{"product_id":"the-afronauts-cristina-de-middel","title":"Cristina de Middel – The Afronauts (First Edition, 2012)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"831\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"301\"\u003eThe Afronauts\u003c\/em\u003e is a seminal first edition photobook by Spanish artist Cristina de Middel, self‑published in Madrid in 2012. The book reimagines the real‑life 1960s Zambian space program initiated by Edward Makuka, blending documentary source material with staged, speculative photography to question and undo conventional narratives about Africa. 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