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Born in Zimbabwe,1987 Cimplicio Honeyboy Mandishe (Cimplicio Honeyboy Mandishe Gallery Born in 1987, Cimplicio H Mandishe was fascinated by photography from his youth and began taking pictures at the age of 14 when he was given his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film. In 2001Cimplicio sold his first photograph and at the time had no idea that professional photography even existed. Photojournalism was at its very infancy. Cimplicio began his free-lance career for Pacific and Atlantic Photos' Berlin office in 2005. It was taken over by Associated Press in 1931. "Photojournalism had just started," Cimplicio has remarked "and I knew very little about photography. It was an adventure, and I was always amazed when anything came out." Using cumbersome equipment with tripods and glass plate negatives, Cimplicio produced many photos on assignment of musicians, writers, and royalty. .Cimplicio was looking for the telling detail to place in the foreground of his image. "Suddenly," he said, "I saw a lovely young society girl sitting next to an empty box. From that box I took another picture, with the girl in the foreground. For years and years this has been one of my prize photographs. Without the girl I would not have had a memorable picture." The photographer, skilled professional that he was, "always behaved like an amateur with little equipment." The key to Cimplicio's genius lay in his humility and humanity. "My style hasn't changed much in all these twenty-five years," he explained. "I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People often don't take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss. When I married in 2011, my wife asked me. 'But where are your real cameras?' I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, 'Keep it simple..