It is with sadness that I have to report the sudden and tragic death last week of Teelo Ross, who was killed in a traffic accident in Lusaka.
Teelo designed and managed the production of the For Whom the Windfalls? report. He was a lover of life before he was an artist, and an artist before he was a graphic designer (he was one of Lusaka's finest graphic designers, as anyone who has seen his striking and cheeky billboard adverts for Chilanga Cement or The Post newspaper will know). That meant he was a perfectionist about how the report looked, and he did a beautiful job of making it come to life with his images and lay-out.
He also cared deeply about the subject of the report, having been born in Ndola. As we sat up late trying to make a ridiculously tight production deadline for the report (we failed, as anyone at the bookless book-launch in the Pamodzi will know!), Teelo shared with me his anger at the current state of the places he knew when he was younger, and the conditions in which his friends on the Copperbelt lived and worked.
I will miss him. A tribute site to Teelo on the Facebook website is here.
Alastair
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