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Pictorial: “Retro Rogue”
for One Small Seed Magazine, South Africa

Firstly there is a super behind the scenes video of this shoot to watch here.

This fashion editorial was shot for the 21st Edition of One Small Seed magazine which was a South African made mag. I think it was a 2011 issue. The theme of the edition was future/retro and the editorial was called Retro Rogue. It was shot between 4 locations: in my studio, Rosey’s Laundry in Mowbray Cape Town, Banksia Boutique Hotel in Rosebank Cape Town and in some suburban streets in central Windhoek Namibia.

I think the end product was a 9 image series of which the magazine published all but one.

The above and below are shot in studio and placed into a different background (shot in Namibia).

Quite a few images in the series were made up of composites, either a background and a foreground were shot separately or you’ll see the models duplicated in the image like the above shot here.

The below are samples of the very rough beginnings of the deep etch of the studio shots.

And below are some of the tear outs from the mag.

Below left is the team who worked on the shoot minus one. Hair and makeup was by Sebastine Pepler and styling was by Alexia Klompje who has now gone on to become an incredible ceramicist, find her work “Klomp Ceramics” here).

Behind the scenes above and below.

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Sanctuary: The 2008 Xenophobic Attacks, Cape Town

Xenophobia: The intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

Sanctuary: A refuge, a haven, a retreat in times of trouble.

In 2008 many traumatised Zimbabwean nationals took refuge in a community church in Observatory, Cape Town. During the riots, more than 60 people died and many were left destitute and injured. I spent time getting to know many of these individuals and discussed their experiences as refugees in South Africa.

The church acted as a sanctuary for the families, many of which  were now widowed and with very young children. With thanks to their participation I documented a series of portraits of the mothers who were housed there. The church environment itself created a strange paradox: both a sacred place for communities to come together yet at this time it was for those rejected by their neighbours.

The series was documented on medium format B&W roll film shooting with a twin lens Mamiya C3.

 

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Pictorial: “Sentient Cool”
for Design Indaba Magazine, South Africa

I shot this story for the 2nd quarter issue of Design Indaba in 2010.  The basis for the props in this fashion story was that I had to have scouted and sourced them all from the Design Indaba Expo itself.

I presented the fashion editorial as a sort of catalogue – as the image above refers: ‘sex sells’.

Some behind the scenes shots from the two production days below.

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NEWBORN SHOOT with Hester, Lennox & Nordin at home

Newborn Shoot with Lennox at 3 weeks old. Ive been shooting with Hester over the last year and half capturing the first years of her first born, her second pregnancy, and the start of her second born, Lennox’s life.