In the land of contradictions, black is actually white and the next day white is meant to be black. Pink pigs grovel in the mud beneath the nations dream rainbows and then waddle back to their sty a red-brown colour. They can also be an ochre-brown or a brownie-brown —- all depends on the colour …
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The Three Ducks
I was tortured as a baby. My mother, born German and a strict disciplinarian, indoctrinated me from birth that there is nothing to laugh about in life. That’s the funny part of my beginnings as a human being. But, I lie. I lie because after being in the world for a mere 3 months, I …
The Great White
The Great White Shark. Natures Valley. South Africa. 2016 _______________________________________________________________________ The pallet that I hold in front of my canvas of journeys has on its surface a painterly collection of characters and places. What I paint on that canvas is a small aspect of my attempts to enlarge and capture pictorially, the greater essence …
The Inside Man (Die Binneman) – Julius van der Wat
Incredible story of 37-year-old Julius van der Wat who lives his life in Jozi’s beautiful Valley Road. Is there a standardized normality in the society that we live in? ‘Yes and no’ – is the broad answer and in that lies the abnormality of normality.” Sometimes during the setting of the Blue moon and the …
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Views on Africa
On the occasion the Cologne Photoszene Festivals Photokina laif Agentur für Photos & Reportagen will show the works of six multiple awarded photographers represented by laif – covering different thematic and photographic approaches to the topic “Africa” in the Art Spaces of the Michael Horbach Foundation in the exhibition Views on Africa. Per-Anders Pettersson, Jan Grarup, …