Monday, November 26, 2007

Pitch Black Afro




Here's Pitch Black Afro for his new cd sleeve. What a character!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Refugees





The Night Of 1000 Drawings time is upon us again and this year I wanted to do something different to last year as my contribution. I got to shoot a series of four studio portraits of a few of the refugees that stay at Paballo and help out with food and medication drop-offs for the inner city homeless. I wanted the portraits to be as simple and 'stripped-down' so to speak as possible. The four portraits will be on sale tonight to raise funds for Paballo and each guy I shot also got an edition. In order as they appear are; Bizwell Chembe (born 28 November 1961), Siphelele Manqindi (born 15 February 1983), Welcome Dlamini (born 15 September 1988) and Mduduzi Sibanda (born 18 April 1983)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

myepic





Bill Botes from Sheer asked me to do some promo shots for myepic for the release of their new ep. The last time I shot them was for their previous album, it's always a lot of fun... Here are a few from the shoot...

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Gregory Crewdson



I stumbled across a book by this guy when I was in Munich. There were a few other books I had my eye on in the store, but when I saw this guy's stuff, everything else went out the window and he became my new favourite. His use of cinematographic lighting and sets is remarkable. He's a genius! I also love his use of visual narrative and his scenes are almost like entire plots unfolding. He plays on paranormal scenes in surreal American environments. Inspired by the likes of William Eggleston, Walker Evans and Jeff Wall... I can't find an official site but here are a couple links and here, and if you can, get his book 'Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005'... It's amazing!

Alexander Koutny 2






Here are some more from Alexander Koutny's 'Temporal Folds' shoot...

Recycle



Here are a couple from the new issue of SL. The Green Issue. So, please recycle. Fitter, happier, more productive.

FHM



Here are another couple from an editorial I shot for FHM.