{"product_id":"maputo-diary","title":"Maputo Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eI grew up in Mozambique. My parents moved there just after the country won its independence. I would stand on the roof of my kindergarten with fists pointing to the sky shouting: “long live the liberation party” and “down with the armed bandits”. Already then the civil war was catching on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI spent my childhood roaming the streets with my friends; there were no cars because fuel was impossible to get. I was just as good a dancer as any of the other kids, but I didn’t belong for real. I didn’t have a family member that had been killed in the civil war. My parents had chosen to come; and they could chose to leave again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a teenager I moved back to Denmark with my father. My mother and youngest sister stayed in Maputo. Since then, I’ve spent my summers in Maputo. That was where I took my first photo course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the year 2000 I met two young transwomen in the street. I spent the next two weeks with Ingrácia and Antonieta and their intimate circle of friends. I scratched the surface of their lives; As Manas – the Sisters, they called themselves. Our time together became a photo series; and without me knowing it at the time, it was also the start of Maputo Diary. Over the years I returned to photograph the Sisters. And our friendship grew and became intertwined with my own family and other friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaputo Diary is my diary. Since its vulnerable and innocent beginning, it has become a monument over life lived between different cultures, friendship and the friends we lost along the years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disko Bay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52294774063386,"sku":"9788797527450","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/3793\/files\/maputodiary.jpg?v=1780055398","url":"https:\/\/villagebooks.co\/products\/maputo-diary","provider":"Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}