in words and images
The easy answer to the question in the headline is fairly easy. It is because there are people who (still) believe in astrology, and there are people who (still) earn a living from telling stories about horoscopes – never mind scientific evidence that demonstrates that astrology is, actually, bunk. It’s all rather sad and pathetic,…
One of the people whom I follow on social media, and whose insights on all things tech I admire, does this thing every year where she answers a set of questions. See her blog post at Nafisa.co.za and follow her on Twitter @nafisa1 Since I am on a little break, I thought I would give…
I have long since given up reading the comments section of online publications. On the occasion that I do read what I have written – once it’s published I typically don’t care much – I am often gobsmacked by the comments, and the lack of understanding of how journalism works. While there is a general…
I am posting this edited version of a talk I gave, three years after it was published in the Mail & Guardian. It was not a paid assignment. I am placing it here as a type of community service/outreach/ The 1980s — represented in the exhibition Between States of Emergency: Photographers in Action 1985-1990 — were a…
I was a panelist on the 2020 Anton Lebowski Memorial Lecture hosted by Stellenbosch University on 12 September. This year’s theme was on Social Justice. Below is the video. Please leave comments if you wish.
A winter’s day in Verona, Italy. The part of this sequence that I like is the daring of the bird, and that I made the pictures with an iPhone 5.
Below is set of pictures I took in Istanbul in 2012.