Category: Photography
Tik Tok…
As the day of my departure approaches, I am still waiting for the final bureaucratic things to fall into place. All that I know, for sure, is that I have a flight to Western Asia on 6 July, but that I still have not received my passport back from an embassy. I would, normally, not…
Signing off on the book
In the next t4 hours I will be signing off on the on the book, a hybrid of memoir, commentary and analysis of South Africa’s contemporary history and persistent racial ordering. It should go on sale by 20 March.
First Roadblock: National State of Emergency 1986
Picture Gallery: Along the river in Melaka
The Cruelty of Deliberate Forgetting
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…
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.
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…