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…
Author: ilagardien
Anton Lubowski Memorial Lecture
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.
Verona Comet
Streets of Verona
Birdie Courageous
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.
On the streets of Istanbul
Below is set of pictures I took in Istanbul in 2012.
Old Photographs: Movement on Rockey Street
Old Photographs: Nagtroep
Old Photographs: Nothing or Legs
Among the old photographs that I have on storage drives, especially those old water damaged negs I scanned, I sometimes find gems, like the one below. To make this picture I risked life and limb. I stood in the middle of Market Street, Johannesburg, on one of the white lines, in traffic, to get this…
Jacob Morake’s Last Fight
8 August 2020. I first posted these pictures and text on my website more than a decade ago. (I think in 2009). I was wonderfully surprised to find it that I had a backup on an old storage drive. Here, again, it is. Thanks to Perfect Hlongwane for reminding me about Jacob Morake, which forced…