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SAFFER eZine features Steve Newman

SAFFER eZine features Steve Newman Just recently SAFFER eZine has started publishing a series featuring photography from the Lost Years Project archive. The first story – published in the August issue – features guitarist Steve Newman. I am immensely grateful to Vossie Vosse – SAFFERS’ editor – for expressing an interest in my photography and…

November 18, 2020 @ 21:14

Commercial snoek fishing in South Africa

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning I’ve used this quote and title elsewhere before. It’s the title to Laurie Lee’s semantic work of the same title, a fine book about coming of age. The image accompanying this piece comes from a body of work that seems to have garnered some interest – this according…

January 30, 2020 @ 21:22

Something about a place

Something About a Place William Eggleston Many years ago I “bumped” into William Eggleston. Yes, that one, the man from Memphis. The man who photographs ceilings, objects lying around a yard and, other obscure sorts of things – all in colour. I met him of course, but didn’t know it at the time.

November 28, 2018 @ 11:48

Something of a “soft launch”…

Something of a “soft launch” Other than being the first real post on a new site, this is also something of an “experiment”. An “experiment” in a sense to test and to see if everything has come together as expected. Just the way it goes. Doing something on a test server is not always doing…

November 28, 2018 @ 11:48

The Inane…

…and the inept While viewing some of my work, someone was once given to say, “Why do you persist in shooting this shit when you could be shooting the rich and famous”? I was a little too gobsmacked to respond to this comment then and there and this, in a timely fashion.

November 28, 2018 @ 11:49

The Story From Here

The Story From Here This image is perhaps my most famous. Yes, truly. But, I may need to qualify this and perhaps explain the “most famous” part. As far as I can recall, this image has never been published, publicly shown or even printed for that matter – this in a commercial sense.

November 28, 2018 @ 11:47

Where in the world is this…

Where in the world is this?

November 28, 2018 @ 11:46

Smithfield Market – nothing like airing some historic work

SMITHFIELD MARKET – nothing like airing some historic work This body of work – my photo essay on Smithfield Market – has been sitting in my archive for sometime now. Every now and then, something comes up prompting me to bring out the work and to give it an “airing”. Currently there’s a debate going…

November 28, 2018 @ 11:46

Shanghai – 1994

SHANGHAI – 1994 While so much has changed in Shanghai between then and now, not much has changed at all, this in many respects.

November 28, 2018 @ 11:45

China – twenty years on

CHINA – TWENTY YEARS ON I’m finding it a little difficult in getting my head around this one – as in comprehending that it’s been this long. I first stepped into China almost 20 years to the day. Well, in April of 1994 to be exact.

November 28, 2018 @ 11:48