I was interviewed by SmileFM about my Daily Maverick column of 30 April 2025. Click on the photograph for direct link to the column, and listen to SoundCloud recording below.
SAFM Interview
I was interviewed yesterday by Nqaba Mabece of SAFM about my Daily Maverick column about the challenges that face journalists and journalism. Below is a screenshot of the column. Full column can be read, here.
Architecture: Malaysia’s Mosque of Steel
Over the last days of my most recent visit to Malaysia, I made an unscheduled stop at the Steel Mosque, the colloquial name for the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque, in Putrajaya, the administrative capital of Malaysia. I carried only the iPhone, and thought it best to be discreet. I made a few pictures. See,…
Paved Paradise
Armstrong Williams adds MAGAvoice to Tiresome Conversation
The arc of historical capitalism is bending down, way down from its dizzying heights of its golden age, between 1945 and the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, when liberal capitalism stood triumphant, there was a general sense among people who shared ideological solidarities and affiliations, that the war was over and the good people…
Calls for Appeasement and Status Quo Patriotism are growing louder and bolder
President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have accepted the dismissal of Ebrahim Rasool without question, and seems to suffers from the same fear of Trump affliction that has debilitated CEOs in the USA, and driven them into what has been described cowardice. The dismissal of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, from Washington is brightening the light…
Chickens in Peril
I ventured into Siti Khadijah Market in Kota Bharu, and emerged with a bad (airborne) virus that laid me down for a week, and a set of pictures made with the mirrorless Nikon Z6ii. It felt good to be behind viewfinder, again. Some way to go, yet, with the “post-production” options, filters and frames. I…
Seeing what may come from a photograph
This is a very ordinary, everyday scene in a building.
Back at the muddy confluence of the Klang and Gombak
The picture, above, is of a view (and angle) of the city of Kuala Lumpur I had not seen before…. The skyline represents the growth of the city over the past 34 years since my first visit. There was a time, in the late 1990s, when the KL tower and the Petronas Twin Towers were…
The image in support of text
One of the issues I am currently writing about, and that I will include in the current project, is the way that parts of the cities, of the built-environment, in Kota Bharu and Kuala Terengganu, are dying, or left to decay. This death and dying, and what is probably wilful neglect, or considered unimportant, is…