From The Goal-Mouth Into The Unknown

I've just got back from a trip overseas, I went for my best friends' wedding and after completing a rather unplanned speech and enjoying a quick jog on the football field just outside of Bath with the newly weds, I headed into the unknown territory of Germany and Switzerland for a bit of a break... I read a quote a while ago from someone whose name eludes me right now that 'The unfamiliar heightens creative awareness'. At home I see portraits, away I see the details and almost leave the subject anonymous... I don't know why this is or really what I'm rambling about! But here are some pics...

En Nou In Die Nuus...

We (Injozi) were recently featured on Futurespace, go check out the interview if you want (here) Thanks so much to Jarrad Nelson from Future Space for asking us to do it... Also, I'm gonna be exhibiting in a group exhibition called And Then It's happening on the 7th at the Lister Medical Centre on Bree Street... Here's a flyer and one of the images i've been working on for the exhibition... Come and check it out, there's gonna be some rad artists and it should be fun! Yeah!

A Sunday Afternoon At Humanoid

One sunday after retouching pics and watching the familia dvd...

Glass Bead Game

So, here's a new band... They're called Glass Bead Game and they're great! A bit of the old EvenFlow and a bit of the old 3 Weeks Anaemic... Go check them out on myspace (here) This was a shoot for a press pack for them...

The End

After all the beer has been consumed, the bands have played, the people have gone to bed and all is left is the mist, a back lit tree, the distant sound of a drumming circle and a few drunken stragglers stumbling around in the mud. First visit to Splashy Fen and while not photgraphing any of the bands this time decided to capture 'the end' of the proceedings... What an amazing few days... Thanks Jules, Ruby, Mark, Jono and Lucy!

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Last Sunday, I took a drive out into Mpumalanga with my good friend Nick, to meet a man named Tlokwe and photograph a traditional healers' band called Phuti Ya Bokone. It was scorching, there were at least 2000 people in someone's backyard, the band was about 80 strong, we were lying on manure and it was the most amazing experience of my life. Thanks Tlokwe. And the 39310 is what my odometer read the entire two and a half hour drive.

New Work Continued...

Here's some work from various shoots, some album cover stuff, some live stuff and some other stuff...

A Whole Bunch Of New Stuff

I tried to upload some new stuff but it isn't working, so here's a rad quote by Alec Soth:

"Photographing people, with or without permission, usually leads to all sorts of ethical dilemmas. It is unavoidable. I do my best to be good. I ask permission. I'm honest about how I use the pictures and send everyone I photograph a print. But the truth is that when I take a picture of a person I am 'using' that person. They are becoming material for my work and I'm turning them into an object, a piece of paper, that is a commodity. It is all troubling. All I can say is that on the long list of ethical crimes a misdemeanors, photographing people in the name of art isn't the worst violation."