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ARE WE RACIST – US AND THEM
While thinking about how the media deals with the projection of the face of AIDS in the print media, I have begun to wonder if we have become racist once again, this time it’s us and them, us we see...
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MODEL RELEASES – WHY BOTHER
I personally do not ask the people who I photograph, to sign a model release form for me. I have hardly ever even bothered to get a letter of consent signed, I couldn’t be assed, I don’t want to waste...
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THE PASSING OF MS FLY PART V
Absolute silence, there is nothing left. The bird bath has gone, it was taken by the care taker of the flats where Ms Fly once lived. He has installed it in his garden and the doves that once visited...
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IT’S A SIMPLE TASK
Chokwe is a small town on the banks of the Limpopo River as it runs to the sea through Mozambique. There is mot much there bar an air strip and a small river, or more like a spring of crystal clear...
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AND IT ALL JUST GOES ON AND ON
No matter that what has happened these last few weeks has changed my life in ways that I can never turn back from. The time to blog has just been not there. Not to mention that the state of my Mac has...
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FIRE LIT
When we sit around the communal space, when we gather as we were always intended to do, that is as souls of a greater race, a together race, we can see our selves as the others gathered there will see...
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THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICES
Just who do you sit at the feet of and learn the ways of the world, and while there, who can you look back afterwards and say it was at the side of this bright soul that I learned what it is that I now...
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12 WEEKS LATER…
I am in the dark room, and I have no idea why I am here. The world is spinning and I am sitting on a stool and leaning up against the work surface and the body of a student. I hear the voices of the...
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I ALSO HAVE A “SMALL TUPPERWARE” COLLECTION ON MY DESK
what is so special about you that somebody out there will spend their hard-earned money on your photography…
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BRAINING AGAIN…
I went to classes at the university again this morning, my lobes are functioning in their own ways, as is now the fashion that I am getting used too… The left side is absorbing the material presented...
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SOUTH BEACH
John Robinson is a social documentary photographer and stroke survivor living in South Africa, these are his own words and images. South Beach is a part of the City of Durban’s longest uninterrupted...
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FILLING A MAN’S SHOES
Jika Joe is a shanty town in the middle of the City of Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, it is a place of narrow pathways between homes that butt up against one another, people live here to be close...
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JIKA JOE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT
Jika Joe is an informal settlement in the heart of the city of Pietermaritzburg. The people in this community built their homes here to be close to jobs in the city. The area has been plagued with...
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