SNAP II

So this week a bunch of photographers and I had an exhibition at Platform on 18th gallery in Rietondale. It was a follow up to SNAP, so we called it SNAP II. Here's the shots that I exhibited. It's running till the 24th of July 2010.
The first shot is the flyer and then the rest of the work is mine.

Brandwag Hotel - Golden Gate Park

Last Friday i delivered 25 prints to Brandwag Hotel in Golden Gate park.
I shot art for the walls of their Dining room and a lot of the bedrooms. I think some of the work is also goijng to hand in their conference rooms or places like that.

Here's a couple of examples.

Fulka

hey, here's some shots that i did for Fulka. I think Fulka means folk, as in folk music, in polish.
My friend Ola is polish and her folk music is awesome. Yes, awesome! there's no way to describe it.
I'll find out from her where you can download some tunes and then you can listen to her sweet sounds yourself.

later.

All is peaChy!!

Hey, finally Peach posted the shots i took of him on his Facebook page, so now it's time for me to post. Yesterdays Pupil is launching the album soon, and these shots are for that.

On the street

Some of you have heard about the project that i have been shooting with homeless guy Johan Theart. Well the project with him has turned into so much more than expected. Firstly Johan, who has been on the street for 8 years, is not homeless any more. A church called Westview Methodist Church decided to take him under their wing and gave him a place to stay. He is also working for them and sorting out his life at the same time. It is insane how much someone can change if given the opportunity. Well the project turned into something that started encompassing the whole neighborhood and with up to 200 homeless people sleeping in Wierdapark every night, i have started taking pics of other people as well. Here are two pics. One of Johan and another shot. As Johan changes i will keep shooting with him an hope to bring you a whole series some day in the future.

Surfs Up

The next issue of Wegbreek magazine has hit the shelves and here are some shots of a story i did with journalist Carie Maas. we were taught how to surf by Hugh Thompson, ex-circuit surfer, and owner of African Surf Rider magazine(seen on the tip of his longboard in one of the shots). he and Shaun Hague had their hands full with me and Carie trying to learn the skills. like all work i do for Wegbreek it was a lot of fun and the people we met like, Shaun, Hugh and Kim of Vulamanzi made me love the job even more. (all images copyrighted to Wegbreek magazine)

Cut, Snip, Fit - Taylor

So it's been a hard days night and and i've been shooting like a dog (that's a but overdramatic but it's been busy). It's all been feeling like work, but this morning i shot with Mel, lead singer of Taylor, and all made sense again. She's a tokyo star, singer, word poet, a voice and a whole lot a laughter. Dankie Mel.

Tuks Rag

So Alet, Waldo and Michel Bega (he'll be shooting for the Citizen soon) and me shot Tuks Rag. It was like every year - drunk students and music. Two thing however were different. For one i started feeling my age this year. It was like i couldn't associate with students like i always do. Two, there was no mud. Must be global warming or something, 'cause the usual mud-party didn't go on.

International act OK GO played, but to me the ZA music was much better. One of our group of photographers commented that if they have to shoot Parlortones again they'll vomit, i felt much the same. But then when Parlortones started we all kinda started shooting and loved their music. What is it that makes us always like them?

Fokofpolisiekar were the main act and i think that there were 10 000+ people that watched them. I couldn't get any nice shots of them, partly because i was shooting pics of security trying to stop the barriers from breaking. You could hear the screws pop every now and then. Security were really straining. And that was it, we photographers left before the end 'cause we wanted to miss all the drunken traffic. So that's it. Music and drunk students. Some things never change. (p.s. All these shots belong to Beeld, so hands off!)