Ben Wilhelmi

Arusha, street photography

 

 

 

Indian ocean, aerial photography

 

 

 

 

Stonetown, random pictures

 

 

 

 

B/W film Masai portraits, Tanzania

 

 

 

All shot recently with a Rolleiflex 3.5F, a medium format beauty camera from 1961. Sometimes it feels good to show the millennials that there was life of various sorts before digital era, before selfies....

 

Floods in Tanzania these days, aerial shots

 

Katasunga plain in Katavi NP but that is a normal recurrence in the rainy seasons, except we are not really in a rainy season. The weathermen blame a dipole in the Indian ocean for the last weeks or months. At least the buffaloes are happy and safe.

 

More seriously farmers are losing their harvests and people have died, 44 in the last months, life must be hell down there.

 

Some rivers disappear.

 

 

An airstrip that nearly becomes an island could be of no use...Mbuyu airstrip, Selous reserve.

 

The biggest river in Tanzania, the Rufiji, has overflowed too, Selous.

 

 

 

Aerials over the reefs, Indian ocean, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

Does that fisherman realise the art patterns he is fishing over?

 

Quite psychedelic, isn't it?

The river across the river.

 

 

Bush portraits in Tanzania

One of my jobs in northern Tanzania allowed me to meddle in the very remote areas where foreign visitors or workers were rare, like these pictures around lake Natron or Sonjo valley many eyars ago. I gave my models, usually Maasai but along Sonjo a lesser know tribe, proper prints never money. I didn't want to spoil the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street pictures in Arusha, Tanzania

 

 

Those carts are still very common, this one particularly bulky. A stripped or a huge sofa can fit too!

 

Street vendors, everywhere, borderline annoying...

Another common scenery, women carrying about everything on their head.

 

 

 

 

Helmets ....baby steps!

 

 

Heavy rains in Tanzania, aerials

 

 

 

 

The great Ruaha river here flooded.

 

This section of the great Ruaha was nearly dry a few weeks ago, near Msembe airstrip.

 

Rufiji river in the Selous, the usual sandbanks are gone.

 

 

Mdonya river near Msembe, usually dry...

 

 

Fields in Rufiji delta.

 

Rufiji river near Mtemere airstrip.

 

This southern part of the Rufiji is most often dry...

 

 

 

Street photography in Stonetown, Zanzibar

 

 

Fashion gets interesting in Stonetown...