Dana and Abby
Chantel and Veranique
Mike and Chris
Anne and Linda
Marc and James
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Ashleigh
Fashion shoot taken in my garage at Bergendal.
Convenient having a model as a digsmate :)
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
2010 Student Focus Winner
- VILLA EPECUEN - Victoria Ines Dobaño & Rodrigo Terrén Toro Escuela Argentina de Fotografía, Argentina
Do we have the power to control nature?
We have believed it for thousands of years. Epecuen used to be a turistic Villa with a saltwater lake, sought for its healing properties, ancient sacred place of the original peoples of Argentina. In 1985 it was completely flooded. The result is devastating, quite, disturbing.
The power of water is overwhelming, he took up the dead. The spoils of a typical village in the province of Buenos Aires appeals to other disasters like Katrina, tsunamis, earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, petrolum at the Gulf of Mexico, many more…Does power of nature escape to the power of men or would have been possible to mitigate negative consequences?
"POWER"
For the 2010 Student Focus we were asked to produce a series of images which explored the notion of ‘Power' in our own countries.
Lindsey and I worked on the concept of the "The Domestic Employer and Employee"
During the apartheid era in South Africa, domestic workers and gardeners or maids/servants and garden boys as they were commonly referred to, possessed few rights under the power structure of the government as well as their employers. They were, more often than not, outsiders in a white person’s home and were treated accordingly. The allocation of separate cutlery and crockery, second-rate meals, outside bathrooms and rest areas, and the assignment of English names were all testament to an accepted form of conduct.
With the fall of the apartheid regime, the domestic worker/gardener and employer structure still exists, but has come to differ in terms of the nature of this relationship. Despite such damaging entrenched values, which stem not only, from the apartheid period but also from colonialism, many white South Africans have begun to change their moral code of behavior. Power structures in this regard have seen a positive shift - a result of changing attitudes of all South Africans toward one another and of improved government policies.
Whilst the employer/employee relationship in a domestic environment is a global circumstance, this series of images attempts to exemplify a changing phenomenon, which is a particular South African experience. Notwithstanding the fact that prejudicial attitudes do indeed still exist, these images claim to substantiate an undeniable adjustment of perspective, which can only but have an encouraging influence on the relationships of power.
Terry and Vicky (Nomsa)
Delsya, Victoria (Zikohona) and Jack
Nick, Mavis (Nomthunzi) and Campbell
John(Jongikhaya) and Nicky
Mrs Love and Jolene
Sylvester (Zola), Chloe and George (Ayanda)
Lindsey and I worked on the concept of the "The Domestic Employer and Employee"
During the apartheid era in South Africa, domestic workers and gardeners or maids/servants and garden boys as they were commonly referred to, possessed few rights under the power structure of the government as well as their employers. They were, more often than not, outsiders in a white person’s home and were treated accordingly. The allocation of separate cutlery and crockery, second-rate meals, outside bathrooms and rest areas, and the assignment of English names were all testament to an accepted form of conduct.
With the fall of the apartheid regime, the domestic worker/gardener and employer structure still exists, but has come to differ in terms of the nature of this relationship. Despite such damaging entrenched values, which stem not only, from the apartheid period but also from colonialism, many white South Africans have begun to change their moral code of behavior. Power structures in this regard have seen a positive shift - a result of changing attitudes of all South Africans toward one another and of improved government policies.
Whilst the employer/employee relationship in a domestic environment is a global circumstance, this series of images attempts to exemplify a changing phenomenon, which is a particular South African experience. Notwithstanding the fact that prejudicial attitudes do indeed still exist, these images claim to substantiate an undeniable adjustment of perspective, which can only but have an encouraging influence on the relationships of power.
Terry and Vicky (Nomsa) 
Delsya, Victoria (Zikohona) and Jack
Nick, Mavis (Nomthunzi) and Campbell
John(Jongikhaya) and Nicky
Mrs Love and Jolene
Sylvester (Zola), Chloe and George (Ayanda)
Foux doux fa fa
In April this year, Lindsey Nel and I, along with our legendary Lecturer Queen Jackie Murray herself set off on an adventure abroad.
Having won the Africa/Middle East leg of the Competition, we were flown to Cannes to meet up with 10 other students from around the world, to take part in another competition to find the student focus winners.
Apart from exploring the charming seaside town, tasting the local cuisine and vino, conversing in broken french/afrikaans, we took part in the Sony World Photography Festival. We got to meet some of the greatest influential Photographers of our time, attended industry talks and workshops, and had the pleasure in going to the grand ceremony in the Palais, gala dinner and ventured to the infamous after party at DA DA DA.
Here is a tiny glimpse of my surreal experience in the South of France.
Baguette
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