Tag: culture
Istanbul: Slices of the City
This city captured my imagination several years ago. I have returned often, the last time being the 2019 Istanbul Biennale, The Seventh Continent. I put together some photographs of Galata Bridge and the colours and flavours of this great city. There is so much more to this city, which I hope to explore in greater…
Wupperthal
Wupperthal (again) is close to my heart. I first went to the village in the mid-1980s, as detailed somewhere else on this website, and in my book, Too White to be Coloured Too Coloured to be Black a hybrid memoir. The area north of the Swartberg, beyond the Cederberg, where Wupperthal lies in the Tatra…
Malay Choir in Cape Town
Bread Sellers on the Streets of Istanbul
18 December 2012 – Among the “salt and pepper” of Istanbul are tradespeople on foot and ubiquitous street food vendors who are indispensable to this great city. From the city’s window basket system, which grew in popularity during the Covid Pandemic, to the street food sellers, the people of the city meet and interact through…