(ENG) Zacarias Chemane - Comic and painter from Mozambique

Mozambican comic artist and painter - Zacarias Chemane, talk about his visit to Nampula project. He was there to collect material on MSF & planetary health and draw a comic reportage which was presented in the Fumetto comic Festival in Lucern, Switzerland.

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Zacarias Chemane, comic artist and painter comes back from a visit to MSF project in Nampula

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB190246

Date taken / Date Recorded 22/03/2024 2:38 PM

Country Mozambique

Photographer / videographer / producer Lourino Pelembe

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m55s

Maximum Size 720px × 1280px 188.83 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist 4 questions to Zacarias Chemane, illustrator and comic artist from Mozambique.

Where do you get inspiration for your work?
Of course, I find inspiration in my daily life.
When I'm given a job, the first thing I do is to draw spontaneously.
Only then, I look for references to contextualize my work.
I've done work for contexts in Burkina Faso, East Timor, Angola and Ethiopia.
If I don’t have references, I look for inspiration in movies, such as documentaries, or also in photographs.

2. What can you tell us about your field visit with MSF?
I went to the field to produce this comic about climate change and its consequences on health. The goal was to contribute to raising awareness about this subject and to show that the situation is serious.
I wanted to talk to a specialist and also to see the impact of climate change in the community in which MSF is working.
What impacted me there was the young and energized team working for the community.
I saw that it's not just a matter of health, but also a matter of humanity. Of being willing to drive change...

3. How do you perceive climate change in your country?
The impact of climate change in Mozambique is very serious. Sometimes it's too hot. Or it rains too much, causing flooding that damages the roads, that damages the buildings. There are also excessive winds and sudden temperature changes. Of course, this is impacting my life as well.

Location pin : Beira, Mozambique
Cyclone Idai, 2018

4. What do you hope to achieve with this work?
Now, what I want is for this comic is to be published here, in Mozambique, where I am.
Especially for the communities where the stories are coming from. I would love to go back there to show the results to the communities in Nampula.
Also, I’d love to see this comic contributing, as an element, as an instrument, to the effort MSF is making to promote health in Nampula.