Photographer: Lamote, Carlo (1928-2017).
Title: untitled (Type Warundi).
Date: c. 1950-1959.
Country: Burundi.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 24,1 x 18,2 cm.
Condition: very good.
Reference: CLIV1124/1.
Provenance: Collection family Carlo Lamote.
Extra: typed note with identification in French and stamp on verso.
Congopresse 28.11/14.
Under the term Warundi are grouped all the populations inhabiting the territory of Burundi, which are divided into three categories: the Watutsi (Tutsi, Batutsi -15%), who form the ruling class; the Bahutu (Hutu - 85%), who constitute the majority of the population; and the Batwa (Twa <1%), who are pygmoid. The type represented here is a Watutsi (Tutsi, Batutsi).
Location: Kitega.
Photographer and cameraman Carlo Lamote (1928-2017) left for Congo in 1950 to work for the colonial information service. For ten years he travelled to every corner of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi to highlight the colonial achievements. Propaganda is the name of the game but he turned out to be an excellent photographer. Together with his colleague Henri Goldstein, Lamote has shaped our image of the Belgian Congo. Open any book of the 1950's in the colony and you will find their names under the photos. After independence, he set up his own film production company and news agency, with Visnew, ABC and CBS as regular customers. He was also the founder of Congovox, the news service of the Congolese state broadcaster.