Established in 2018, Everyday Lusaka is a photography platform and gallery that was developed to change conversations and perceptions of the city beyond the conventional photography found in Zambia. By exploring different formats, possibilities and uses of photography – mobile, amateur, digital, print, written, collaborative, archival or exhibitory – we work to catalyse this shift towards a more considered visual representation of the country.

External Group Exhibitions

2025

The Cairo Chapel, Zambian Pavillion for the inaugural SADC Biennale, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 2025

The Panorama Beyond The Colour Line, Co-curated by Prabhakar Kamble, Shamooda Amrelia and George Varley, Young Collector’s Program, India Art Fair, 2025

2024

Re-entangling the Visual Archive with Zambia Belonging, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2024

Zamstock Launch Exhibition, Lechwe Trust Gallery, Curated by Twana Robinson, 2024

Zambia Unveiled: 60 Years of a Nation with Zambia Belonging, Co-curated with Samba Yonga, National Archives of Zambia, 2024

Alick Phiri: Lusaka Street and Putting our resources to work: transforming archives through creative strategies with Zambia Belonging, 14th Rencontres de Bamako, Kuma , 2024

Havoc! with Zambia Belonging, Co-curated with Mupalo Mazala and Tsunga Mwila, Zamrock Museum, 2023

2023

An Exhibition That Nobody Will See | Zambia Belonging, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2023

Prospice! Kwacha, ‘The Studio Stool’ with Zambia Belonging, Inaugural Exhibition for the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Curated by Karen Reini, 2023

2022

The Studio Stool with Zambia Belonging, 13th Rencontres de Bamako, Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono | On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming and Heritage, Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, 202

2021

Everyday Lusaka: Outside In, Inaugural Exhibition for the Galerie Alliance Française de Lusaka, 2021

Zambia Belonging Inaugural Exhibition , Lusaka National Museum, 2021

2020

Home is Where the Art Is, Everyday Lusaka with Visule Kabunda, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2020

Contrasting Times, Everyday Lusaka with Visule Kabunda, Gallery XZibit, Lusaka, 2020

2019

Les Créateurs en Mouvement Festival, ‘Kunyumba’, Institut Suédois Paris, 2019

The Studio Stool, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, 2019

2018

Make a Mark, ‘Hole in The Wall’ with Everyday Lusaka, Inaugural Exhibition for 37D Gallery, Lusaka, 2018

Publications & Press

2025

The Times of India, "Chachacha Road to Colaba: Prabhubhai Vilas’s forgotten legacy"

"Lusaka Street" Photobook: Sana Ginwalla and Alick Phiri

Wallpaper* Magazine, "Alick Phiri’s black and white portraits capture the realities of post-colonial Zambia"

C&, "Installation View Alick Phiri and William Matlala: I’ll Be Your Mirror"

Stir World, "The Cairo Road sees Zambian artists taking representation into their own hands"

Funding and Fellowships

Collections-Connections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative Grant, University of Cambridge, 2024

CVC Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 2023

Un/Fund, 2022

Symposiums, Podcasts and Talks:

Documentaries

Heroes of Heritage, Nkwazi Magazine

Radio Features

DC Talk Radio, Capital FM, Lusaka Music Radio

Symposiums

SCOLMA: Through the Generations: Youth, Ageing and African Studies Collections, University of Oxford (2025)

“(Un)rooting Knowledge”, Sustaining The Otherwise: The Earth as a Wayfinder, (2024)

“The Impact of African Arts and Culture on Tourism”, Discover Zambia Masterclass, (2024)

‘Collage Comparison’ symposium, organised by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, University of Oxford (2023).

Talks

“Curating on the Continent”, Latitudes CuratorsLab (2024)

“The role of storytellers and art in driving advocacy and sparking social change”, MCI (2024)

“Provenance Research and Critical Thinking”, Zambian Fashion History Workshop, Access Bubble (2023)

“Millennials: Adulting as Cultural Leadership”, Artfluence Human Rights Festival at the University of Kwazulu-Nataal (2022)

“Curating As Practice”, Lusaka National Museum (2022)

“Women Influence Forum”, The Zambia Russian Centre (2021)

Seminars

“Zambia: Back into the Future. A Dialogue of Two Photographic Archives”, University of Cambridge (2023)

“Alternative Narratives Are Prosecutable”, Beyond Borders Webinar with National Arts Festival (2022).

“Curating Connections: Family Photographs, Memory and Identity”, Women's History Museum x Zambia Belonging: Curating Connections (2021)