well-off Zambians. It is completely hassle-free and cheap to send money from phone to phone, and this even works from Europe to Zambia.

It’s all Hand to Mouth VII

If you are born in such a place, you will grow up poor and live a poor and short adult life.

It’s all Hand to Mouth VI

It’s all Hand to Mouth V

It’s all Hand to Mouth IV

It’s all Hand to Mouth III

It’s all Hand to Mouth II

It’s all hand to mouth

2 US$/day worker in a urban gravel pit. With millie meal (maize flour) costing 0.2 US$/kg when I was there, such a job can keep you barely alive, as long as your kids don’t need anything for school and you never fall sick.