You couldn't trick anyone.

He wants to sleep in a city that never wakes up, blinded by nostalgia.

This is an art project I shot for a friend, Sarah Akerman, my red red wine buddy.

The World Spins Madly On!

I'm Wide Awake Now.

I got the incredible opportunity recently to shoot for UK charity, SOS Africa, in Mafikeng. I spent three days in their lives and I can't wait to go back. Hoping for change. Hoping for a difference. Hoping for adventure. Have a look at what SOS Africa is about: sosafrica.com

With You In My Head

It's no cause for Concern

I like experimenting. These are a couple of shots that actually came out on my first roll of film i shot on my Rollei. Only about half the frames came out - i'm still getting to know how this lovely little contraption works. I shot on expired slide so i was really impressed that anything came out at all! More shooting of this kind is a definite. 

A weekend away with friends is beautiful. 

In Exile

I am in exile, a sojourner

A citizen of some other place

All I've seen is just a glimmer in a shadowy mirror

But I know, one day we'll see face to face

I am a nomad, a wanderer

I have nowhere to lay my head down

There's no point in putting roots too deep when I'm moving on

Not settling for this unsettling town

My heart is filled with songs of forever

The city that endures when all is made new

I know I don't belong here, I'll never

Call this place my home, I'm just passing through

I am a pilgrim, a voyager

I won't rest until my lips touch the shore

Of the land that I've been longing for as long as I've lived

Where they'll be no pain or tears anymore

My heart is filled with songs of forever

The city that endures when all is made new

I know I don't belong here, I'll never

Call this place my home, I'm just passing through

Bigger Than Us

This Must Be The Place

I wanna hold your hand.

One of the most beautiful weddings I have ever been part of. Amazing couple. Miss you kids so much.

Type of cyan.

This is a cyanotype print i made last year. It's an old photo printing process developed by Sir John Herschel in 1842. You print a negative onto transparency and paint a piece of absorbant paper with a mildly photosensitive chemical solution (in the dark). When it's dry, you fasten the negative transparency onto the paper and take into the sunlight to expose. The sun is like a giant enlarger. Old processes are fun :)

Nothing is original.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak ...directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

— Jim Jarmusch

Isochronous

What a good day this was. Good music = Isochronous, good food = avo and chips rolls, good company = Ruan en Wikus.

Kidofdoom

Wikus het onder die boom gelê en slaap terwyl Kidofdoom hul sound check gedoen het.

Today was not an ordinary day.

This is what Van Morrison and I did one afternoon. This is what i see in my room. Physics and optical laws and 20 black bags equals magic on my wall. I have an upside down view of what's outside. This is how it all started! I might have to take it all down soon.  

Gossamer Wings.

Delicate things, monstrous up close.

You Were Late.

'Spider' seems too ordinary and simple a word when addressing this one. He looks angry, like you've kept him waiting. It looked like he might spring to life any moment while i was shooting him.

Kay's Park.

Tannie Anet knows everything about everyone living in Kay's park.

Civil Twilight.

Today is quiet in my town.

Today has been okay.

Model: Chantel van Tonder